Start DOSBox with the options specified in "configfilelocation". Multiple -conf options may be present. See Section 13 for more details. Start DOSBox using the language specified in "languagefilelocation". See Section 14 for more details. Setup DOSBox to emulate a specific type of machine.
For some special vga effects the machinetype vgaonly can be used, note that this disables svga capabilities and might be slower due to the higher emulation precision. The machinetype affects the video card and the available sound cards.
Output will be redirected to stdout. Same as -noautoexec, but adds config. Uses the scaler specified by "scaler". See the DOSBox configuration file for the available scalers.
Similar to the -scaler parameter, but tries to force usage of the specified scaler even if it might not fit. You can specify this command more than once. In this case it will move to second program if the first one fails to start. See Section 9: "Serial Multiplayer feature. Other people should be able to use escaped double quotes inside the double quotes. To get a list of the internal commands type "HELP" at the prompt. Sets the amount of free space available on a drive in megabytes regular drives or kilobytes floppy drives.
This is a simpler version of -size. Sets the name of the drive to "drivelabel". For Windows: label is extracted from "Real Drive". If you do specify a label, this label will be kept as long as the drive is mounted. It will not be updated!! Forces use of the aspi layer. Forces use of ioctl commands. Valid on all systems, under windows the -noioctl switch has to be present to make use of the -usecd switch.
Enables to select the drive that should be used by SDL. See the information at the -usecd entry above. The same is true for mounting the root of any other drive, except for CD-ROMs due to their read-only nature.
Otherwise if you or DOSBox make a mistake you may lose all your files. You should always install your game inside DOSBox. So if you have the game on CD you always even after installation! MOUNT also works with images but only if you use external program, for example both are free :.
It can save the current settings and language strings to disk. Information about all possible sections and properties can be found in Section "The configuration options file". Write the current configuration settings to a file in a specified location. The configuration file controls various settings of DOSBox: the amount of emulated memory, the emulated sound cards and many more things.
BAT as well. See Section "The configuration options file" for more information. Write the current language settings to a file in a specified location. The language file controls all visible output of the internal commands and the internal DOS. See Section "The Language File" for more information.
Switches DOSBox to a more secure mode. It's not possible either to create a new configfile or languagefile in this mode. Warning: you can only undo this mode by restarting DOSBox. This can be used to store the value when using batch files. Both "-set" and "-get" work from batch files and can be used to set up your own preferences for each game.
Although it may be easier to use separate DOSBox's configuration files for each game instead. Program to reduce the amount of available conventional memory. Useful for old programs which don't expect much memory to be free. Make DOSBox reread the directory structure. Most games have an EXE file in their directory that you can run.
Most of the time, the file is in the root folder. Please consult the documentation of your game for which file is needed to start the game. So now, I just type this:. The steps described above are closely aligned with how DOS Based operating systems behave natively. However modern operating system allow for more user friendly although less authentic ways of playing your favorite games.
If the steps above seem tedious or confusing you can try some of these other guides. In most cases these guides will still require you to setup a working DOSBox environment.
NOTE: If you have problems with launching the game, unrecognizable errors being spit out, saving settings, or having the game drop out while running it, one thing to try is to make sure all the files are not set to Read Only. In Windows, select the folder of the game, right click and hit properties, uncheck Read Only if it is checked, and apply to all sub folders. If you have other errors, please search the forums first before posting a question.
Yay, you've gotten your game to run! If you are using another operating system e. Keep in mind that booting from an MS-DOS diskette is not going to allow you to have access to the files used with other operating systems. However, if you're erasing everything and starting over, this would allow you to delete all pre-existing information and start over.
Notice For some commands and options to work in the Windows 10 command line, you must run the command line as administrator. Make sure you have 4. Start the file, then make sure that Core files and Desktop Shortcut are selected. Click Next and Install to continue the installation, then click Close. Before you start installing your software, create a directory on your C: drive for the files.
For example, if you would like to play games, create a DosGames directory. Make sure that your folder name is 8 characters or less. Once the directory has been created, move your DOS files to the directory or install the DOS software directly into the directory.
Before you get started, make sure all your DOS programs are installed in a single directory. Start DOSBox with the shortcut on your desktop.
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