Saving on DOSBox

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I'm running ZORK.BAT on DOSBox. The problem is that whenever I want to save the game, and it asks me:

insert save disk then enter file name.
(Default is C:SAVE\ZORK1.DAT):

No matter what I wrote, it would tell me it can't find the file:

Unable to Access file
Failed.

I tried to copy a file in dos (outside game) and it wouldn't work as expected. I think maybe the DOSBox doesn't have writing permissions but I couldn't figure out how to fix this.

All the files (the ZORK1 folder) are saved in c:\OLDGAMES\ in my pc. I mounted OLDGAMES to be the c drive of the DOSBox so the directory for saving the file in the box is c:\ZORK1\SAVE\ZORK1.DAT.
The directory and the file exists both on my computer and in the virtual box (when commanding "dir" it shows the "SAVE" folder in the list).

Best Answer

Try updating the SAVE/ZORK1.DAT file attributes so it is not read-only.

This fixed it for me.

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I'm going to try to answer generally, since I don't have this game.

Some games expect you to have C:\ since probably 99% of Windows/DOS installations use that as their main drive. So try (for example):

mount C /home/user/oldgames

And then run the installer and try installing it under C.

If your path is something like /media/external then it could be that the drive is too big, and the installer thinks the drive size is a negative value or something due to integer overflow. In that case you could try making a small partition and using that instead. This is assuming DOSBox uses the max available size. You can specify a size (in MB) like so:

mount C /path/to/whatever -freesize 1024

How to save the game of Zork that i am playing in DOSBox

Just save the game normally. Don't put in a disk or anything.

The game will be saved to your mount point for the C: drive. For example, If your mount point is /Users/Foo/Documents/Zork/, then the game will save to the ./save/ directory in the ./Zork/ folder.

When you want to resume playing, load up Zork then type restore at the prompt and press Enter. It should point to your existing save file. If not, type where your save is located, for example, C:\Save\zork1.dat, then press enter.

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