Try D.O.G. or DBGL.

Damn!
That was fast

Thanks for the quick answer

rcblanke can you make a quickstart in the Explorer Line which
Link to an exe or a shortcut, in your next release of DBGL.
And when the User done this, that dosbox automatic starts the game.

That would be great.

So you dont need a Folder and can start
with your game right now.

Good work with this Tool i love it

as for the Click & Play part

1. No, there will be no launcher called "Click & Play" due to trademark reasons

2. DBGL and D.O.G. are great, but you double-click and play on those. They also rely on absolute paths, like any launcher. If you plan on moving your DOS stuff from one drive or computer to another, you'd probably want to use a DOS-based frontend in DOSBox (like Quikmenu III and MagicDesk can use mouse and clicking).

3. Klik & Play games work fine under Windows 3.x in DOSbox, better than XP. 😜

DBGL can cope with moving around nowadays

DOG even earlier with its <DOGHOME> and <DOGDRIVE> paths.

These are specially made to place game installations on USB flash drives.

Erik

Will those "moving-around" solutions also allow me to (manually) create a short-cut to launch DOSBox and have it read a DBGL/DOG generated and maintained config file?

Creating a Windows shortcut that uses a DOSBox config file managed by DBGL or D.O.G. and then moving the Frontend around would potentialy break those shortcuts.

We could search the start menu of the logged on user and his/her's desktop for shortcuts that have a relation to a maintained conf file.

But then we would need to create a unique conf file number, a SID or a CRC32 on the exe?, to identify conf files a user or other users created.

But this could be a very slow process, checking every profile in the repository to each Profile shortcut.

This is a good idea that needs some more brainstorming, will see what I can do...

Erik.

Why would moving the frontend cause problems? Moving the configurations around would cause problems for the shortcut. But that can hardly be helped. Except one could have a variable set in the user environment and use that in the short-cut, e.g. %ProgramFiles%\DOSBox-0.72 -conf %DBConfs%\game.conf.

Ist their any DOS Menu aviable for DOSBOX?
Which i start with Dosbox and have in this a List of my games, so that i can easily playing this game with one click of my ENTER Button.

i hope you know what i mean?

There are tons of DOS programs out there that accomplish this purpose.

diqits wrote:

Ist their any DOS Menu aviable for DOSBOX?
Which i start with Dosbox and have in this a List of my games, so that i can easily playing this game with one click of my ENTER Button.

i hope you know what i mean?

If I understand you, all you need to do is to create your game profiles in DBGL and then all you have to do is double click on a game in the list to start it. You only have to configure it once.

No it should be a Dostool which list all my Dos Games from my Folder.

Than you can start the Dostool in Dosbox
and have a list where you can choose which game you want to play.

- it should mark the title of the Game then you can click on it.

We had such a Tool on a CD with One must Fall, Jazz Jackrabbit, Doom and lot of other great old Dos Games like MK3.

Another Question

can i program such thing for myself
cause i have lot of old Dos Games and want to burn it to DVD and then i start this Tool and see the List in DOS or Dosbox

Yeah, menu programs like this do exist. I use this one, Gekko Menu. It is shareware and no longer availlable, after much search I did find the company that made it and they okayed me to use the license I was using (from a Youth Club I was running ages ago). But there should be free ones availlable, too.

There are plenty of dos-based menus here:

http://www.eunet.bg/simtel.net/msdos/menu.html

is their a guide where i can learn to make such a menu?

Why would moving the frontend cause problems? Moving the configurations around would cause problems for the shortcut. But that can hardly be helped. Except one could have a variable set in the user environment and use that in the short-cut, e.g. %ProgramFiles%\DOSBox-0.72 -conf %DBConfs%\game.conf.

Well most of the time people create their confs in the default conf folder, wich resides in the Frontends directory.

But that can hardly be helped.

I think there is a way around this problem using unique identifiers setting them inside the conf/profile and in the shortcut file and thus linking them together.

Erik.

Keep in mind that such a DOS based menu has no real advantage over DBGL or D.O.G., in fact it has the distinct disadvantage of not allowing custom DOSBox configuration for each game. You would have to change what settings manually that you can on the fly. Any settings that have to done from the dosbox.conf would have to done before DOSBox (and hence, your menu) is started. If you needed to change one of these and DOSBox was already running, you would have to exit DOSBox, edit the conf file and restart DOSBox.

Explore these two great frontends, as they are also great database programs for your DOS games, as well.

in fact it has the distinct disadvantage of not allowing custom DOSBox configuration for each game.

Welllll, not really right. The way it is setup on my system is that the menu items call batch files for each game which set the necessary stuff. Almost everything vital can be done that way. Keymapper files are the bad apple but I don't use those anyway. It gets a bit more tricky with mounted images or CD-Roms but that can be circumvented by the batch file as well. And it's not like you don't have to restart Dosbox anyway if you use the frontends and want to play another game...