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First post, by avidsavage

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Yo!

I have an old DOS game I want my son to be able to play on our Mac. I want it to run in full screen. To do this, I have to open Terminal and run DOSBox from there with the -conf and use a configuration file saying I want DOSBox to automatically run the program and to open in full screen. I don't want him to have to see any command lines.

In Windows, I can create a shortcut to a program, go to the properties, and add options to it. For example, I did this to run SimCity4 in a window for myself so I could play the game and multi-task with work.

Is there any way to do this in Macintosh? Don't have an option to do this with an alias like a shortcut in Windows. I tried a bash script, but I didn't know what I was doing. Some people recommended an AppleScript, but wouldn't know where to start with that. I thought there might be something I could add to the Info.plist file, but I couldn't find anything for that on Apple's developer website.

This might be more of a Mac question, but how can I open an application via clicking an icon and include options for running it?

Thanks in advance!