Originally Posted by Japo (Post 421493)

The game has a very particular way of identifying the game CD. It's not a good way, because it seems the only thing it does is look at the disk label; but in a very particular way. The only way it works AFAIK is with the mount command advised by Bethesda: using "mount" with a simple folder (not imgmount with an image) with the parameters "-t cdrom -label Daggerfall".

Mind you, it has to be "-label Daggerfall", neither "daggerfall" nor "DAGGERFALL" will work! I just realized today, I was lucky to make it work at the first try back then, but I'm sure this has been responsible for a lot of pending support posts on the forum. Considering that DOS was case insensitive, and that the champs who coded this could have no foreknowledge of how DOSBox and its mount.com would handle this, this has to be a one in a million shot, and very fucked up.

But I wanted to make this work by mounting an image instead of a folder for one reason. The "imgmount" command accepts either a real or virtual for the image, but "mount" accepts a real path only. So I can't make a .bat that mounts the folder as CD and then starts the game, because every guy will have the CD folder in a different path which I have no way of knowing.

Originally Posted by Japo (Post 421695)

The story is, I now remember when this got released, lots of people were saying that you had to enter "fall.exe z.cfg", dagger.exe wouldn't do. I now know they must have spelled "wrong" the label in the CD mount command. Dagger.exe is a very small program that only makes some checks (CD and presence of mouse, enough memory and file handles...) and if they're passed it just calls precisely "fall.exe z.cfg". So an image still doesn't cut it for dagger.exe, but if you call "fall.exe z.cfg" instead it runs OK.