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i have started going through all my old games and would like to learn how to make desktop icons that launch them. they run fine in DOSBox but i get tired of having to mount them every time. is there any way you could teach me how to make desktop icons that launch the games through DOSBox?? thanks again.

Add the mount commands to the autoexec section of the conf file for the game and add it to a DOSBox shortcut with the "-conf" switch:

http://www.sierrahelp.com/Utilities/Emu ... rtcut.html

wow thanks!!! i fumbled my way through it. there is still alot i don't understand, but i managed to get might and magic 4 & 5 - world of xeen running in 1920x1080 from the shortcut!!
now i got alot of work cut out for me!! lol

Have you considered using a front-end like ProgGammaX? I prefer to have a list of all the Dos games and just click on the one I want to play. To me that's easier than a bunch of icons. But I also have over 75 Dos games. So creating shortcuts for all of them would be a bit of a headache

hmmm i didn't even know i could do anything like that. does it come up like the loader for scumm??

omg i love it, u guys r great!!! i can't wait to get this set up!! thanks for the info!!

edit: hmmm is there any kind of database that u can download to put the game info in for u?? and do u have any suggestions on which one is best to use??

You just use the GUI of the frontend to add games and it builds the database for you. DBGL has one package that includes a number of freeware/shareware games already added.