When I run DOSBox on my system, Windows XP throws up a console screen (command prompt). The descriptive title is "C:\Program Files\DOSBox\0.63\dosbox.exe" and it displays messages as the dosbox.exe program runs in a separate window.
Is there a way to turn off this console screen that XP uses? Maybe set it to "Hidden" somehow?
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From README.TXT in DosBox directory
-noconsole (Windows Only)
Start dosbox without showing the console window. Output will
be redirected to stdout.txt and stderr.txt
Well, let's see here:
I created a batch file consisting of "dosbox.exe -noconsole", but then I had a console window titled "C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe" that spawned the dosbox program.
As an alternative, I opened the command prompt and manually executed the dosbox program, but I was still left with the original command prompt!
...at least these console screens can be closed, though!
Maybe what I want can't be done unless the code is modified to simply never show it. I'll try that route. Thanks.
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just create a shortcut to dosbox where you add the -noconsole setting
if you do it from a batfile it's logical that there is a console as it belongs to the batfile
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Me for example, I've created a DOSBox shortcut on my desktop and in order to play a game I drag&drop its *.exe file on the shortcut. It suits me the best like this. But when I add "-noconsole" into the shortcut, the game doesn't start any more after being drag&dropped on the shortcut. It only shows DOSBox window with Z:\>. I can only wonder why is that?
So I think that in this case the "-noconsole" command doesn't work as presumed.
Nonetheless, it would be cool to play games in DOSBox via drag&drop way without the console shown.
Note: I run Windows XP Pro SP2 and the Target field in my original DOSBox shortcut looks like this: "C:\Program Files\DOSBox-0.63\dosbox.exe" -conf "C:\Program Files\DOSBox-0.63\dosbox.conf".
