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[majorka]

I am unexperienced in this,so after reading everything in DOSBOX TUTORIAL on your site and then opening DOSBox for the first time, I'm getting Z:\> instead of, I think it must have been C. What did I do wrong?

[_r.u.s.s.]

write intro. and read what it says

[The Fifth Horseman]

You did nothing wrong... because you did nothing at all.

A Beginner's guide to DOSBox might come in very handy in explaining what and how to do.

[majorka]

Thanks. It's apparently not as simple as it looks,so I will try to read through this site you refered to.

[_r.u.s.s.]

no it is, those tutorials are only confusing

[chainsoar]

Russ is right, it's actually easy as pie. Even the slightly more advanced stuff isn't too hard once you get to grips with it.

[Hoppit]

I'm trying to mount my games directory in Windows, but DOSbox freaks out about the path and says it doesn't exist. Can it not handle spaces in directory names?

[dosraider]

Don't use your Windows dir, bad idea.
Simply create a new one, avoid spaces, or else use " " ,something as:
mount c "x:\i like spaces and i can't live without them"
And you could read the howto or the dosbox readme.

[Hoppit]

Thanks for the tip. Thanks not so much for the condescension. Of course I went to the readme. It isn't much help for non-fulltime computer nerds.

[Eagle of Fire]

You are probably not trying hard enough then, because DOS is a big deal simplier to work with than modern OSes.

That's probably your problem right here: stop thinking about complicated processes and think simple. DOSBox don't work with spaces? That's how DOS worked back in the days. Just don't use spaces, and keep all your file names under the 8 character maximum.

Simple.