First post, by JasonWanderer
Good evening (or morning/afternoon depending).
Recently, thanks to being on a nostalgia kick, I've been trying to get together a text-adventure game, created using BATCH, that would be compatible with DOSBOX.
My problem at the moment is that DOSBOX won't accept the "Set /p" command. In order to remedy this, I sought out the Strings 2.5 utility for MS-DOS, but I'm a bit confused on how to proceed.
I launched STRINGS in DOSBOX and typed in the install command, but I'm unsure if anything happended.
How exactly should I go about this process and what exactly needs to be done in order to convert my "Set /p" commands to "STRINGS"?
Do I just trust that everything installed correctly and simply replace my set commands with strings? Is there anything special I need to do in order to install a utility for DosBox?
Additionally, if I were to give this to someone would they need STRINGS 2.5 installed as well in ther version of DosBox?
Lastly, considering we're in 2016, is there an alternative to using STRINGS in order to make a BATCH file with variable input compatible with DosBox?
Thank you in advance,
~ Jason