Dos Games / DosBox.... Questions

[dalomarius10]

Anybody get old Dos games to work under XP? I have a billion or so old Dos Games i want to incorporate into GameEx. But they cant configure properly, ie soundcard and what not. But i heard of a program called DosBox, that is suppsed to help.. i downloaded it but not sure what to do with it. Anybody have some success with this? Or know how to use it? Or know an alternative? Thx

[Brian Hoffman]

Anybody get old Dos games to work under XP? I have a billion or so old Dos Games i want to incorporate into GameEx. But they cant configure properly, ie soundcard and what not. But i heard of a program called DosBox, that is suppsed to help.. i downloaded it but not sure what to do with it. Anybody have some success with this? Or know how to use it? Or know an alternative? Thx

It will work fine

You may need to you D-fend... Its a dos box FE that will let you setup your games via a wizard...

Then you can create shortcuts to your setup games...

and configure gameex to use the shortcuts...

Oregon Trail and carmen sandiego here we come..

you can find it here... Deja vu

http://www.gameex.info/forums/index.php?s=...ost&p=25979

[dalomarius10]

oregon trail, hahahah! old skew!!! thx again brian

[djrobx]

DOSBox works great.

In the folder where your game is, you'll want to put a dosbox.conf file. Inside the file you can tell it what graphics and sound cards to simulate. There is an autoexec section:

[autoexec]

# Lines in this section will be run at startup.

mount c .

mount b save

c:

play

The mount is important, it tells it what folder the C: drive should represent.

As for integrating with GameEx, what I did for my PC games is make a folder where the "roms" are .BAT files. For each .BAT file there is a corresponding folder.

E.g.

Robot Odyssey.bat :

cd "Robot Odyssey"

..\DosBox\DosBox

I just have GameEx look for .BAT files for its list of "Roms".