I want to create a batch menu for the GOG version of Blood, for use with D-Fend Reloaded. I'll point the batch file to either of the game executables (BLOOD.EXE and CRYPTIC.EXE). But I want to add some bells and whistles to it, like a box around the text. Is there a tutorial for it? I found one, but it requires me to have DOS files and I don't have DOS installed.
Thanks in advance.
There was a very old (1987) program that would do exactly this, to generate an ASCII box with a menu system for batch file editing afterward. Forget what it was called though, might've had a stupidly simple name like 'makemenu' or something.
Something like this?
@echo off:startclsecho ÉÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ»echo º Menu ºecho ÌÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ͹echo º 1. Blood ºecho º 2. Cryptic Passage ºecho º 3.+ MODS ºecho º 4.+ Multiplayer ºecho º 5.+ Editors ºecho º 6. Setup ºecho º 7. DOS Prompt ºecho º 8. Exit ºecho ÈÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍͼchoice /c12345678 /N Your choice:if errorlevel 8 goto exitif errorlevel 7 goto promptif errorlevel 6 goto setupif errorlevel 5 goto editorsif errorlevel 4 goto multiif errorlevel 3 goto modsif errorlevel 2 goto crypticif errorlevel 1 goto blood:editorsclsecho ÉÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ»echo º Menu ºecho ÌÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ͹echo º 1. Blood ºecho º 2. Cryptic Passage ºecho º 3.+ MODS ºecho º 4.+ Multiplayer ºecho º 5.- Editors ºecho º a. Art Editor ºecho º b. Map Editor ºecho º ºecho º 6. Setup ºecho º 7. DOS Prompt ºecho º 8. Exit ºecho ÈÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍͼchoice /c12345ab678 /N Your choice:if errorlevel 10 goto exitif errorlevel 9 goto promptif errorlevel 8 goto setupif errorlevel 7 goto mapsif errorlevel 6 goto artif errorlevel 5 goto startif errorlevel 4 goto multiif errorlevel 3 goto modsif errorlevel 2 goto crypticif errorlevel 1 goto blood:multiclsecho ÉÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ»
echo º Menu ºecho ÌÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ͹echo º 1. Blood ºecho º 2. Cryptic Passage ºecho º 3.+ MODS ºecho º 4.- Multiplayer ºecho º a. Startserver ºecho º b. Connect ºecho º ºecho º 5.+ Editors ºecho º 6. Setup ºecho º 7. DOS Prompt ºecho º 8. Exit ºecho ÈÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍͼchoice /c1234ab5678 /N Your choice:if errorlevel 10 goto exitif errorlevel 9 goto promptif errorlevel 8 goto setupif errorlevel 7 goto editorsif errorlevel 6 goto connectif errorlevel 5 goto startserverif errorlevel 4 goto startif errorlevel 3 goto modsif errorlevel 2 goto crypticif errorlevel 1 goto bloodetc...
This is what it looks like in DOSBox:
Oh well, thanks for the code! But I also wanted to learn to do them myself. Still, this will be very useful. 😀
Application to create box by command line, windows xp or later
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCpuZuffdIcBcmqUEueXYeg
Download:
https://mega.nz/#F!y9YlWRYK!cuFUQYjjlC-LFbgG4k40GA
http://reimagery.com/fsfd/menu.htm , check out "Medley" in "OTHER SMALL MENUS" section
wrote:Oh well, thanks for the code! But I also wanted to learn to do them myself. Still, this will be very useful. 😀
But now you do!
Mess round with it and see how it works 😀
I do the same thing for old shareware titles like Duke Nukem, Jill of the Jungle, etc where each episode was a separate executable.
keropi wrote on 2016-06-20, 08:49:http://reimagery.com/fsfd/menu.htm , check out "Medley" in "OTHER SMALL MENUS" section
The site has degenerated to the internet archive. But the zip is still available.
(although for me, the first solution worked wonderfully.) This is indeed a nice tool.
Medley is a small yet remarkably full-featured menu program. The program is only 6K and uses a modest 12K RAM when resident.
A second program is used for menu/display configuration, or you can manually create and edit menu files with a text editor.
Features:
Limitations:
Author: Jim Knopf, aka Jim Button (1992).
1992-07-30 release.
Another set of tools still available are FORM from DOSUTILS at http://www.bttr-software.de/products/jhoffmann/
