Many moons ago, I tried something like that, but I soon abandoned the idea of a mega menu and a gazilion of configuration files in favour of a simple, game-specific dosbox.conf file each game.

It is the method favoured by the many DOSBox frontends out there (read all about frontends here).

as i ralized, that previous option was taken and i did not search hard enough for the answer, feeling stypid,i pondered myself the next solution.

new moon rose and i got into moon madness... while transing in my madness... crasy idea rose to me.

wy dont we create great box called "folder" where i create electrical hieroclyptic scripts called ".bat files" and mount it in "autoexec.bat selection.

ok... sounds stypid, but the experimentations continues until i get my alchemy right... 🤣

I must admit, I don't entirely get what you want, but batch files work, the "type" command works, dosbox.conf has a section called "autoexec" - now guess what it does. To access batch files from everywhere, you need to set PATH as it was in original DOS. The only important difference to real DOS is the need to mount drives before they can be used. Put your batch files and menu text into one folder, mount that via [autoexec], and go on from there. Hint: recent dosboxens even support the "choice" command from MS-DOS.

no problem... allready got this to work.

Dosbox did allready contain features to support .bat command line funktions and supports type command. 😒 ...as moe said before. the darn thing was just to mount it first.

bat contains ready set funtions e.g. you could type in command for funktion
1.bat
"mount x c:\games\game1\
x:
rungame.exe"

this would mount game to drive x: and run it. 🤣

by connecting "menu" to startup (in autoexec portion of config) you receve system that shows you the menu...
autoexec
"mount m: c:\games\menu
m:
type menu.txt"

menu would show the explanation of games bidden to "keys" set to ".bat" files.

like this (mine actually works):

1+----------------------------------------------+-------+
2|  Games on menu press # and [enter]           | works |
3+----------------------------------------------+-------|   
4|  1.  WingCommander - Privateer               |   N   |  *   Y  = Fully Works
5|  2.  Master Of Magic                         |   Y   |  *  n/S = No Sounds
6|  3.  Master Of Orion I                       |   Y   |
7|  4.  Mega-Lo-Mania                           |   Y   |
8|  5.  Legend of Kyrandia2 - Hand of fate      |   Y   |
9|  6.  Legend of Kyrandia3 - Malcolms revenge  |  n/S  |
10|  7.  SimCity 2000                            |   Y   |
11|  8.  Princess maker 2                        |   Y   |
12|                                              |       |
13+----------------------------------------------+-------+

m:\

...and so on. When you press number and enter, the game launches. 😁

The system works, but has drawbacks too 😢
for every game you would have to add it to the list and create the .bat file too.

you mentioned "choise"... this is new command for me.(even though i used the original dos) how does it works? any link that you would have ready? 😮

It's not the best of references, but scroll down to "RUNNING DIFFERENT PROGRAMS" for an example:

http://www.computerhope.com/batch.htm