so i downloaded arena and its a great game but its a pain in the but to start it up on dosbox is there any quicker way to do it without taking so long to start it up

If you put all the mount commands in the autoexec portion of the Dosbox.conf file then it will load faster. However, you can only do this if you ONLY use dosbox for Arena. If you use it for other games as well, then there is more setup that needs to be done.

you have the wrong mentality to play Arena when you think it takes too long to install it.

not install, the time it takes to type it all up.

use to annoy me until i learnt of the config shortcut KoW said.

Ow I am sorry, didn't realize it. It's always very late here in germany when I visit this forum.

Just make a custom config file and a shortcut that redirects to the config file.


EDIT
I was going to show you exactly how to do it, but it's late and I'm tired. Tomorrow I might do it. I'm not promising anything, though.

http://dfendreloaded.sourceforge.net/Download.html

Grab this frontend for dosbox, I use this one works great.
Or if someone else has any other suggestions.

sorry to reply to an old topic but i forgot d started this and was about to ask the same thing again anyway...


thatnks for your help but im a bit thick and dont really understandsome of the computer talk so can you dumb it down a bit (or a lot) thanks

okay, find the folder where you installed dosbox. then open the CONF file with notepad or other .txt editer.

then go right to the bottom and find [autoexec]. under that type:

mount c c:\arenaC:arena

where c c:\arena is the drive and folder of arena
where C: is the drive that you installed arena

so if you have instelled it under anther folder: eg dosgames on D: you will have:

mount d d:\dosgames\arenad:arena

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you can also set up the cycles automatically in here, find the [cpu] about half way down. a good setting is:

core=normalcycles=21000cycleup=100cycledown=100

this means that the cylces are at 21000
and can be adjusted up or down by 100.

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If you do this then you will have to edit dosbox again if you want to play another game with it, but for now to play arena just save the CONF file and run dosbox.