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[Rhodan]

Fastest way to start a game using Dosbox:
Drag game.exe onto the Dosbox icon.
Play.

It automatically mounts and runs any file you drag onto it.

[Ioric Kittencuddler]

O rly?

Didn't know that.  I gotta try it once I get computer uninfected again.

[Micro102]

Fastest way to start a game using Dosbox:
Drag game.exe onto the Dosbox icon.
Play.

It automatically mounts and runs any file you drag onto it.

THANK YOU!

lol i thought dosbox was gonna be a pain to handle.


EDIT: ok......is the other download thats a pdf the manual?

[cowofdoom78963]

I dident know you could do that! Is that a new feature or something?

[Rhodan]

Dunno, I've been using it like that for years to play Might&Magic: World of Xeen.  Worked for any other games, too.
Did some searching and this method is not mentioned on the Dosbox wiki.  Other people use it too, though.
Odd how such a great feature goes unmentioned. :/  Maybe it doesn't work for everyone?

[qwertyuiopas]

Dragging an icon over another gives that icon as a commandline parameter.
Check the details about the command-line usage and it wll probably tell you that dosbox <game.exe> should automatically load it.
Windows feature + properly designed program = Useful unintended feature.

Also, some programs respond to dropping a file into the window.
Maybe dosbox does? If not, maybe they could add it? (Only works if it creates it's own window though, not if it uses a prompt)

[Rhodan]

That must be it.  It's pretty awesome either way.
There's a frontend for Dosbox available, too.  Might be useful, I always forget how to fiddle with the CPU cycles.

[Puck]

some of the f keys, I think f11 f12...

What always irks me a bit is how the readme tells you to be careful, you can damage your CPU. since i cannot really imagine how that would be possible, I dont know how to be careful

[Rhodan]

I guess if you put the cycles too high, you CPU starts going at 100% the whole time.  I guess that could damage it in a way.

[Micro102]

anyone know where the gameplay manual for wilderness is?

[Vucar Fikodastesh]

In my experience, the best thing to do is just set core=dynamic and cycles=max. That works for 99% of the  programs I run. For the others, I just hit ctrl-F11 to lower the cycles.

I have a dedicated DOS directory with four subdirectories.

The first is COMMAND. In that folder I have all of the programs and BAT shortcuts I want: QBASIC, EDIT, FIND, PEDIT, XXCOPY, and a shortcut to Norton Commander- which I almost never use.

The second is the games folder.

The third and fourth are the NC and Qbasic program folders.

Every folder and subfolder has been renamed to work with 8.3 file names.

One of the more annoying parts of using Dosbox from the CLI is that you have to keep checking the names of the game executable. Usually by typing DIR /P.

I worked out a unique solution to this problem. Inside every game folder I created a batch file called RUN.BAT. The batch file has a single line with the name of the game file. So, for Betrayal at Krondor it would say "krondor".

So, when I want to play Betrayal at Krondor, for example, all I have to do is launch Dosbox and type

Code: [Select]

cd games/bak
run
Now the really cool part is that I have the entire DOS folder on a network share. So, from any of the computers on my network, all I have to type is

Code: [Select]

cd games/bak
runOf course, this is done using network drives and the Dosbox autoexec.

All things considered, it is a neat and elegant system, and I am very proud of it.

[Sowelu]

anyone know where the gameplay manual for wilderness is?

You correctly surmised that the PDF you can download is, in fact, the manual!  Have at it

[Ioric Kittencuddler]

Holy crap Micro!  Stop making everyone else do your thinking for you!

[cowofdoom78963]

I guess if you put the cycles too high, you CPU starts going at 100% the whole time.  I guess that could damage it in a way.

I always push my cycles into the ten thousands, I guess thats not a very smart thing to do is it ?

[Micro102]

i downloaded it but it didnt look like a manual so i was double checking.

57 pages.........*sighs*