Solved Problems with DOSbox ...... What's with the Z zzzzz/

DAVEINCAPS November 29, 2020 at 00:22:56

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The Z: drive in dosbox is a virtual drive carved out of RAM from which you can run dos software. Some info here: https://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Drives I've never run dosbox so can't really be of much help but instructions there tell how to mount a folder/directory for use in dosbox. Hopefully that is of some help. If not, others will post in.

T-R-A November 29, 2020 at 05:38:27

"Maybe I should try FreeDOS" Not on your Win7 machine. You'd likely bork the Win7 install. FreeDOS is meant for machines without any OS installed on them. Realize that DOSBox is an emulator (virtual machine). It's not meant as a replacement for DOS, it just allows usage of a DOS-like environment on purely WindowsNT-based machines. If your ADMIR program won't run from the Command Prompt in Win7, use the "mount" command in DOSBox to access the directory and run the executable from there: mount c c:\ADMIR C: ADMIR.EXE (this assumes the files are in a directory named "ADMIR" and the executable file is ADMIR.EXE) "Channeling the spirit of jboy..." message edited by T-R-A

I have an old 4gb flash drive I can empty. Would it work on that ? Geez .... Wish my brain still worked :-(

T-R-A November 29, 2020 at 15:43:28

"I have an old 4gb flash drive I can empty. Would it work on that ?" Only if your machine could boot from it. And, not having worked with FreeDOS, I can't tell you what the limitations (such as maximum memory/drive-partition size), or how to set it up. Personally I'd try and get DOSBox working with the program before attempting that. "Channeling the spirit of jboy..." message edited by T-R-A