I think I remember there was a way to load a floppy image file (booter game) on a dos machine without actually writing it to a floppy, but I don't remember the particulars. It was some 3rd party loader program, as I recall, and just loaded the file into memory and ran it.
Does anyone remember this, or have a link or a name I could search for?
I'm trying to fire up my XT with an XT-IDE, but a few of the games I want to play are booters, and I'm hoping to avoid the floppy shuffle.
Run IMG file on Dos w/out floppy
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Post by Malvineous »
Another solution, although it requires a bit more work, is to use Memdisk and a network card with PXE support. Then you can boot the PC over the network and choose which floppy image you want to boot. You can even boot a floppy that mounts a network drive, allowing you to play all your DOS games on a machine with no disks in it at all - no floppy, hard drive or USB sticks needed.
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Was used lot with Linux, interesting is that you can boot from almost any size of floppy-CD image,
Even more interesting was that it loaded the image in high mem, only grabbed a small amount of precious lower (base) mem.
Been a long time I've used it, blame the VM s ..... they are in fact easier to use to test-boot-tryout-run OSses softs, and VMs run in the OS itself, don't overtake your compy .... yeah, lazy moi.
Should you be interested dig into the syslinux site:
http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/ ... ux_Project
Even more interesting was that it loaded the image in high mem, only grabbed a small amount of precious lower (base) mem.
Been a long time I've used it, blame the VM s ..... they are in fact easier to use to test-boot-tryout-run OSses softs, and VMs run in the OS itself, don't overtake your compy .... yeah, lazy moi.

Should you be interested dig into the syslinux site:
http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/ ... ux_Project
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