Re: Floppy disc images

[Kari Eveli lexitec@xxxxxxxx]

Hello Myron,

Normally, vDosXy and vDosPlus XyWrite need a ready installation of the
program in a folder. Installing it from disk images is not supported,
but there are virtual environments that support floppy disk image files.
MS Virtual PC 2004-2007 is the traditional way for doing this (I have
blank floppies for Virtual PC on my site:
http://www.lexitec.fi/xywrite/blanks.zip, and you can copy the contents
of the original floppies via a shared folder to these blank floppy
images, and save them and "insert" them into the virtual machine as
needed). MS Virtual PC 2004-2007 cannot be installed on all modern
systems, and can be quite a chore to set up if you have not done it before.


Perhaps an easier way to accomplish this is by installing Win31DOSBox by
Edward Mendelson: http://www.columbia.edu/%7Eem36/win31dosbox.html
It supports virtual and real floppies (virtual in drive A: as files in
the A-DRIVE folder, real in drive B:). The system has a separate DOS
prompt what you can use bypassing the Windows 3.1x part after it has
been installed.


But I would recommend using a ready installed copy of XyWrite, and using
the vDosPlus installer to make it usable in Windows.


Best regards,

Kari Eveli
LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
lexitec@xxxxxxxx

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Myron Gochnauer wrote:
> Since we’re on the subject of running XyWrite on a Mac or in a Windows or DOS emulator,
> perhaps someone can help me with this:
>
> If I have a set of DOS-disk images for a program I want to install, but I don’t have an
> installed copy of the program, how should I proceed?  I can extract the installer program and run
> it, but typically it soon say something like ’Insert Disc #2". Is there a way of
> tricking the installer into accepting a disk image or a directory as ’Disc #2’?
>
> Myron