DosBOX Tips

Post » Sat May 28, 2011 7:01 pm

The other day I downloaded DosBox, Daggerfall and then followed the gamesas pdf to install D-Fall.

At the end of the PDF, it tells you to enter the commands:
mount c c:\### -freesize 1000mount d c:\###\dfcd -t cdrom -label Daggerfallc:cd\daggerdagger

Every single time. ### is the directory you mounted first, if you follow instructions to the letter, its "dosgames".

But if like me, you don't have extra dosgames and want D-Fall to run everytime, then I found out you can do this:

Type in your computer's search bar "edit config" and hit enter. Notepad will open. Scroll to the bottom of the document and change the very last thing to exactly this:
[autoexec]# Lines in this section will be run at startup.mount c c:\### -freesize 1000mount d c:\###\dfcd -t cdrom -label Daggerfallc:cd\daggerdagger

Now everytime you run Dosbox, it will start D-Fall. Even better, if you have the DoxBox shortcut on you desktop, right click it, change icon, browse to the ### directory, Dagger and then click the daggerfall icon (its a skulll). Now the shortcut on your desktop looks like Daggerfall and because it runs straightaway, you can play it quite quickly!

Hope that helps anyone, :)
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Post » Sat May 28, 2011 3:06 pm

Even better - you can do this *even* if you have extra DOS games. All you need is to save several versions of config file under various names and/or in various locations (just keep them in respective games' folders for clarity), each with their own extra commands at the end (and other parameters bets suited for each game, too!), and write the "-conf yourgame.conf" into the shortcut you use for launching the game.
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