Yes, I am trying to find an MS-DOS version of what Teo
Zenios described in his June 28 reply (excerpted
below) to my original posting:
***** by Teo Zenios
Under Mac OS and Disk Copy 6.3.3 you can image any
number of disks that can then be double clicked and
show up on the desktop just like a real disk would
when inserted into the drive. This allows programs
with multiple disks to be imaged and then installed
directly from the images instead of having to be
converted back to a real disk and inserted one at a
time into the computer when it needed the next disk.
If there a program in dos (assuming you had enough
memory to work with) that did the same type of thing
you could install multi disk games and apps without
messing with real disks or hacking the files to the HD
or a CD. The process would allow you to put your
originals in a vault and never use them or a real
floppy disk again.
*****
I use an almost-vintage IBM ThinkPad 701 notebook (486
processor, 640x480 VGA display) for playing around
with my "old" MS-DOS stuff (late 80s and early 90s
vintage). Even using a 3.5" floppy requires an
external drive for the ThinkPad; reading a 5.25"
floppy requires that I drag out another system with
the proper drive and then transfer the disk contents
to a 3.5" floppy. I also worry about the future
reliability of these old floppy disks and drives.
Using disk images allows me to store away the original
floppies. If I could also mount the disk images so
they appear to MS-DOS as if there was actually a
floppy in an floppy drive, then I could entirely avoid
having to mess around with floppy drives and disks.
I hope this clears up what I am trying to do.
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Received on Tue Jun 29 2004 - 01:26:08 BST