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First post, by Ermine18

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Hello everyone,
Anyone know how to write a batch file to configure DOSbox 0.74 to run Daggerfall on Windows 10?
The lines needed to configure DOSbox are:
mount c c:\dosgames -freesize 1000
mount d c:\dosgames\dfcd -t cdrom -label Daggerfall
c:
cd\dagger
dagger
The game runs on my brothers W10 laptop when configured manually but at age 70 he has a hard time getting it right without several tries so I’m looking for a way to get it to run for him with just a double click,
Thanks

Reply 1 of 2, by DosFreak

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The simplest method without using a frontend would be to copy DOSBox to the same directory as daggerfall so that the dosbox.exe resides in the same directory as the daggerfall executable.
Generate a new dosbox config file with the name dosbox.conf
Add your lines to the autoexec area in dosbox.conf (with changes to the paths)
Create a shortcut to the dosbox.exe that is in the daggerfall folder.

You can also do the above without copying dosbox to the game folder using a seperate config file if you want and just have dosbox load the extra config file.

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Reply 2 of 2, by dr_st

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Just add these lines to the end of DOSBOX.CONF, in the [autoexec] section.

If your brother also uses DOSBox for other things, and you do not want it to be in the general configuration file, just create a copy of the file, then put a shortcut on the desktop to run DOSBox with -conf <config_file> argument.

^^ Looks like I was beaten to the punch ^^ 🤣

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