Loading DOS games w/o having to mount, chdir, run *.exe each time

Hi there - I have Retrobat working great with some old consoles games i.e. they load instantly. With DOS games though, the DOSBox window will appear and I'll have to manually mount my games directory, cd into the relevant game directory, and then execute the relevant .exe..

I can obviously add mount c c:\roms\dos to the config file and that'll save me one step at least, but is there a setting I can use or environment variable I can create/pass/use to load the games without having to type each time?

Thanks in advance for any pointers!

Hello,

DOSBox standalone need a little bit knowledge on how to make a config file with autoexec section that can mount automatically the drives you need. I have not enough time to teach you how to do that so I can only recommand you to search some tutorials about it. DOSBox need a config file for each games with specific parameters.

Sorry for not being able to tell you more but this will eventually require that I write an entire tutorial and tutorials already exist.

For the next upcoming RetroBat release (v4) we'll use dosbox pure libretro core as default emulator which will make games configuration really more easy.

lee337reilly wrote:Hi there - I have Retrobat working great with some old consoles games i.e. they load instantly. With DOS games though, the DOSBox window will appear and I'll have to manually mount my games directory, cd into the relevant game directory, and then execute the relevant .exe..

I can obviously add mount c c:\roms\dos to the config file and that'll save me one step at least, but is there a setting I can use or environment variable I can create/pass/use to load the games without having to type each time?

Thanks in advance for any pointers!

Hello the most simple way is to use my tool to convert game from the exodos collection : https://github.com/Voljega/ExoDOSConverter/releases

You can also read to documentation for Batocera which should mostly apply to Retrobat too (just change linux pathes to windows) https://wiki.batocera.org/emulators:dos?s[]=dosbox