I think it can somehow be done. You can specify which config file to use by using a command-line parameter, but now I am not already sure if it will take the remaining parameters from default dosbox.conf - I think yes, but again, I am not fully sure. Just try it.

i did try it, it didnt work for me hence hence why i posted

sorry guess i should have sayd that i'd already attempted it

uhm you can create a configfile which only list differences from our/my default configfile. but not your configfile.

if you want to override your current/global configfile you can use enverionment variables.

DOSBOX_SECTION_PARAMETER=value
(DOSBOX_CPU_CYCLES=5000 for example)

I'm not certain how useful the parsing of multiple configuration files would be.
Might complicate it more than needed.

I have had very nice results with batch files and DOSBoxens new config commands, for example:

z:\config -set cpu cycles 300

This can't set all options yet, some must be set via dosbox.conf or environment, but all important game-specific settings work (all cpu and memory related, frameskip and the like).

What I recommend is backing up the dosbox.conf file in the main DosBox directory, and then modifying it so it works for the majority of your games.

Then copy this file to the specific games folder (say C:\Games\F-19\) and modify it with commands to launch the specific game and any options that need to be changed to support the specific game.

Then create and modify a shortcut to DosBox with the specific game name that loads this config file, in other words, a target line of C:\dosbox\DOSBox-0.63\dosbox.exe -conf "C:\Games\F-19\dosbox.conf, for example.

The only drawback to this is you have more files, which are slightly larger (we're talking several hundred words in a text file) and more spread out, and that is is difficult to see what options were changed in each game without doing a line-by-line comparison.

(Oh, and that you might have to modify all those files again when the next DosBox version is released).

Hi all,

You might want to take a look here:

Multiple conf files

Regards,
Ronald