In autoexec section of the .conf file place the commands that you want dosbox to perform.

c:
cd war2
war2.exe
exit

The autoexec run first, so there is not yet a mounted c: drive in dosbox cause my bat file makes dosbox to mount those based on variables :\ Is there anyway you can make the autoexec wait the bat file? Result autoexec gives is that "there is no c: drive mounted" and after that my bat file hits and makes the automounts. If anybody gets what I am talking here 😁 I put a screenshots in a minute.

Dosbox
Error when using autoexec (had to remove exit because that only closed the aplication)

Bat i'm using to make games load independendly without having to know drive letter or path

Well, you can include the mount command in the conf file, before trying to switch to the C drive.

can you specify how? Remember that I want the game to be portable. So drive letter can change, same goes to directory tree. So how to mount c and d at this specific folder wherever it is.

as you see, when i moved the folder to my desktop, i can still use my bat file to mount the location that I'm at the moment, (different drive letter, different path),but how to make the config file do the same? Without the full path?

60 seconds guide to getting your game to run in DOSBox

No. This post didn't help at all. There is nothing about relative filepaths or anything making the config file to follow where my files are. I do not want to edit autoexec if my drive letter or path changes. Just posting beginner guide doesn't help. I need commands that loads the certain files from specific directory wherever the directory is. Is it in C: drive E: drive or somewhere else. Does anybody even want to understand 😁

Put the mountings in conf files of the game folder and load them with the command. I think dosbox understands basic relative paths (.\ or .. Etc).

One solution could be, to simulate drag and drop function of dosbox in autoexecutor section in config file. If somebody knows how to do that it would be a solution. Anybody?

There are varios ways you could do what you want to do:
1: use the -conf and -userconf command line switches. The userconf stacks up, so you can have general autoexec section that is true for all games (for example "mount c .\dosgames") and additional stuff in the autoexec section of the userconf (you can have an empty conf with just the [autoexec] section - or just parts of the other sections you want to override).
2. use just one conf to mount the top folder of your games (again for example "mount c .\dosgames") and batch filesin that folder that have all aditional commands (c:, cd game, imgmount bla/game.iso, game exe). And launch that batch.

You might not be able to do it the way you want but if you think differently the outcome can be the same 😉

If Dosbox doesn't understand paths in the way you require, you can use a batch file to assemble the configuration from stubs. Hopefully that will offer the flexibility you require.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4419868/wh … in-a-batch-file
http://ss64.com/nt/syntax-redirection.html

Dominus wrote:

There are varios ways you could do what you want to do:
1: use the -conf and -userconf command line switches. The userconf stacks up, so you can have general autoexec section that is true for all games (for example "mount c .\dosgames") and additional stuff in the autoexec section of the userconf (you can have an empty conf with just the [autoexec] section - or just parts of the other sections you want to override).
2. use just one conf to mount the top folder of your games (again for example "mount c .\dosgames") and batch filesin that folder that have all aditional commands (c:, cd game, imgmount bla/game.iso, game exe). And launch that batch.

So where do I put the commands?
It doesn't work in end of the dosbox.conf file, so do I have to generate some kind of new file that dosbox listens or how it is done?
I have little to none experience in DOS so simplest things can be tricky. Can you give some example how to get mount c.\dosgames to work.
I already know that .\ means the current directory, but how to get it work?
My setup is that i have a WarCraft2 folder that contains the game files and the dosbox portable in the folders "root"
dosbox.conf file exist in the path WarCraft2\Data\Settings\dosbox.conf does that have to do anything why I can't get the .\ working or is the problem somewhere else?

Put the conf in the Warcraft2 folder and it may work (mount c .\ or maybe ./)

Or/and set the working folder in whatever bat or cmd you use to launch Dosbox. The mount c .\ might be relative to the dosbox.conf file OR the working folder. I'm no longer on Windows so I can't test that stuff.

Open Notepad and put the following in it:

1[autoexec]
2mount c .
3imgmount d .\war2tod.iso -fs iso
4c:
5cd \
6WAR2
7exit

and save it as dosbox.conf in the game's folder.

Add another txt file to the game's folder and add:

1"C:\Program Files (x86)\DOSBox\DOSBox.exe" -conf dosbox.conf

and save it as WarCraft2.bat or whatver name you want. You can drag a shortcut from this batch file to wherever you want. You should be able to start the game simply by double clicking your shortcut if the game is already configured. You can change the name and icon of the shortcut to whatever you want.

OK guys, i have figured out what have been the problem. I use DosBoxPortable that uses config directory of .\data\settings\dosbox.conf
however the local directory (like command: mount c .\war) is .\app\DosBox\war so now that i figured out where the things have to be to take effect all the commands started to work. So for atleast now the problem is solved, I get back to you guys when I encounter new troubles... or (if evrything goes as planned) I post my single click portable dos creation:D