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    • rockaddicted
      rockaddicted last edited by

      @voljega no problem, take your time 😉 Thank you.

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      • voljega
        voljega Banned @rockaddicted last edited by voljega

        @rockaddicted

        @Dragu @Cthulhus feel free to complete it 🙂

        https://github.com/recalbox/recalbox-os/wiki/How-to-use-DOSBox-to-emulate-DOS-games

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        • rockaddicted
          rockaddicted @voljega last edited by

          @voljega great thank, I'll read that this weekend

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          • voljega
            voljega Banned @voljega last edited by voljega

            J'ai rajouté un nouveau 'bug' : si on monte un cd en cue avec le bin associé dont le nom n'est pas dos-compatible le cd n'est pas détecté, il faut renommer cue,bin et intérieur du bin et c'est putain de strict, même les majuscules il n'aime pas alors qu'il devrait s'en foutre....

            'bug' dans le sens où oui MSDOS pur ne sait pas gérer ce genre de nom mais ça marche sous Windows avec la même version de DOsbox, la 0.74.
            Après elle est ptet modifiée manuellement cette version DOSBOX pour gérer ça je sais pas

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            • voljega
              voljega Banned @voljega last edited by voljega

              Feels weird playing old games like Colonization or One Must Fall 2097 with music and sounds as my old 486 SX didn't have any card sound :))

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              • voljega
                voljega Banned @voljega last edited by voljega

                @Dragu @Cthulhus (continued in english to be readable by the greater number)

                So I've now tested around 500 games of the ExoDOS Collection (which not be as complete as I thought because Judge Dredd Pinball sure as hell ain't in it !) and I would say around 15% have troubles or are not working.

                By far the most common problem (70-80% of all games with problem) is the special mounting of directory as floppy or cd.

                In dosbox.bat any command like the following lines , despite path beeing correct always raises a "Directory not found error"

                mount a .\floppy\ -t floppy
                

                or

                mount d .\cd\ -t cdrom
                

                I didn't try in dosbox.cfg to see if it was working and trying with imgmount returns a "Use mount instead" error
                Those commands come straight from ExoDOS collection and works under windows with the same dosbox version (embedded in exodos)

                Any idea ?

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                • Dragu
                  Dragu Banned last edited by

                  @voljega
                  Its silly question and I dont know if something will change, but do you already tried with slash instead of backslash ?

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                  • voljega
                    voljega Banned @Dragu last edited by

                    @dragu no lol i'll try next time i encounter one

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                    • Dragu
                      Dragu Banned last edited by

                      @voljega
                      I just tried it out on my files, and imgmount was not working with backslash as he expect linux notifcations.

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                      • voljega
                        voljega Banned @Dragu last edited by

                        @dragu hmmm whaaaat ? All my imgmount use backlashes ( \ right ?) without problems

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                        • Dragu
                          Dragu Banned last edited by

                          @voljega
                          I used
                          imgmount d "\recalbox\share\roms\dos\judgepb.pc\JUDGEPB.CUE" -t iso
                          instead of
                          imgmount d "/recalbox/share/roms/dos/judgepb.pc/JUDGEPB.CUE" -t iso
                          and he didnt found the CD.
                          Still some mistery for me behind dosbox. 😉

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                          • voljega
                            voljega Banned @Dragu last edited by voljega

                            @dragu oh yeah but you're using full path so that seems logical at least.

                            Was it in dosbox.bat or dosbox.cfg ?

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                            • Dragu
                              Dragu Banned last edited by

                              @voljega
                              In dosbox.cfg

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                              • voljega
                                voljega Banned @Dragu last edited by

                                @dragu ok well dosbox.cfg seems less picky anyway than dosbox.bat which only accept true dos filenames

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                                • Dragu
                                  Dragu Banned last edited by Dragu

                                  In your story, could you work with variables with pathname inside such as %abc%\floppy\ ?

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                                  • voljega
                                    voljega Banned @Dragu last edited by

                                    @dragu Hmmm I'm not sure at all I should try maybe

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                                    • voljega
                                      voljega Banned @Dragu last edited by voljega

                                      @dragu It does work in dosbox.bat using full path and quote :

                                      mount a "/recalbox/share/roms/dos/Strategy-Gestion/fieldglo.pc/floppy/" -t floppy
                                      

                                      Not my favorite solution though

                                      And then it should work with "./floppy/" or even c:\floppy but I guess at that point in launching (dosbox.bat) the "." is set only for the dos filesystem and not the linux one.

                                      No idea why .\floppy\ or c:\floppy\ doesn't work when it is well interpreted for the imgmount command

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                                      • Dragu
                                        Dragu Banned last edited by Dragu

                                        @voljega
                                        Perhaps you could try something like this

                                        set rpath = "/recalbox/share/roms/dos/Strategy-Gestion/fieldglo.pc"
                                        mount a %rpath%/floppy/ -t floppy
                                        

                                        I am not sure if I made no error and if it is functioning under dosbox. 🙂

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                                        • voljega
                                          voljega Banned @Dragu last edited by voljega

                                          @dragu still doesn't change the fact that the full absolute path is embedded in the conf 😉
                                          and so entirely dependent of recalbox and the game path

                                          Ok by perusing dosbox documentation, mount indeed only uses paths from the local filesystem whereas imgmount is capable of using both local filesystem and virtual dosbox path so i guess relative path with the mount command won't be possible anyway

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                                          • Cthulhus
                                            Cthulhus last edited by

                                            why you don't use "my" methode ?

                                            for exemple, in the 2CDs game Lighthouse from Sierra, I don't use a dosbox.cfg and only the dosbox.bat and here its content :

                                            IMGMOUNT d .\Light-1.iso .\Light-2.iso -t iso
                                            cd SIERRA
                                            cd LIGHTDOS
                                            LIGHT.BAT

                                            One file with all what I need... it's more easy when you want to add many DOS games in row. 😉

                                            in your case :
                                            mount a .\floppy -t floppy

                                            But I never mount a folder as a hard/floppy drive with this "silly" method... I use this for more simple fast stuff...

                                            C'était mieux avant :-)

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