it could probably done in Linux but not in Windows. People tried that and hosed their Windows 😀 (since it means all exe/com files are opened with Dosbox -> not a good idea on a system where every program uses exe 😀)

Vlad managed to isolate DOS executables for his VDMSound Launchpad. Never looked too close at how he was doing it.

One possibility would be to do it via a shell extension. Something Like:

1REGEDIT4
2
3[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\Run In DOSBox]
4
5[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\Run In DOSBox\command]
6@="DOSBox.bat \"%1\""
7
8[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\comfile\shell\Run In DOSBox]
9
10[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\comfile\shell\Run In DOSBox\command]
11@="DOSBox.bat \"%1\""
12
13[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\batfile\shell\Run In DOSBox]
14
15[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\batfile\shell\Run In DOSBox\command]
16@="DOSBox.bat \"%1\""

and a bat of

1C:\DOSBox\dosbox.exe -conf <path_to_your_conf> -c "mount -u c" -c "mount C ." -c "C:" -c "%~n1%~x1"

I guess it would also take having some global defaults set before hand, such as a default folder mounded as C:, but those could be set main conf file.

And treat .com as .exe files? Can it be done?

The above reg file will add an item for EXE, COM and BAT. Not that it will not discriminate between types of EXE files, but it will only be invoked when the user selects it.

Dominus wrote:

it could probably done in Linux but not in Windows. People tried that and hosed their Windows 😀 (since it means all exe/com files are opened with Dosbox -> not a good idea on a system where every program uses exe 😀)

Integrate dosbox with FAR manager is very easy on windows. Of course is not at OS level, but is great way to use DOS software, very transparent from a user point of view, like wine

I preffer to do a batch file for every DOS game, much better control