Using FAKEDISK: Mount Floppy Disk Images on DOS [

[@joshhiner729]

Thanks for the video. Im 45 and an avid vintage gamer (and have been since the machines and games were new). Ive never heard of fakedisk. Wow! Thanks!

[@NiceCakeMix]

Really nice, i have used fakedisk before but not for a while. Thanks for reminding me of it.

[@RETROMachines]

Thanks for video. Happy Christmas..

[@sebastian19745]

One strange behaviour of the setup software that need to be phisically on a floppy is that if you copy each disk in a folder named disk1, disk2, disk3....disk10...etc, the install program will install the software just ok. I accidentally discovered that when I extracted some floppy images and ran the install from the directory disk1.

[@JimLeonard]

fakedisk is nice but IIRC doesn't work on 808x systems. For those, I use SHFDRV86 instead.

[@THEPHINTAGECOLLECTOR]

@ nice hint, didn‘t know this one. I willk have a look at it!

[@Aeduo]

Neat. A bit less useful than the optical disc mounting drivers, but yeah probably a few installers out there which are picky about running from A: and aren't otherwise just copy/unzip utilities. Some kind of hotkey to swap disks would make this a bit more useful for software like that, and needing the whole image in memory is a bit of a bummer. 1.44MB is quite a bit for DOS-era PCs.

[@eugiblisscast]

Reminds me a bit of how you can mount .iso files in Windows, though I guess this one has a couple flaws. Incredibly smart though!

[@ThrakaAndy]

You can also mount .iso files in dos with the correct device driver

[@8randomprettysecret8]

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