First post, by SepticLemon
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I need a bit of help with using DOSBOX with Steam, now I have been looking around for the solution that I need but I find nothing, either on this forum or on Google. If there's a solution on the forum, I'll apologise in advance...
But lets get into the nitty gritty...
I have all my DOS games running in DOSBOX smoothly and how I want them to work, with the right use of cycles, fullscreen, directories, and ISO files. I built up a set of conf files for each DOS game, something to the likes of this...
discW.conf
GABE.conf
GABE2.conf
themeH.conf
themeP.conf
and then I have individual shortcuts for each game that I can use in Windows, double clicking them loads up the conf file into DOSBOX
"ThemePark" - C:\Games\DOSBox-0.74\DOSBox.exe -conf themeP.conf
Now, this works perfectly fine in Windows, however... I'm a bit of a steam user, and I'd like to use the shortcuts in Steam as a "Non-Steam" game, however each time I select the shortcuts I see this...
"C:\Games\DOSBox-0.74\DOSBox.exe"
It cuts out the conf command that I used in the shortcut. So all that it does it runs DOSBOX with the default conf with no autoexec. Question is, how do I run my DOSBOX conf files within steam? The ironic thing is, Steam games you buy give you and option to add a command though the "Launch options" setting in the properties, but you can't do this for Non-steam games. Now, what I can see is a "Target" and a "Start in" in the properties for Non Steam games, and yes I tried to do "C:\Games\DOSBox-0.74\DOSBox.exe -conf themeP.conf" in the Target, but I end up with an error assuming that Steam believes that "-conf themeP.conf" is a part of program name rather than a command.
So, anyone got any solutions to this? I would like to have all my games on Steam as well as my Windows and DOS games.
EDIT: PS I have a similar problem with SCUMMVM too, if anyone can help me with this too will be much appreciated.