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Documentation improvement for "I want to install additional apps or games" #282

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shreevatsa opened this issue Oct 20, 2022 · 3 comments

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@shreevatsa
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Thanks for this wonderful software! Believe it or not, I had an old Windows program that I couldn't run under Wine or VirtualBox, and I couldn't quickly figure out how to get a cloud desktop, but this windows95.app actually managed to run that program flawlessly!

Regarding https://github.com/felixrieseberg/windows95/blob/master/HELP.md#i-want-to-install-additional-apps-or-games

If you are running macOS, or Linux, you can probably "mount" the virtual hard drive used by windows95 to add files. Hit the "Modify C: Drive" button, which will take you to the disk image.

On macOS, double-click the disk image to open it.

Just FYI for anyone who couldn't figure this out (and maybe the documentation itself can be improved, though I'm not sure of the wording to use): This almost works, except that it opens the disk image in /private/var/folders/… or something like that, which gets mounted read-only. Instead, if you open ~/Downloads/windows95.app/Contents/Resources/app/images/windows95.img (or whatever: the corresponding path inside the windows95.app file you're going to run), you can edit that one directly.

@dmihal
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dmihal commented Oct 30, 2022

Thanks, I got stuck on this exact issue, you solved my problem!

Would definitely be good for the documentation to update to show this.

@chkuendig
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+1 - thank you!

@HexTree
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HexTree commented Jul 15, 2024

Just FYI for anyone who couldn't figure this out (and maybe the documentation itself can be improved, though I'm not sure of the wording to use): This almost works, except that it opens the disk image in /private/var/folders/… or something like that, which gets mounted read-only. Instead, if you open ~/Downloads/windows95.app/Contents/Resources/app/images/windows95.img (or whatever: the corresponding path inside the windows95.app file you're going to run), you can edit that one directly.

I didn't quite understand what you mean here. So the path of my disk image, pointed to by the program, is:
C:\Users\Hex\AppData\Local\windows95\app-3.1.1\resources\app\images\windows95.img

What path would I give to OSFMount in this case?

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