[0nyx175]

Hi guys.

I've tried everything and searched high and low and cannot come up with a solution. I am trying to mount a drive on my playbook. Here is my file structure

• Books
• Camera
• Documents
• Downloads
• Misc (contains android and dosbox)
• Music (contains media sync)
• Photos
• Print
• Videos
• Voice

I'm trying to mount a drive in dosbox but having no luck. I've put theme hospital in a folder called "theme" in the dosbox folder. Can anyone suggest what i need to type to load a drive? For example it suggests typing "mount c ~/dosprogrogs" but when i do this it says

directory //accounts/1000/appdata/a7omicapps.dosbox.gYaBgPLVPiKWfaMVQ8fm4FcArVg/data/dosprogs doesn't exist

[DAnklaud]

try this:

type- mount c /accounts/1000/shared/misc/dosbox --hit enter
then:
type- c:/ --hit enter
then:
type- cd theme --hit enter
then:
type the name of the game --hit enter again

[0nyx175]

aha fantastic - do i have to do that every time?

[GreyGhostRos]

Well..I don't know if it works on the Playbook port of Dosbox (i don't see why it shouldn't though)
Try this:
open up the dosbox.conf file and add the mount line (and anything else you want Dosbox to do at startup..) to the [autoexec] section in it.. The file should be under /misc/dosbox/
Should work i guess..

[DAnklaud]

An example (if you change the .txt to .conf it will work ,this is the one from my playbook)

but i made it so it auto-mounts my C-folder in the misc folder,just change the c to dosbox at the end of the text

[FF22]

It does work. Here's mine which mounts and runs the LIST program:


[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.
# You can put your MOUNT lines here.

mount c /accounts/1000/shared
c:
cd misc
list

[sebecco]

Hello!

On my PB in the "books" folder I have subfolder with the program, unfortunately, I'm trying to mount c in this subfolder I get an error: "directory does not exist"

I type: mount c /books/subfolder

Please help, what to do? Is the program you want to launch the PB should upload to another directory ...?

[NoraMelua]

You have to mount the full path as shown by DAnklaud and F2.
The Playbook's media folders are subdirectories of /accounts/1000/shared/, thus the mount command should look like this in your case:

mount c /accounts/1000/shared/books/subfolder

[DoctorNeutron]

You have to mount the full path as shown by DAnklaud and F2.
The Playbook's media folders are subdirectories of /accounts/1000/shared/, thus the mount command should look like this in your case:

mount c /accounts/1000/shared/books/subfolder

I keep trying with no joy. Give an exact,explicit example. You all are typing
to DOSBOX directly, right? You are using THE virtual PB keyboard and not
an external BT keyboard, right? Doc Neutron

[FF22]

In my example, Post #6, I have the "mount" line in the autoexec file. That way it executes as dosbox loads. Then it actually, also runs the dos program LIST.

Try just using:

mount c /accounts/1000/shared

Then navigate further down by typing
c: (the drive specified by the MOUNT statement c above)
cd one-you-want (misc or documents or ....)

Do not place any extrnaeous colons : or / in the Mount statement. Keep lowercase.

[DoctorNeutron]

F2. TY. Got tone this am directly from virtual KYBD with abbreviated command line.
Could swear I tried similar yesterday. Oh well. Again, TY. Doc Neutron

[DoctorNeutron]

More mechanics problems: (1) how to edit files from within dosbox, (2) type tilde character, (3) find DOSBOX in misc -
none of Air Browser My File Manager, or dosbox sees anything in misc except Android and a pdf. Doc Neutron
Aka The Tar Baby

[FF22]

More mechanics problems: (1) how to edit files from within dosbox, (2) type tilde character, (3) find DOSBOX in misc -
none of Air Browser My File Manager, or dosbox sees anything in misc except Android and a pdf. Doc Neutron
Aka The Tar Baby

What kind of editing? I just used an old dos program called Qedit. I was able to type.

Re: Tilde - I could not get that or most of the other special characters (Press the 123-Number key and then that key with the two dots, one blue for special characters) to type. I got the letter "q" for most of them including the Tilde.

I am not sure what Question 3 is about. I opened AirBrowser and can drill into the Misc folder. I see android, and dosbox and pdf (I created it) and TI (Texas Instruments calcs) in Misc. And in Doxbox I see 3 files including

dosbox-0.74.conf
dosbox-0.74.org
dosbox-0.74mount.conf

Those are my additional files or saves, the org=original conf and the mount one is another example I saved.

I have to say, I am NOT a dosbox expert. There were a few old dos programs I wanted. Some folks have gotten old games and even early versions of Windows running in the emulations. There is an older doxbox thread in the apps subforum, I believe.

[DoctorNeutron]

I remember qedit (now) ! Found a dosbox related txt file in downloads. Tilde is
not a real problem if I just use Windows or AIR or what to rename files. Here is
a bottom line for me: got one of my old DOS programs to run ! Woot ! Of course,
similar programs will run only if they don't touch Windows. Now I am wondering
if a W95 install will let some of my other programs to run ! Doc Neutron

[FF22]

I still have a BIN folder on what is probably now my 5th version of Windows - some programs have never been duplicated well in the Windows environment but I use many of them less and less.

As a general non-gamer, that aspect of Doxbox is not one I've explored much. But others have gone to great extents to get their old favorites running from what I've read.

[DoctorNeutron]

Got a version of qedit loaded on c: which I had just mounted. When I then
edit z:/autoexec.bat to place a mount command there, it looks good but then
fails to save, reporting an open error. Is this because Doc has forgotten his
dos rubrics or is it because this file or z: is write-locked?

A BT KYBD is definitely a plus in this dos environment ! Doc Neutron

[FF22]

Where/what is Z: drive? If it is the topmost or root folder on your pb, I don't think you can write or add anything ot it.

My dosbox autoexec.bat file is located

\\192.168.1.164\media\misc\dosbox\autoexec.bat

[DoctorNeutron]

When I fire up Dosbox, it is at z:\, at which are many COM files and
autoexec.bat. (See attached.) Doc Neutron

[FF22]

Whoops, sorry.

My "autoexec.bat" file actually is contained within

dosbox-0.74.conf

But when I use the TYPE command on the autoexec.bat file YOU referenced above, it contains the info that I provided in that xxx.conf configuration file. Those files might be read-only??

Again, I'm far from a dosbox expert - so feeling me way through it!

edited for clarity.

[sebecco]

Thank you all for your help and attention. DosBox is launched.

I tried to run an old game from 1994 year (Little Big Adventure). The game has started, but I can not make a move on the menu - and I can not play ... (I think the reason is prosaic game is not ready for touch screens).

Regards
and once again thank you.

[Poncherelly]

I've written a basic bat file to do a couple of options and could of course be modified to list games instead of OSs but for some reason it doesn't work as expected. Anyone interested and reviewing and providing feedback?
@echo off
title please select an option

:Clean
cls

:Options
echo What would you like to run?
echo 1 DOS 6.22
echo 2 Windows 95
echo 3 Windows 98
echo 4 Windows XP
echo 5 Windows 7
echo 6 Back to DOSBox
echo 7 EXIT

:Select
set/p input=[Choose an OS]
if '%input%'=='1' goto a
if '%input%'=='2' goto b
if '%input%'=='3' goto f
if '%input%'=='4' goto f
if '%input%'=='5' goto f
if '%input%'=='6' goto g
if '%input%'=='7' goto h
echo please enter a number only
pause

:a
cd os
imgmount a d622.img
pause
boot d622.img
pause
goto Clean

:b
cd os
imgmount a w95.img
boot w95.img
pause
goto Clean

:c
cd OS
imgmount a w98.img
boot w98.img
pause
goto Clean

:d
cd OS
imgmount a xp.img
boot xp.img
pause
CLS
goto Clean

:e
cd OS
imgmount a 7.img
boot 7.img
pause
CLS
goto Clean

:f
echo I'm sorry, That version of Windows is still being worked on
pause
goto Clean

:g
Options.bat

:h
echo Thank you for using DOSBox with Windows ... have a great day
echo.
pause
exit

[jpash549]

Confusing to me. There are two apps in Blackberry World: DosBox and DOSBox. Which one is preferred?

[Poncherelly]

I have both installed but find DOSBox the one that allows me to modify the config code to launch my batch file.