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First post, by yochenhsieh

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I'm still new to mac. please forgive me if I hit something that is obvious or impossible by design...

I created different folder for each DOS game:

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Each game folder contains its own dosbox.app, but I renamed it and changed its icon:

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Then I created alias for each game_dir/game.app, until here they all works like I wanted:

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Each alias can launch each game using dosbox.

However, in the launchpad only one alias will show. As if the launchpad considers these alias are same. Is it possible to make the launchpad show all aliases?
Thank you

edit: tried using symbolic links but still don't work.

Reply 1 of 1, by yochenhsieh

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I created automator app for each game using Automator that will only run game(dosbox). Then place app inside Applications.

Have to replace icons for each app again though. Fortunately I don't have many Star Trek DOS games that I want to run in mac...

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