Launching PC Games

[Jonny]

This didn't get transfered over so I thought I'd repost.

I was wondering if it would be possible to do this.

I would like to have a

seperate category of PC Games. When I go under the sublist there would

be a big list of PC games that I have loaded. I know with some

frontends you can do this by configuring an emulator config to look

for .lnk (shortcut) files instead of rom files. I was just curious if

you could do this with GameEx.

The following link would be the method for doing it with MameWah. I'm

just curious if it is done in a similar fashion.

http://home.comcast.net/~cpviewer/downloads/pcgames.ini

[Tom Speirs]

You can do the same thing, but have to use .bat files instead of .lnk files.

Here is a sample emulator config:

[Emulator_6]

Enabled=True

STARTPAGENAME=PC Apps

TITLETEXT=PC Apps

StartPageLogo=

ROMFilter=*.bat

RomsInFolders=False

RomPath=C:\lnks

SnapPath=

WorkingPath=C:\lnks

MapKeys=False

WaitBeforeKeys=

SendKeys=

ReplaceDash=True

ReplaceUnder=True

Capitals=True

RemoveBrackets=True

ShowDesktop=True

Debug=False

MAPFile=

AlsoLaunch=

Command=cmd.exe /c "[ROMPath]\[RomFile]"

OLDatZip=

On win 98/me you would use command.exe instead of cmd.exe

In C:\lnks you would have batch files (text documents with the bat extension)

For example:

notepad.bat

calclator.bat

Here is how your .bat file might look (edit with notepad)

C:

CD "C:\killergame"

killergame.exe

The MapKeys setting won't work, as GameEx can't tell what the application exe file is.

Hope this helps.

Tom.

[Jonny]

Thanks Tom. I'm getting a bit closer.

The PC Apps menu comes up on the start menu and the submenu shows the bat file. But when I select it I get a command line screen that shows the location of the bat file then has the word PAUSE, in capitals like that. It then says to press any key to continue, and when I do so it sends me right back to GameEx.

My bat file has the following entry:

C:

CD "C:\Program Files\ArmagetronAdvanced"

ArmagetronAdvanced.exe

And the config is identical to yours. Do you know where the problem lies? Is it something with my bat file? Thanks again for the help.

[Tom Speirs]

Make sure Debug is set to false.

Also ensure the batch file runs ok outside of GameEx. I suspect there may be an error in it.

Let me know.

Thanks

[Jonny]

Wow, the difference between a backslash and a forwardslash is tremendous. I figured it out after reviewing my config files. Thanks a lot!

EDIT: Typo

[h8sh8]

Uploaded a config for running DOS games with DosBox, if anyone needs it for the older games.