Considering you can run DOSBox in DOSBox using HX then yes it would be possible. It depends on how the frontend was programmed.

A frontend like DBGL that use Java? No.
Something simpler. Probably.

This isn't supported though since only crazy people try to run DOSBox frontends inside of DOSBox.

😳

there are frontends /game managers for DOS as well.
Maybe checkout 3d menu or so.
Running windows frontends in dosbox, that start dosbox is overkill as you are then running dosbox inside dosbox.
While this is possible, you are emulating a pc within an emulated pc, which is a huge performance hit.

Wow, the ideas people have... Too much time probably.

Lol, it's not that I was being crazy or stupid, it's just that I am running Dosbox on my Wii. However, I don't have an extra usb keyboard and typing with an onscreen keyboard is a chore. I added an entry in autoexec to run the dos controller, which works and is okay I guess, but organizing and keeping track of the games, as well as tweaking everything is really a pain. I have used DBGL in the past and it had an option whether to just RUN a game or RUN a game using dosbox. I didn't know exactly what that did, but I figured it was something that I could use, ie. Run DBGL with dosbox and choose to just run the game, not run the game with another instance of dosbox. Shame about the java thing though. Does anyone know of a solution? I can't seem to track down a copy of that 3d menus program that was mentioned. 😢

Wait, you are trying to play old DOS games on a system with no keyboard? Masochist!

buy a keyboard for your wii

It's mostly for the old point-and-click adventure games like the king's quest and space quest and all of those so a keyboard really isn't needed except for the really early stuff. It isn't really even the whole keyboard thing, like I said, it's mostly for being able to keep track of the games, keep things in order, and keep each game configured properly and all that. Scummvm works great on it because it at least has a menu system for choosing games and all that. I just was hoping to get something running under dos.

even old point-and-click adventure games need keyboard to type a savegame file name

Hmmmm... Well i don't have a Wii (i mean the console, you perverts), but in my experience there are two basic approaches for managing games in DOSBox:

- "Outside" -> use a frontend that's running one the host OS
- "Inside" -> use a DOS frontend that's running in DOSBox

Each of those two have their pros and cons. I started out with a custom-coded "inside" solution. I created simple ini files for each game and then a 4DOS script that would build a graphical menu out of the info in those ini files. This basically worked fine, but there are some things you can't configure while DOSBox is running, so i've kinda abandoned that idea and are currently "rebuildiing" my DOS games collection so it can be managed by whichever frontend i choose to run (currently GameEX).

Dunno how easy homebrew on the Wii is, but i guess it should be possible to combine both ideas and code a simple launcher app that will read info from an ini file and launch that game with the appropriate settings (or a custom dosbox.conf if the ini's are a problem).

Oh, and i think i've seen functionality in DOSBox frontends to export custom dosbox.conf files. So you could configure everything on a PC and then use the exported conf to run the game on the Wii. That's the beauty of emulation after all - being able to run stuff independantly from the original system.

Dosbox inside Dosbox?
Wow. I wonder what the total performance penalty will be. 99.9%?
If someone gets this running he should definitely benchmark.

Well, as I said, the Wii version of Dosbox does have an onscreen keyboard that you can display, but trying to type using the Wiimote by pointing and clicking the letters is harder than you'd think. It's okay for just naming save files, but trying to do anything more than that is an exercise in frustration.

Anyway, I'm going to try it and see what happens. I'm more curious, now, than hopeful. Dosbox IN Dosbox on a Wii. I wonder if it'll create a black hole in the middle of my living room. 😳

bobdevis wrote:

Dosbox inside Dosbox?

Yo dawg, I heard you like DOSBox so we put a DOSBox in your DOSBox so you can DOSBox while you DOSBox

The HX site does mention about the recursion attempt. It's more novel, if anything.

leileilol wrote:

bobdevis wrote:

Dosbox inside Dosbox?

Yo dawg, I heard you like DOSBox so we put a DOSBox in your DOSBox so you can DOSBox while you DOSBox

The HX site does mention about the recursion attempt. It's more novel, if anything.

Does anyone else get a rootkit alert when you try to download the 2.16 runtime from the HX site? The lower version dl'd fine, but avast won't even let me download 2.16

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Guybrush: How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
Carpenter: A woodchuck would chuck no amount of wood since a woodchuck can’t chuck wood.
Guybrush: But if a woodchuck could chuck and would chuck some amount of wood, what amount of wood would a woodchuck chuck?
Carpenter: Even if a woodchuck could chuck wood and even if a woodchuck would chuck wood, should a woodchuck chuck wood?
Guybrush: A woodchuck should chuck wood if a woodchuck could chuck wood, as long as a woodchuck would chuck wood.
Carpenter: Oh shut up.

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just kidding of course

Soooo, not so much. I couldn't even get the apps I was trying to get running through dosbox on my comp, much less the wii.

Ah well.