2016-01-21, 21:44
(2016-01-21, 06:49)dcquence Wrote: Yeah, I would have never thought of going that route. I will be doing that tongiht and trying my luck.
When dealing with DOSBox it's the only way (except this time the executable is DOSBox.exe of course). You need a shortcut for DOSBox games because what tells DOSBox to run a specific game is the configuration file's Autoexec.bat section (which emulates a DOS PC's Autoexec.bat file) rather than the command line. You call a conf file (or two, even, like the appendconfig command in RetroArch) via command line and, in the Autoexec.bat portion of the conf used to run the game, you add every command needed to run the game itself (mount CD image, call executable with command line arguments, and so on). What happens is that DOSBox runs, loads the emulated Autoexec.bat and finally the game runs. Seems complicated at first but becomes very easy once you know what to do.
DOSBox is a lovely thing because you can have a myriad of config files to emulate various eras of DOS gaming and further config files for each game.