Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1496755-20171111143841/@comment-3547390-20171111201032

Good tutorial, but I have run across a problem already. I decided I wanted to use the Switching method, it may be more of a pain, but I rather learn the way that is more compatible with everything in the future and thus becomes my standard practice for something like this.

First off, I am not familiar with imgmount and find it a bit confusing. Even when I mount iso files to DOSBox, I use a simple "mount" command, so I find it odd that we use imgmount in this instance.

For sake of simplicity, and since I know how DOSBox can be a pain with spaces in names, I have made a simple "XWing" folder on my D: drive to hold all 5 IMA images.

No surprise with "-t floppy", since I have used "-t cd" with Quake to get the music working since I have started recording that. It sounds logical to mount in the way done and based on target lines, felt normal to not include any separators. CTRL-F4 sounds simple enough to remember and one of important usage in the future.

So, all said and done, I end up with

imgmount a D:\XWing\XWING#1.IMA D:\XWing\XWING#2.IMA D:\XWing\XWING#3.IMA D:\XWing\XWING41.IMA D:\XWing\XWING#5.IMA -t floppy

Running Dosbox with the above line, I get the message "The image must be on a host or local drive."

mount a D:\XWing\XWING#1.IMA D:\XWing\XWING#2.IMA D:\XWing\XWING#3.IMA D:\XWing\XWING41.IMA D:\XWing\XWING#5.IMA -t floppy

As I don't know what imgmount does versus mount, I made it mount. I got the message "Drive A is mounted as PHYSFS directory \ in read-only". Note I have checked the files, they are not read-only as instructed at the beginning of the tutorial (they weren't to begin with).

mount d "D:\XWing" d: imgmount a "~\XWING#1.IMA" "~\XWING#2.IMA" "~\XWING#3.IMA" "~\XWING#4.IMA" "~\XWING#5.IMA" -t floppy

I tried mounting the D: drive in the hope that it needed to do that first. Now image file cannot be found, regardless if I use "D:\", "~", or the full filepath name.

mount d "D:\XWing" d: imgmount a XWING#1.IMA XWING#2.IMA XWING#3.IMA XWING#4.IMA XWING#5.IMA -t floppy

So I got rid of the "~". Now it mounts. But then nothing happens. Switching to A:, trying to run XWing#1.IMA. Nothing. CTRL-F4 also doesn't work to start the first disk.

mount d "D:\XWing" d: imgmount a XWING#1.IMA XWING#2.IMA XWING#3.IMA XWING#4.IMA XWING#5.IMA -t floppy a: INSTALL So I took a guess and assumed there was a file in the .IMA file called INSTALL. My hunch turned out to be correct. So I have Operating System at 5.00, Machine Speed at SLOW, Graphics Card at VGA, Sound Card as SoundBlaster Pro, 633K memory is present, 4.00 EMS Memory is the version and has 896K available for X-Wing.

Sound is working, game is loading to Lucasarts logo. All systems go.

Also, the website you gave is quite nice indeed, very useful for old-school DOS titles. Though it isn't perfect, seeing Quake I tried out the file there, only to find out it was WinQuake instead of the classic DOS based 1.01.