Hello, I managed to get thing going using this batch: @echo off tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq dosbox.exe" 2>NUL | find /I /N "dosbox.exe">NUL if "%ERRORLEVEL%"=="0" msg %username% Electronic Early Warning Sytem Already Running. Click OK. if "%ERRORLEVEL%"=="1" msg %username% Electronic Early Warning …

Thank you DosFreak, i will start dosbox with a batch file that looks like this: tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq dosbox.exe" 2>NUL | find /I /N "dosbox.exe">NUL if "%ERRORLEVEL%"=="0" echo Early Warning System is already running... if "%ERRORLEVEL%"=="1" "C:\Program Files\DOSBox_MB5\dosbox.exe" -noconsole …

Hello - again 😊 is it possible to have only one instance of dosbox running on a win7 machine? Is it something I could add to the config file? Because when I switch users i am able to start the same abbplication for other users - this might corrupt my data... thank you

DosFreak & Qbix ... I am so deeply sorry for wasting your time with my own stupidity... :blush: ... there is a dosbox.conf file in that folder ... but it is a dosbox.conf.txt ... and I just saw that after this " Are you sure there is a dosbox.conf in c:\rs-prodo ?" was posted. I fixed that and it it …

Hi Qbix, thank you for your replies :happy: I tried to do that - if i right click the shortcut and do properties - the Target is: "C:\Program Files\DOSBox_MB5\dosbox.exe" -conf c:/rs-prodo/dosbox.conf but it still loads the C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\DOSBox config file..... any ideas : …

Hello, Thank you for that - how do i point the shortcuts for dosbox to that .conf ? As very user that logs on and executes dosbox will have his specific .conf file in C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\DOSBox C:\Users\jwalker\AppData\Local\DOSBox C:\Users\tgreen\AppData\Local\DOSBox etc regards

Hello, how do I set a specific .conf file for all users that log onto the domain? Currently the default .conf file is loaded but another user will not have the same configuration. I want to do a all users startup link in windows 7 but it has to read the same configuration file for all users. …

h-a-l-9000 - it seems that I am getting a rollover into a new day with a new text file being created due to the date /S command. Do i have to state the command everytime I start MB5? regards and thank you - 😀

Qbix thank you for the pointer 😀 much appreciated !! regards,

h-a-l-9000 thank you for that - I installed mb5 and things seem to be going really nice. I added these line to the startup in the .conf file # Lines in this section will be run at startup. mount c c:/rstest c: date /S rs-prodo.exe is the date/S command any good there? Thank you all for your help and …

Hello, I am running an old dos application that communicates with sensors for a mining pit monitoring system that was custom made. This dos program was written for windows 95 and ME. Due to systems upgrade it needs to run on XP or Win7. The program receives data over com1 that it the exports to a …