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Cd switch issue

Hello all

Win xp, dosbox 0.65, and UAKM

When it's time to put in the new CD, it gives the prompt, I comply, and it doesn't recognize that the new CD has been put in. I can click "OK" till the cows come home and the prompt won't go away. I tried to mount the CDs on my hard drive using the "-t cdrom" command in dosbox, and it reads it as the drive in dosbox, but it still won't trick UAKM - even after I set the config in UAKM to see the cds that way.

Any clues?
In the DOSBox Conf file scroll down to the bottom line - [autoexec] - and set your drives exactly as listed below, substituting your drive letters for the D and E, if different.

[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.
mount D D:\ -t cdrom -usecd 0 -ioctl
mount E E:\ -t cdrom -usecd 0 -ioctl
mount C C:\
C:

Nilo
Nilo

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Email - [email protected]
Doesn't dumping all the *AP files into the game folder (http://www.unofficialtexmurphy.com/phpb ... .php?t=247 post no.5) work for you?
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Thanks for showing me that thread. I posted a question there as I didn't understand how that worked.

I didn't try the "0 -ioctl" bit because I didn't know what it meant and didn't want to mess anything up. The dosbox faq didn't really say what it meant. Also, should the "0" be replace with consecutive numbers or something? Say I was mounting 4 drives, should it be 0 - 3?
I answered your question in the 'No CD Key?' thread. Look at the latest post there I made today.

There is no need to mount any disc images once you copy all *.AP data files from all discs into the game directory. You can leave the drive letter config alone. Just load it up without any CDs and it'll work fine.

...or my name ISN'T i'm_melting_i'm_melting.
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lol ok, thanks - didn't kno there were that many .ap files!

:)
I would suggest that you take the advice of i'm_melting_i'm_melting and use the .ap files, but if for some reason you should run into problems, and you want to mount your CD's, then see below:


Normally, your CD-ROM drive will be number 0, but you can use: 'mount -cd' from within DOSBox to determine the number. And if that doesn't work, then you'll need to specify input/output control.

So, your CD ROM drive will be "0", and the "ioctl" being the input/output control.

The "0" will remain "0" regardless of the number of drives you mount. See example below:

[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.
mount D D:\ -t cdrom -usecd 0 -ioctl
mount E E:\ -t cdrom -usecd 0 -ioctl
mount F F:\ -t cdrom -usecd 0 -ioctl
mount G G:\ -t cdrom -usecd 0 -ioctl
mount C C:\
C:

Nilo
Nilo

Website - http://home.wideopenwest.com/~hbech/

Email - [email protected]
thanks! the .ap thing worked! Much easier than swapping cds in and out....
Well done. :) Case closed.
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