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First post, by SieBoi

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So i was trying to install "DJGPP" to my dosbox i unzipped everything to correct places then the tutorial told me:

You need to update your C:\CONFIG.SYS to include the following lines (edit the first to suit your installation, and if these lines already exist, it's OK if they have larger numbers than these examples):

shell=c:\dos\command.com c:\dos /e:2048 /p
files=40
fcbs=40,0
You need to update your C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT to include the following lines:

set PATH=C:\DJGPP\BIN;%PATH%
set DJGPP=C:\DJGPP\DJGPP.ENV
Note that the PATH statement should follow any other PATH statements, or you may edit an existing PATH statement.

And i tried the things on it (ofc i know our base directory is "Z:\" not "C:\DOS") however that didn't change anything. First i though they may talking about "dosshell" however that sound quite absurd so i looked up for the shell command, i found little information on it however all the sites where saying it was in MS-DOS and not just dos, so i installed and tried an MS-DOS 8.0 standalone rip (the version that normally comes with windows ME) that didn't work. I thought it may be in freedos 1.2 since it has like 400+mb of things inside of it, that didn't had it either. so what is that shell and how can i install my software? Also since we are on the topic of changing command.com and stuff, is there a way to edit command.com or at least export and inport it into windows?

Reply 1 of 4, by BinaryDemon

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I have no experience with this but, I did see this similar post on reddit and it seems like there is a work around.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dosbox/comments/a8u0 … SGG&sh=18f5eb24

Check out DOSBox Distro:

https://sites.google.com/site/dosboxdistro/ [*]

a lightweight Linux distro (tinycore) which boots off a usb flash drive and goes straight to DOSBox.

Make your dos retrogaming experience portable!

Reply 3 of 4, by zirkoni

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You only need to set the path variables to make the compiler work, the config.sys stuff is unnecessary in DOSBox.

set PATH=Z:\;C:\DJGPP\BIN;%PATH%
set DJGPP=C:\DJGPP\DJGPP.ENV

https://youtube.com/@zirkoni42

Reply 4 of 4, by SieBoi

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zirkoni wrote:
You only need to set the path variables to make the compiler work, the config.sys stuff is unnecessary in DOSBox. […]
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You only need to set the path variables to make the compiler work, the config.sys stuff is unnecessary in DOSBox.

set PATH=Z:\;C:\DJGPP\BIN;%PATH%
set DJGPP=C:\DJGPP\DJGPP.ENV

Thanks to everyone, that did it!