Hi! I'm running DOSbox 0.74 on Ubuntu. I've got a few games from GoG, and for the most part they run fine. (I just run dosbox with the config files supplied in the .EXE from GoG)

The only issue is with games using MIDI. I have to start fluidsynth up, (or the qsynth front-end at the minute) and edit the config file every time with the new MIDI port -- so I've been working on a shell script that will start fluidsynth and then start and setup DOSbox for me.

GoG provides at least two conf files for each game, imbedded in the EXE. (which has long since been unpacked ...) In the case of Sim City 2000, these are dosboxSC2000.conf and dosboxSC2000_single.conf. The first is a standard configuration file, and the second is a file containing [autoexec] and the commands to load the game.

The issue I'm having is this: I can't seem to override the two .conf files provided. All I want to do is override the [midi] midiconfig option with whatever port my script detects fluidsynth in... I haven't started trying with the script yet, I've just been doing everything manually to figure out what the script needs to do. So far I have tried various permutations of this:

1dosbox -c "config -set \"midi midiconfig=128:0\"" -conf dosboxSC2000.conf -conf dosboxSC2000_single.conf

My suspicion is that the autoexec is running before the -c command has a chance.

I read somewhere on this forum that setting an environmental variable $DOSBOX_MIDI_MIDICONFIG would override any config file, but it doesn't seem to hold true for this current version of DOSbox.

I might consider trying to run a batch file within the [autoexec] that itself scans for the port and sets itself up, but I'm not sure how easy that would really be... The other option is to have the script run sed or some such on the config file, but that seems clunky.

Any help is appreciated! Thanks