Adding and removing DOS drives

Go to Drives ▸ Show DOS Drives to open the Drives Inspector. This panel shows what DOS drives are available and lets you add, remove, and swap between drives.

To add a drive to DOS:

To swap between CDs/floppies:

When you add extra CDs or floppies, they will go into a queue with any previous CD/floppy, using the same drive letter.

You can then swap between each CD/floppy in a queue:

If you want to have CDs/floppies on separate drive letters — e.g. one floppy at drive A and another at drive B — then add the drives manually with the + button as described above.

To remove a drive from DOS:

Bundling additional drives into a gamebox

Each of your gameboxes contains a drive C for the hard disk where the game is installed, and often a drive D for the game’s CD-ROM. Because they’re part of the gamebox, these drives are always available in DOS when you run the game.

If you want additional drives to be always available to the game — for instance, extra CDs for a multi-CD game — then you can bundle them into the gamebox too:

  1. Add the drive to DOS if it isn’t already, by following the instructions above.
  2. In the Drives Inspector, select the drive and click on the CD sliding into box icon; or right-click on the drive and choose Import into Gamebox.
  3. Make a cup of tea while the drive imports.

Once the import is finished, the drive will be a permanent part of the gamebox and always there when you run the game.

The import process will physically copy the drive’s contents into the gamebox, creating a duplicate of the original folder or image used for the drive. You don’t need to keep the original around after this.

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