Running LBA 2 under Dosbox

This was made in 2011; I tried in May 2024 to install it on a W11 laptop. Dosbox went on OK and I found some runes to mount the CD and create a game folder, but it still insists on having the CD mounted. The answer is probably steam or gog games. Overleaf/below, I have left the original runes on the page; they may help someone.

I was reminded of magicball.net, a fabulous resource who have this thread , on making the game work.

In order to run LBA 2, the PIF requires the following command

C:\DOSe\dosbox\DOSBox-0.72\dosbox.exe 
    -c "mount d: d:\ -t cdrom -lable lba2 -ioctl -usedcd 1 -fullscreen"
    -c "mount c c:\DOSe\lba2" 
    -c "C:" 
    -c "lba2" 
    -c "exit"

I have tried to get this to run in a .bat, but this works. Obviously the directory path will vary and the name of the CD path. See also dosbox for links to other LBA resources on the ‘net.

And for LBAHQ’s version of the original adventure

C:\DOSe\dosbox\DOSBox-0.72\dosbox.exe 
    -c "mount d: d:\ -t cdrom"
    -c "mount c c:\lba" 
    -c "C:" 
    -c "lba" 
    -c "exit"