create file with notepad
save it as vogons.bat (not vogons.bat.txt)
right click on it select create shortcut
right click on shortcut select properties -- shortcut -- select icon
job done

i know how to create a shortcut with icon, but i still want to know how to load the batch content without a conf file to load ...

Hmm this doesn't look right.

AFAIK you:

1. Create a shortcut of DOSBOX.EXE
2. Edit the properties of that shortcut and add -conf df.conf -noconsole -exit "c:\dagger\fall z.cfg"

Plan B is more complicated, but does what you're after:

1. Create and test the batch file
2. Use a BAT to EXE utility
3. Extract and inject an icon
4. Built the EXE

I used option B in order to build a portable Version of ScummVM that uses relative paths for all the folders. But this shouldn't be necessary with DOSBox.

look up the dosbox manual on -c

thank you so far

in linux i made shellscript using "-c command" and created a link to application ...

1#/bin/bash
2dosbox -c "c:\dagger\dagger~1.bat" -noconsole -exit -fullscreen

Probably the easiest way to do this is to use a program called dosshell http://www.loonies.narod.ru/dosshell.htm

It is a front end for DOSbox and makes playing DOS games as easy as clicking on the game's icon from within the DOSShell program.

jmcinvale wrote:

Probably the easiest way to do this is to use a program called dosshell http://www.loonies.narod.ru/dosshell.htm

It is a front end for DOSbox and makes playing DOS games as easy as clicking on the game's icon from within the DOSShell program.

Except that he is using Linux.

Title has Windows XP in it so I assumed he was using XP. I think the linux reference was how he did it in linux.

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