You are aware 0.63 is OLD. Aren't you?

it sure is old. i have used every version sinse 0.63. so that makes me old too. 😀

Edit: BTW, dosrunner will work with any DOSBox version.

This has been done already, and in a much simpler way. Doesn't require dot net (use the context menu and simple batch), thus works on any Windows OS that DOSBox can run in.

DOSBox Shell Integration

DOSBox Shell Integration

Sliver X should be using the "start" command so the command prompt doesn't remain open

also you don't even need the reg stuff
just drop a batch file into your SendTo directory

i see. i did this mainly because i was studying how to implement shell extensions in Windows, and also how to create a setup file with NSIS (the advantage of this is the clean uninstalls). i just thought creating a tool for DOSBox in the process of studying would be fun.

one advantage of this is anyone without knowledge of DOS commands can jump right into the game, without knowing anything about creating batch files or custom PIFs or dosbox.conf. they can just download a game, unzip it, right click on the executable and run it with DOSBox.

BTW, the .NET dependencies are only for the Configurator. The shell extension itself was written with pure Win32 API code, because managed code is not advised for shell extension coding.

anyways, thanks for the comments! i thought i would just share it. too bad somebody beat me to it. if anyone needs the source code for this, just give me a message and i'll send it to you.

posted this project on google code, so if anyone finds it useful: http://code.google.com/p/dosrunner/

all of these seem a lot of trouble to me.
all I do is go to the sendto folder in my user profile.
c:\users\(logonname)\appdata\roaming\microsoft\windows\sendto\
once there, I right click on an open spot and click new>shortcut.
follow the prompts to put a shortcut to your dosbox.exe in that folder.
after that, you only have to find your dos exe and right click>sendto>dosbox.
system does the rest.