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.
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.
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Thanks for video. Happy Christmas..
Really nice, i have used fakedisk before but not for a while. Thanks for reminding me of it.
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!
fakedisk is nice but IIRC doesn't work on 808x systems. For those, I use SHFDRV86 instead.
@ nice hint, didn‘t know this one.
I willk have a look at it!
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.
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.
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!
Gnarly