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dosbox and floppy disks

MrsBBCMrsBBC
edited September 2010 in General Chat
I have recently begun using dos box and have so far played, ecoquest from cd, and amaze/insanity from c:\

I have been contemplating purchasing a portable usb floppy disk drive to play some of my older floppy games such as wonderland, legend of kyrandia, and secret of monkey island.

Can i just load the usb/floppy onto dos box in the same way as the cd drive?...

Comments

  • smashingsmashing
    edited July 2009
    It shouldn't be a problem. You can mount whatever drive on dosbox, as long as your operating system acknowledge the drive.

    More importantly, you should really just backup all those floppy into a hardisk or thumbdrive. Floppy won't last forever.
  • corruptbigginscorruptbiggins
    edited July 2009
    yup, easier than mounting a cd drive - just add ' mount a a:\ ' to the config file, that is if your floppy drive is assigned to a
  • MrsBBCMrsBBC
    edited September 2009
    I never said thank you, how rude,
    cheers guys,

    nic
  • ArmakuniArmakuni
    edited September 2009
    Do you need to press CTRL+F4 when you switch floppies, like with CDs?
    I can't remember, but I think you do.
  • MusicallyInspiredMusicallyInspired
    edited September 2009
    No. You don't even need to do that to CDs. Just open the tray put another one in. DOSBox is smart enough to know the difference.
  • ArmakuniArmakuni
    edited September 2009
    Is that new? I had to press CTRL+F4 when I recorded the GK2 longplay some time ago (I used CD images, though... maybe that's why? I never use my original discs).
  • MusicallyInspiredMusicallyInspired
    edited September 2009
    Oh, for images yes. They're talking about actual physical floppy disks, though.
  • ArmakuniArmakuni
    edited September 2009
    Yeah... I didn't know you only had to do that with images.
  • adventureaddictadventureaddict
    edited September 2009
    MrsBBC wrote: »
    ecoquest from cd, wonderland, legend of kyrandia, and secret of monkey island.

    Who are you and what are you doing with my games library?!
    ...
    *needs to fire up Ecoquest 2 again*
  • carvwacarvwa
    edited September 2010
    I read something about having to press ctrl+f4 for images. Thank goodness for whom ever posted that. I was having a terrible time getting dosbox to re-read the usb floppy's. The trick was the same as images, ctrl+f4 refreshes the data and you can proceed.

    I hope that helps someone else struggling to find a similar issue.
  • JedExodusJedExodus
    edited September 2010
    To be honest i'd just download the files as opposed to buying a floppy drive to copy them. It's morally sound as far as i'm concerned
  • FoxhackFoxhack
    edited September 2010
    Or you could use your USB drive and make floppy drive images out of your disks. That's what I do, whenever possible.
  • roberttitusroberttitus
    edited September 2010
    Well since this is about Dosbox I might as well go ahead & ask a question about it here....

    How the hell do you work it!?

    You can get the first two Elder scrolls games for free on the offical website, but you have to use Dosbox.... Problem is that I can't figure it out.
  • xbskidxbskid
    edited September 2010
    JedExodus wrote: »
    To be honest i'd just download the files as opposed to buying a floppy drive to copy them. It's morally sound as far as i'm concerned

    While I, too, have no problem doing that*, the issue is that those copies on the internet are unauthorized reproductions of their sources, and that's what makes them illegal. Whether or not you own the real deal would be irrelevant to whomever would like to sue you. :)


    On the flip side, if the original poster does get around to getting his/her own floppy drive, you may be interested in RawWrite for backing up your floppies.
  • taumeltaumel
    edited September 2010
    I still have plenty of floppies, 5.25 and 3.5, one contains my diploma thesis. Thinking about it, i forgot which one it was...oh well.
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