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i wanted to play a few old pc games from my shelves (Noctropolis!!!!!!) and make 2 exe

1. where i put my cd in and hit the .exe without having to open dosbox (i know how to mount the cd rom etc. i edited the ini)

2. where i can make an image of my cd (i think if you copy the whole cd folder from old dosgames it wont always work?) and mount the image and create a exe where it starts my game with mounted image, is this possible?

or is this only possible if you make a WINDOWS installer like gog.com games?
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Caine123: i wanted to play a few old pc games from my shelves (Noctropolis!!!!!!) and make 2 exe

1. where i put my cd in and hit the .exe without having to open dosbox (i know how to mount the cd rom etc. i edited the ini)

2. where i can make an image of my cd (i think if you copy the whole cd folder from old dosgames it wont always work?) and mount the image and create a exe where it starts my game with mounted image, is this possible?

or is this only possible if you make a WINDOWS installer like gog.com games?
It is possible to create shorcuts.

_Let's say your game is in folder c:\game
_Make a copy of your dosbox folder to c:\game so you have c:\game\dosbox\dosbox.exe
_Make 2 copies of your conf file. Rename them to something like cd.conf and image.conf
_Change the autoexec in cd.conf to mount the cd and change the autoexec in image.conf to mount the image.

_Now create 2 shortcuts. In Start In for both of them, put the following:
"c:\game\dosbox"

_In Target put the following:
For cd you put
"c:\game\dosbox\dosbox.exe" -conf "\cd.conf"
while in the second you
"c:\game\dosbox\dosbox.exe" -conf "\image.conf"

Now all you have to do is run the shortcut to launch the game either with a mounted cd or a mounted cd image.
Post edited January 22, 2015 by ZFR
You should look into shell scripting. That's the sort of thing that can be done from the command-line interface, and a script is a text file that contains a sequence of commands. You can then double-click the script and it will perform the tasks, such as starting the game with a specific setup.

I can't offer any advice, I'm a Unix user, but there is tons of information across the internet. I'm sure you'll find something.