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First post, by ik8ozv

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Hello,
i need an hand.
I have to ru several dos prgrams under Windows 7 64 BIT.
How to do with DosBox?
Also i need that one of the dos Prgrams has to be run once i load Windows 7. Please how to set up the program to do it?
Any step by step tutorial or anybody can be so kind to explain me?
Thanks in advance.
Enzo

Reply 1 of 19, by Dominus

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Read the readme and the guides. Once you understand dosbox you can just make an autorun entry as with every other windows program

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Reply 2 of 19, by ik8ozv

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Cannot understand why not help.
I've read but cannot understand how to male
The same program to run either automaticaly
and also manually.
I had success only in one way or automatically
or manually changing the setting file
but i thing that it is not worse changing it every time .
Please any help will be' really appreciated.
Thanks in advanced.
Enzo

Reply 4 of 19, by eL_PuSHeR

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Reply 5 of 19, by ik8ozv

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Hello,
I've added the lines in the Autoexec Sections.
And the made a shortcut into the Strtup Folder.
Now at the Windows 7 load up, the Dos file starts do what it has to do then exit.
That is what i need. Now I need also to run the same program when iwant but as i made the settings in the configuration file, i cannot run just the program when i need or other dos programs because, how i said before as i made the changig it starts always the program i made in the startup folder.
Do i need more settings to do both things?
Thanks
Enzo

Reply 7 of 19, by ik8ozv

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Please If you do not want to say how to do it, can you tell me which paragraph to read?
Thanks once more
Also is it possible to hear the sound trough the PC speaker instead of the Sounblaster?
Because perhaps if i have set the Volume of the sound Blster to Mute i wan to hear
the alarm trough the speaker
Thanks once more
Enzo

Reply 8 of 19, by Dominus

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The part about command line settings. I don't know where that is in the readme.
You cannot redirect to the pc speaker unless you can redirect this somehow in your Windows

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Reply 9 of 19, by ik8ozv

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Cannot get it.
I've copeid the dosbox-0.74.conf renaming it in test.conf and placed in the same folder wher is th dosbox-0.74.conf folder.I've replaced the Autoexec section with:
Mount c "C:\DOS"
so it looks different as the original one.
Tried to run the comand dosbox -userconf c:\Users\Enzo\AppData\Local\DOSBox\test.conf,
i can see the Dosbox open and can read:
Drive C is mounted as local Directory c:\Users\Enzo\AppData\Local\DOSBox\
Z:\>C:
C:\TEST.CONF
Illegal comand: TEST.CONF
C:\>
Where am i still mistaken?
Thanks

Reply 10 of 19, by Dominus

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In dosbox you can only execute programs or batch files. Config files are run as you did via the userconf switch.

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Reply 11 of 19, by ik8ozv

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I did not run it in the DosBox but out from the windows 7

Reply 13 of 19, by ik8ozv

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Please
which is the right comand?
which should be the right configuration file?
what to put in it?
Thanks

Reply 14 of 19, by Jorpho

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Qbix just said it.

ik8ozv wrote:

dosbox -userconf c:\Users\Enzo\AppData\Local\DOSBox\test.conf

Replace "-userconf" with "-conf".

Reply 15 of 19, by Dominus

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ik8ozv wrote:

I did not run it in the DosBox but out from the windows 7

The others took care of the userconf/conf confusion but just to clarify, on the dosbox prompt you cannot run "test.conf" as you wrote you tried. You can only run files with the file ending exe, com or bat.

Reply 16 of 19, by ik8ozv

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Ok Guys it seems i got it now.
Thanks who gaved me clues.
Now whant i want to do is:
As the Dos program that i run, give me alerts suonds, whe i rn it trough windows XP it alerted me trough the PC speaker and it was verry ggo for me as when i have the PC unhattend because iwas in another room, Either if the sond blaster was switched to mute, i could always hear the PC speker when i was alerted. Unfortunatelly i cannot get it doing trough the DosBox program.
The question is:
Is there a possibilty to set the DosBox to run just that program trough the PC speaker and not trough the Sound Blaster?
If yes how to set in the configuration file?
Thanks in advance.
Enzo

Reply 17 of 19, by h-a-l-9000

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No.

1+1=10

Reply 18 of 19, by kolano

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Counter to h-a-l-9000. I think such is possible. I'm guessing he's just annoyed at the long thread related to stepping you though this. If you look in the conf file/configuration settings for such you should see options to enable the PC Speaker without SB.

Since you haven't indicated the specific DOS programs being run it's difficult to say how things work out.

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Reply 19 of 19, by Dominus

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Kolano, you are wrong. The OP wants to use his systems pc speaker. This is not possible via dosbox. The setting you mean only concerns the EMULATION of a pc speaker. Sound is still output via the systems sound device.

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