How in the world do I use DOSBOX?!?

Question

I just wanted to be able to play Duke Nukem 3D like I used to. I consider myself to be good at computers, but I don't have a clue as how to use DOS. Maybe I'm just a Windows guy.

Please let me know how to run Duke Nukem 3D in DOSBOX.

Answer 1

LOL No matter how hard microsoft tries to hide it DOS is in every version of windows to date.



As for your question go to "Start" "RUN" type in "CMD" that will bring up the DOS prompt, then you need to find the path to your game



example: c:\program files\dukenukum\ ...exe

Answer 2

It maybe easier to run your game with the compatibility wizard, then with dosbox. I will link.

Answer 3

is the game on the CD or copied into a folder on your drive?



first at DOSBox's command prompt "Z:>" you need to "mount" the folder you want it to use as your C:\ drive (or CDROM drive)



so a way you could go about it is make a folder named "DOSBox" directly in C:\

so C:\DOSBox



in there put folder(s) for your game(s)

so C:\DOSBox\dukenukem3d



now at DOSBox's command prompt mount that folder as "C:"

so...

Z:>mount C "C:\DOSBox"



then you will get a C:\> prompt (but it will use C:\DOSbox as your C:\ drive in that example)



another example:

I use Linux and in it the Home directory is written as "~/"

I put my DOSBox folder in my Home directory

~/DOSBox



to mount it at DOSBox's command prompt it's:

Z:>mount C "~/DOSBox"

so that directory is then considered by DOSBox as the C: drive



I get the command prompt

C:>

I can then change directories to my games folder ( ~/DOSBox/games )

cd ./games

so it then says:

C:\games>

then I cd into the folder of the game I want

C:\games>cd ./TIM

and then I can start the game:

C:\games\TIM>TIM



mounting a CDROM is kind of the same but a little different

see the FAQs: http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?page=FAQ



NOTE: you can create a config file and in it you can specify to mount a specific drive automatically



the lower part of my config file is like this:



[autoexec]

# Lines in this section will be run at startup.



@echo off

pause



echo Mounting "~/DOSBox" as harddisk drive C.

mount C "~/DOSBox"



C:



echo changing directory to "./games"

cd ./games



that automatically mounts the my DOSBox directory as C: and changes dirctories to my "games" folder. (You can also set DOSBox to automatically open in fullscreen mode. There should be a example config file for you to go by.)



To set a config file you use the config command:

config -writeconf path-to-config-file



see the wiki for more info:

http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?page=DOSBoxWiki

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