DOSBox - anyone using it?

[studmuff]

Hi guys,

I'm wondering if anyone using DOSBox?  I wanted to know if there is a program were it can be set up to run DOS games without using the command prompts.  Either DOSBox or another.  I use Maximus Arcade and it allows use of DOSBox.

My OS is Vista and I use Maximus Arcade as my frontend - latest version.

[Congui]

Hi there.

I'm at work at this moment, but here's basically what you do (I'll asume you're already installed dosbox, and you're kind of familiar with it).  In your dosbox directory, create for each game a .conf file.  For example, there's a game called Digger, you create a Digger.conf file with all the parameters and commands needed.  Then create a shortcut that points (targets) to that conf file.  This is done in the shortcut's properties, under the shortcut tab in the target textbox:
"C:\Program Files\DOSBox-0.65\DOSBox.exe Dexter.conf". 

Anyway, let me get home and confirm this.

Hope this helps.

Cheers, 
Congui

[brian_hoffman]

D-fend is a DOSBOX FE that is EASY to use.
You setup the programs using a wizard then can make a shortcut to your programs and load them from any FE or explorer

[ahofle]

Another vote for D-Fend.

[NOP]

This is perhaps pushing the boundaries of the acceptable usage here, but if you're looking for stuff to run under DOSBox, this is a project I am personally involved with, and rather proud of.

Search google for:
The_Complete_DOS_Collection_Release_1_(1980-1989)

[studmuff]

D-fend is a DOSBOX FE that is EASY to use.
You setup the programs using a wizard then can make a shortcut to your programs and load them from any FE or explorer

How do you make the shortcuts?

[ahofle]

This is perhaps pushing the boundaries of the acceptable usage here, but if you're looking for stuff to run under DOSBox, this is a project I am personally involved with, and rather proud of.

Search google for:
The_Complete_DOS_Collection_Release_1_(1980-1989)

WOW 
Hard to believe 10 years of software fits on a single CD.

[NOP]

heh, yeah, isn't that a hoot!  And that is literally every single DOS game we could lay our hands on from that time frame.  (please tell us if you find any we're missing)

Things EXPLODE from there though.  I think the 1995 year alone is like 25gig and counting right now.

Those of us working on the project are trying to speculate at which year did DOS really peak with the most games released?  Obviously after windows 95 came out, most developers went windows, and DOS slowly faded into obscurity...

Anyway, thanks for the interest and sorry about the thread hijack.

[Hoopz]

WOW 
Hard to believe 10 years of software fits on a single CD.

Yeah, but think about how many floppies, and I mean REAL floppies, would it take to hold all those games.   

[ahofle]

Things EXPLODE from there though.  I think the 1995 year alone is like 25gig and counting right now.

Thanks for your work.  Let us know if this project has any news (especially early nineties)!  I have good memories of playing Stunts, Star Control, Might & Magic III, and Scorched Earth back in college. 

[NOP]

thanks!
I'm doing 1990 right now, which has stunts and star control in it... 
we're probably going to release 1 year at a time now, considering how long each one will take with the quantity of games, so they will trickle in as we search, sort and catalog.

I'm not sure who posted that we're going to release 1990-2008 this year, since it took us 1.5 years just to get that chunk done, and I suspect we're about 1/5 finished.  (there are over 11,000 titles that we know of, and we're finding more all the time)

Everyone's gotta have their hobbies I guess.