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Creating a DOSBox shortcut to a game with parameters for that game?

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First post, by The Frederick

Posted on 2015-06-20, 12:37

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I'm trying to make a DOSBox shortcut that will run a game immediately, and I get that you use the game's directory as a parameter. Is there anyway way to have parameters for the game in this shortcut?

For example,

C:\DOXBox\dosbox.exe "C:\game\game.exe -debugmode"

Reply 1 of 3, by Dominus

Posted on 2015-06-20, 13:18

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yes, use a batch file and point to that instead of the exe.
(in case you don't know that, a batch file is a text file with the file ending *.bat (for example game.bat) with the necessary start commands (for example game.exe -debugmode) in there).

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