Dosbox Program Shortcut
Plz ask questions if you need to BTW This is a tutorial made by me.anyways have fun If you notice any typos or anything plz metion that to me thx Btw The Foward slashes (/) mean back slashes 1. Go to the Dosbox Directory 2. Copy the dosbox.conf and paste in the same folder WARNING: When you open the copy of dosbox.conf make sure that 'Always use the selected program to open this kind of file' IS NOT CHECKED.
Open the copy of dosbox.conf with Notepad or Wordpad 4. Scroll all the way down to the bottom. ADVICE: I Recommend that you have your Games Directories in the following directory: C:/Games It Makes it easier to find the games and thats the directory im going to use to show you what to put below autoexec # Lines in this section will be run at startup 5. Right below where it says autoexec # Lines in this section will be run at startup Type Mount c c:/ c: cd Games cd (The name of your game directory) Your Game.exe OPTIONAL: Type exit where i put OPTIONAL to make dosbox exit after you exit your game 6. Exit The Copy of dosbos.conf and save changes WARNING: When you rename The Copy of dosbos.conf make sure you keep the.conf at the end or your file wont work 7. Rename The Copy of dosbos.conf by right clicking it and pressing Rename Then type what ever you want the name of The Copy of dosbos.conf to be 8.
- Create shortcuts for.exe files to open in. Copying from the official DOSBox page: Create a new shortcut to the DOSBox. Program Files DOSBox-0.72 dosbox.
- Create shortcuts for.exe files to open in dosbox. Copying from the official DOSBox page: Create a new shortcut to the. Program Files DOSBox-0.72 dosbox.
Right click your dosbox.exe 9. Press Create Shortcut 10. Place The Shortcut to dosbox on the desktop 11.
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How to use a.conf file with dosbox What is dosbox? Now, decide where you want the shortcut to your dos program to be. I'll use the desktop for now.
Rename that whatever you want (probably the name of the game) 12. Right click the shortcut 13.
The problem with this setting is that it always reverts to 1024 if you change your display settings in the sim (As does your LOD_RADIUS but not alterable here). Ftx au ystw tamworth orbx.
Press properties 14. After where it says Target it probably says 'C:/Program Files/DOSBox-0.72/dosbox.exe' 15. Press space bar after the last quotation marks in 'C:/Program Files/DOSBox-0.72/dosbox.exe' OPTIONAL: You may put -noconsole to take off that extra thing that opens when you run Dosbox but make sure you press the space bar again after typing this to do the next step 16.
Now type -conf 'C:/Program Files/DOSBox-0.72/(YOUR.CONF FILE)' and keep the quotation marks 17. Now run your new shortcut and have fun.