[DECtalk] how to install more programs decTalk emulator

[Josh Kennedy]

the problem is that the installers themselves are designed to be run in
ms-dos.


On Sun, Aug 4, 2024 at 3:37 PM Aksel Christoffersen <aksel at blindsigtmail.dk>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
>
> I have a solution for Windows that might work, given you have the
> installers for the programs you want to install in the emulation.
>
>
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> You’ll need a program for Windows called ImDisc, which can do several
> things with disk images, including mounting them to your computer. You can
> download it somewhere on this site:
>
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/imdisk-toolkit/
>
> To install it, unzip the downloaded zip file, and run install.bat.
>
>
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> When the program is installed, right click on the ”dos.img” file from the
> MAME archive, and select ”Mount as ImDisk Virtual Disk”. Here you’ll need
> to select a drive letter to mount the image to, and then select to mount it
> as a hard drive, not at CD or floppy drive.
>
> When the image is mounted, you can access it as a normal external hard
> drive, and then copy the installers for the DOS programs to the image.
>
> When you need to unmount the image, go into the start menu and find and
> run ”ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver”. Here you will find a list of mounted disk
> images. Find the right one, and tab to the remove button. When you press
> remove, the files will be saved in the img file, and you schould now be
> able to access them, when running the emulation.
>
>
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> Hope this helps.
>
>
>
> Kind regards:
>
> Aksel
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