First post, by megatron-uk
I'm trying to set up a filesystem image I want to copy over to a real system and am currently writing some batch files to mount cd images, start the game, and unmount again... using the good old SHSUCDHD (3.01, May 2005) and SHSUCDX (3.09, Sep 2022) utilities. It's easier to do this on an emulated environment rather than by hand on old hardware.
This is in Dosbox, just built from svn today (27th March 2024).
I'm doing something I've done a hundred times before on real systems:
SHSUCDHD /U
SHSUCDX /U
SHSUCDHD /F:D:\ISO\WHAVEN2.ISO
SHSUCDX /D:SHSU-CDH
That should open WHAVEN2.ISO from D:\ISO and assign it to the device SHSU-CDH, and the message back from SHSUCDHD indicates it is fine:
D:\ISO\WHAVEN2.ISO : Unit 0
... but when it comes to mapping that device to a drive letter, every single combination of parameters I try with SHSUCDX results in an error:
Can't open CD driver SHSU-CDH.
or
Can't open CD driver SHSU-CDH. SHSUCDX can't install.
If I use a wildcard in the SHSUCDX command, I get a different error:
SHSUCDX /D:*SHSU-CDH
SHSUCDX installed.
No drives assigned.
1 drive(s) available.
It appears to me that SHSUCDHD is loading the new device correctly, but for some reason the device name it uses (SHSU-CDH) is not matched when the SHSUCDX driver attempts to find it. Has anyone else found similar behaviour whilst running SHSUCDX under Dosbox?
I know I can use imgmount to achieve the same under Dosbox, but that misses the point - when I zip up this filesystem image and squirt it onto a CF card, those Dosbox tools of course won't exist.
Before anyone asks; no it's not the ISO file - every ISO I've tried this with has resulted in the same symptoms. I've tried Albion, Sim City 2000 SE, original C&C and RA images, Syndicate and half a dozen more. They all result in the same.
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