does this mean that we will have to delete DOSBox and reinstall it every time our external drive letter changes? I apologize if I seem to be ranting, but I was thinking about what erossing said to start this thread. but that doesn't fix the problem for machines that can't have the same drive letter that was assigned when the DOSBox was first installed and run. Take your Windows installation disks and copy all of the data into a folder on your hard drive. The steps below detail the fastest and easiest way to run Windows 3.1 in DOSBox. Since most PCs no longer have floppy disk drives, you may need to find an old.
DOSBOX WINDOWS 3.1 MOUNT AS A DRIVE INSTALL
Remember, you must mount WINGAMES as the C: drive, not WINGAMESWINDOWS. Luckily for us, its actually possible to install Windows 3.1 in DOSBox.
PS I was able to reassign my drive letter to M:, and lo and behold it worked again. It doesn't emulate Windows 3.1, so you'll need a copy of Windows if you want to run Win16 games in DOSBox. Switching graphics modes, getting Windows 3.1 to use DOSBoxs SoundBlaster. If A: is your emulated drive, in DOSBox, you would use mount a a: -t floppy. Grey88 aka Major PITA, distant cousin to Royal PITA, and his son Minor PITA. First, in Windows you can use a program like Virtual Floppy Drive 2.1, which will mount a DOS-formatted disk image of any regular size and emulate one to two floppy drives.
DOSBOX WINDOWS 3.1 MOUNT AS A DRIVE DRIVER
With DOSBox-X, you can improve integration between the guest and host system by installing a special mouse driver that does require you to click in the Windows 3.11 window when returning to it, and does not require you to use Ctrl-Alt-F10 to release the. I couldn't find any config or ini files like I did with Firefox (which doesn't seem to have any problems with differing drive letters). Better mouse integration (64-bit Windows only) If you have 64-bit Windows, this system (by default) uses DOSBox-X, not the original DOSBox. It appears there is no way to refresh DOSBox portable so that the initial drive letter is not always the assumed drive. My drive was listed on my home computer as R. However, at home, DOSBox refused to automount \games and seems to require the drive letter. On this page I have an 'unpacked' Windows 3. my external hard drive was registered as drive M. MS-DOS and Windows 3.1 were originally distributed as floppy disks, so no CD-based installation is supported. Well, I ran DOSBox Portable on my computer at work, and it automounted C to \Games perfectly.