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Creating a standalone install

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First post, by hunterjwizard

Posted on 2014-01-10, 19:54

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Hi all, I am very new to dosbox and don't have a lot of time to spend learning every aspect of it. I'm not even entirely sure how to ask this, but here goes.

I have an old game(Lords of the Realm II) I am going to be distributing to several computers. Its runs ok on windows XP but is a lot better inside the dosbox environment. The problem is kids are going to be using it, and getting it running in dosbox is a little complicated. I've had other games in the past(bought from gog.com for example) where I was able to just click on a shortcut and it would launch dosbox pre-configured and just run, and all would be well.

I have no idea how to do that, though. I'm not even sure how to get started, haha.

Help?

Thanks!

Reply 1 of 4, by Jorpho

Posted on 2014-01-10, 20:45

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Pretty much all you need to do is add the lines you would normally type when you start DOSBox to the end of your DOSBox.conf, in the [autoexec] section. Or if you like, you can make a copy of your DOSBox.conf, make your edits in that copy of the file, and then specify the copy in the DOSBox shortcut using the "-conf" parameter. Details are in the DOSBox readme.

Alternatively, you can just use one of the many DOSBox frontends available, such as D-Fend Reloaded.