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Running MS-DOS 6.22 with DOSBOX: -conf issue

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First post, by DigiDuncan

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Hi, everybody!

I'm new to DOSBox, and wanted to play with the original MS-DOS 6.22 to get the legit experience. As such, I used this tutorial. (http://www.transmissionzero.co.uk/computing/i … sdos-in-dosbox/)

So, at the "Setting Up DOSBox" step, I set my shortcut target to

"C:\Program Files (x86)\DOSBox-0.74\DOSBox.exe" -conf "C:/DOS/msdos622.conf"

My conf file is standard as it came, except for this bit:

[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.
# You can put your MOUNT lines here.
imgmount 2 "C:\DOS\msdos622.img" -size 512,63,16,507 -fs none
boot "C:\DOS\Dos622-1.img" "C:\DOS\Dos622-2.img" "C:\DOS\Dos622-3.img"

However, upon booting DOSBox, it boots with the standard config located in its %AppData%\Local\DOSBox folder.

The contents of my C:\DOS folder are edit: not attached. Any help would be highly appreciated!

Thanks!

Last edited by DigiDuncan on 2016-05-08, 01:11. Edited 1 time in total.

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Reply 1 of 5, by ripsaw8080

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Try backslashes instead of forward slashes in the conf file pathspec. Also, please remove the attachment, or at least remove the MS-DOS files from it. MS-DOS is not freeware.

Reply 2 of 5, by DigiDuncan

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ripsaw8080 wrote:

Try backslashes instead of forward slashes in the conf file pathspec. Also, please remove the attachment, or at least remove the MS-DOS files from it. MS-DOS is not freeware.

Same issue. Here's the console:

DOSBox version 0.74
Copyright 2002-2010 DOSBox Team, published under GNU GPL.
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CONFIG:Loading primary settings from config file C:\Users\DigiDuncan\AppData\Local\DOSBox\dosbox-0.74.conf
MIDI:Opened device:win32

It doesn't even appear to try loading the custom config.

(I removed the attachment as well. Sorry!)

~DigiDuncan

Reply 3 of 5, by DigiDuncan

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Here is my empty disc image, if it matters.

The attachment emptyimg.zip is no longer available

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Reply 4 of 5, by DigiDuncan

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After some testing, the config file works if I replace the one in the standard location, so the config file isn't the issue, it's the -conf that isn't working.

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Reply 5 of 5, by ripsaw8080

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It works for me. Maybe DOSBox doesn't have the necessary permissions to your C:\DOS folder.

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