Back in 2009, I had written DOSBox for Dummies, a short and simple article explaining how to get old games running in DOSBox, and how to write a batch file so you don’t have to do this every time. A typical batch file might look something like this:

dosbox -c "mount c C:\prophet" -c "C:" -c "prophet"

That will often be good enough. But if your game needs to access resources on CD, such as Ravenloft: Stone Prophet in this case, then that’s not quite going to work:

To allow the game to access the CD, you’ll need an extra command to mount the CD drive:

-c "mount d D:\ -t cdrom"

The whole thing looks something like this:

dosbox -c "mount c C:\prophet" -c "mount d D:\ -t cdrom" -c "C:" -c "prophet"

That’s much better:

If you don’t want to pop in your CD every time you want to play, just copy the CD onto your hard disk, and mount that folder instead:

dosbox -c "mount c C:\prophet" -c "mount d C:\STONE_V1.0 -t cdrom" -c "C:" -c "prophet"

That works just as well.