Dosbox CD swapping

[Tijn]

#12277

If you somehow happen to find yourself with six image files, one for each CD-ROM this game was shipped on back in the day, you might be wondering how to get that to work.

Turns out Dosbox supports mounting several image files to a single drive letter in a single command.

The command to make this work looks like this (assuming you have cue/bin images), where “disc1.cue” etc are the file names of your images:

imgmount d disc1.cue disc2.cue disc3.cue -t iso -fs iso

If you have .iso images, it works the same, but you can leave off the “-fs iso” part in the end.

Once you’ve loaded in all your images, you can press ctrl+f4 to swap between them. Works perfectly for a multi-CD game like Pandora Directive!

[Pix]

#12279

There is a better option actually. Pandora Directive supports multiple CD drives and you can assign each disk to it’s own drive eliminating the need for any swapping at all.

[firefyte]

#12280

Ever since this was a thing in UAKM, I’ve always wanted a switcher (I had two CD drives, and actually used both when I replayed UAKM and overseer)

[Tijn]

#12281

Oh wow, all the discs at once. It’s amazing Pandora Directive supports this. I can’t imagine anyone back in the day actually having six CD-ROM drives going at once haha

[Loomattic90]

#12292

Is there any french version patch to get french captions (F5) ?

[Tijn]

#12294

I don’t know the answer to this question, but I’ve made a thread for it here, so perhaps someone else can answer: https://www.dosgameclub.com/forums/topic/translations/

[Loomattic90]

#12304

Thanks tijn ! Dosbox-x CD swap on linux is F12+D ^^ for those who use this doxbox version… I am improving my dosbox skills everyday with this variety of games i try to boot