use the .flp format with bfi and you must manually write the extension
like this
bfi -f=c:\mydisk.flp c:\dosgames\football
in vmware 4.0 your .flp image will be the a: drive or it should be a:.
On 12/24/2014 3:09 AM, Jacob Kruger wrote:
Using VMWare player 9.2, which works fine with rest of it, and got
floppy drive/image set to be available from power on, etc., but when
change to it in command line using b: - am assuming that's the right
drive for a second floppy drive - it tells me drive not ready, please
insert disk, etc.
Will try a few different formats in BFI, etc., and try assigning it to
original floppy drive, etc., but anyway - bit of a pity if can't take
this much further than just playing with dos and windows 3.1
themselves...LOL!
Might also try out an older version of VMWare player, but, really
don't think that's the issue - one question on that side of it -
VMWare player offers me both create and browse buttons with regards to
floppy images, but, when you select either option, it's still looking
for .flp files, but anyway..?
Stay well
Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
"Roger Wilco wants to welcome you...to the space janitor's closet..."
----- Original Message ----- From: "Josh k" <joshknnd1...@gmail.com>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2014 2:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] island game
you mount it before you boot the virtual machine, do you have vmware
player 4.0? you need 4.0. and you need to check the connected
checkbox and the connect at power on checkbox to make floppy work.
On 12/23/2014 2:27 AM, Jacob Kruger wrote:
Ok, created the .flp image of the original hobbit game's files, but,
if I either try mount it to the already included floppy disk piece
of virtual hardware, or try create another one inside virtual
machine, it keeps telling me disk/drive not ready from command line
when virtual machine is running..?
Do you just reassign the already included floppy disk to use that
image file, do you tell it to connect at power up, or do you map it
into virtual machine another way?
TIA
Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
"Roger Wilco wants to welcome you...to the space janitor's closet..."
----- Original Message ----- From: "Josh k" <joshknnd1...@gmail.com>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2014 3:49 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] island game
first I used a free command line program called BFI floppy to turn
it into a floppy disk image file. I mounted it in the virtual
machine and it showed up as an a: drive then in dos with asap I typed
copy a:\island.exe c:\
and it coppied over into the vmware hard drive file system.
On 12/22/2014 5:15 PM, Jacob Kruger wrote:
How did you copy it across to VMWare file system?
Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
"Roger Wilco wants to welcome you...to the space janitor's closet..."
----- Original Message ----- From: "Josh k" <joshknnd1...@gmail.com>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2014 11:28 PM
Subject: [Audyssey] island game
hey i found an old dos game. just tested it and it works great.
its called island of mystery adventure. only thing I wish is that
this windows3.1 vm and virtual braille n speak server worked in
ubuntu linux.
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