![]() ![]() I'd be happy to sell you the drive and cable. Unfortunately, somewhere along the way, something got damaged (probably the disk) because I never was able to read the files. ![]() I ended up having to build an old tower computer, find the right ribbon cable that allowed the atari-cart-like interface the 5 1/4" floppy drives had and an actual old heavy floppy drive. I made sure the PCs drive was still functional by using Winimage to burn(?) and then create/read another image off of a new floppy disk and compared the 2 images to make sure they were identical.Ī few years back I was asked to recover some data off a 5 1/4" disk for a customer. Then as mentioned above use the imgmount command with the option -t floppy If any of the disks have copy protection, the image files will retain their functionality that way. The most commonly used software for that is Winimage. It bears repeating that it's unsafe to mount one's entire drive into DOSBox, particularly if another OS is already installed on it. IMA format on a windows machine first (after vacuuming/blowing out the dust on it's floppy drive). 1 Mounting a C: drive 1.1 Windows 1.2 Linux 1.3 Mac OSX 1.4 BeOS 1.5 OS/2 Mounting a C: drive More details on Mounting Drives may refer to Mount a Drive topic. ![]() ![]() What I'd do myself (and have done) is back them up to. They're common and cheap enough it's worth a shot. Then again, the usb drive might work excellently. I've had a lot of difficulty using Mac format floppy disks on my windows machines before, and had to use software specially made to interface with my floppy drive. Here’s a shortcut: Open up the dosbox.I don't know about using a USB floppy drive on a Mac machine. You’ll have to remount the proper directory every time you start DOSBox, which can become a pain if you’re just running the same programs over and over again. For example, if you have a copy of Duke Nukem 3D on your hard drive in the folder C:DOSGAMESDUKE3D, you can play the game by typing cd duke3d to move to the folder and then typing the name of the executable (in this case, duke3d) to run the game. CD stands for “change directory,” and you can use it to navigate to any directory on your hard drive. This action will put you in the C: drive (which is actually C:DOSGAMES), and from there you can navigate to any of your game directories by typing cd followed by the folder name. To get to your new C: drive (or any drive, for that matter), simply type c: at the Z: prompt. That tells DOSBox to treat the C:DOSGAMES folder as the root C: drive. Double-click the DOSBox executable in your Start menu, and when you see a black box with a Z: prompt, type the following command: mount c c:dosgames. To do that, you have to mount the DOSGAMES folder as a virtual hard drive. Since DOSBox emulates a self-contained version of DOS on your desktop, you need to fool it into thinking that your DOS game folder (C:DOSGAMES) is really your root C: drive. In the days of DOS, all files had to conform to an 8.3 naming strategy (eight characters before the period, three characters after), so for simplicity’s sake keep all your filenames at eight characters or less if you’ll be running them within DOSBox. Create a separate folder in the DOSGAMES directory for each game you want to play, but be sure to keep all filenames as short as possible. Install DOSBox anywhere you please, and then set up a specific folder for all your old DOS games with a short name that’s easy to remember, like C:DOSGAMES. Copy DOSBox.app into your desired directory, typically the Applications folder, but DOSBox can be run from any folder. If you’re not sure what to download, then download DOSBox for macOS from Sourceforge. Make sure to select the correct Mac OS X version. For the purposes of this guide, we’ll assume that you’re running Windows and must download the Windows-compatible DOSBox version 0.74. Download DOSBox from the developer’s website. Head over to the DOSBox download page and pick up a copy for your operating system of choice. The first step is to download a copy of DOSBox that will run on your machine. If you want to make your classic games run on a modern PC, you’ll have to become familiar with DOSBox, a fully configurable DOS PC emulator that is absolutely necessary for getting most pre-Windows XP games up and running. ![]()
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