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First post, by Icon_xof

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Howdy all,
I've build for my 11 year old daughter a computer for Christmas and on it installed DosBox to emulate all the old Apogee games I grew up playing. I was wondering if there is some way to create a Windows (XP) shortcut for the games so she doesn't have to type all the dos code to get to any given game.
I understand it has something to do with the config.com setup, but I'm not familiar enough with the dos language anymore to create a shortcut. It took me a few mins to remember enough to get the games working, 🤣.
Thanks in advance

Reply 1 of 4, by eL_PuSHeR

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[Thread moved to DOSBox General]

Yes you can use shortcuts for any game.

First copy the DOSBox config file (dosbox.conf) to the game folder.

Make some adjustments if needed. The most important thing is to put the change directoy and invoke games commands at the botton of the config file (autoexec section).

For instance

[autoexec] # Lines in this section will be run at startup. # You can put your MOUNT lines here. […]
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[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.
# You can put your MOUNT lines here.

keyb sp 437
mount c e:\dosgames
c:
cd game1
run
exit

and then create a shortcut invoking those parameters:

C:\Program Files\DOSBox-0.74\DOSBox.exe -userconf <real path to dosbox.conf for that specific game> -fullscreen

and then name the shortcut accordingly.

This method is a bit bothersome but you can create as many shortcuts as you want.

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