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Saving on DOSBox

Arqade Asked by Shachar Har-Shuv on October 30, 2020

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:SAVEZORK1.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:ZORK1SAVEZORK1.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).

One Answer

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

This fixed it for me.

Answered by Will on October 30, 2020

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