That would be fairly simple were it not for this whole business about creating a portable version of the application. One made into an EXE, the "working directory" is already essentially made read-only, so that's not the problem. The folder where the game files live aready can't be alterede as it …

Making the dir read only will also keep me from saving games...! If I have to recompile libSDL, then that another story. I'll have to look into that. I assume at this point that there is no straight-forward way to do what Iwant as DOSBox stands at this time. Thanks for your help and prompt replies. …

By "presentation" I just mean that I don't want extra files created that I will just delete later, I'd rather they not be created at all, since I will never have a reason to look at them. Same goes for the console window, I don't need a window opening that I don't have a reason to look at. I'm …

Hello, I'm trying to find a way to prevent DOSBox from creating the files stdout.txt and stderr.txt when running with the -noconsole switch. There doesn't seem to be an option to suppress the report output altogether. I'd like the excution of the program to be completely "clean", i.e. no secondary …