#How to load w95.img into dosbox install#
#How to load w95.img into dosbox free#

160K, 180K and 320K disks are usually copy protected. The size of the files should be able to tell you what kind of disk is being used. 3.5' double density disks only have a hole on one side of the disk while 3.5' high density disks have a hole on either side of the disk. Remember that 5.25' double density disks have a hub ring and a rust brown color to the recording media while 5.25' high density disks have no hub ring and a shiny black finish on the recording media. Regular disk images are sector dumps and will dump all the formatted sectors on a disk, whether there is anything in the sectors or not.

Hopefully the images will not contained damaged files, but a disk imaging program should be able to report any errors.ДЄlways dump a disk to its right size. Fortunately, this is almost never a problem with games that were released on high density floppy disks, since no game (except for Lemmings 2 : The Tribes) released on high density floppies is known to use disk based protection. Winimage and other simple disk imaging utilities only understands what DOS understands, so you will not be able to make useful backup copies of any game with disk-based floppy protection.

If you read original floppy disks in a Windows machine, you should enable write protection on the disks otherwise Windows will make (usually harmless) changes to the first sector of a disk.

#How to load w95.img into dosbox free#

On older hardware, I use a free program called img2dsk.

#How to load w95.img into dosbox install#

Floppy disks should be preserved, so I would always first image the disk, then install it.ДЄ program like Winimage works for unprotected DOS-readable floppy disks, and the resulting image files have a. Of course, you can mount a physical floppy disk drive directly with DOSBox, but relatively few people have floppy drives connected to modern systems these days. If you have floppy disks, your first task should be to make floppy disk images.

In this entry I will describe the ways DOSBox can install games off floppy 'disks'. One of its lesser-acknowledged strengths is its ability to install games from floppy disks, or more usually, from floppy disk images. DOSBox can play just about any DOS game, and can certainly play all the widely-known classic games. Usually I do not write specifically about DOSBox because my main interest is real hardware, but DOSBox is an invaluable tool for anyone into retro-PC DOS gaming.