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    • breakbob
      breakbob last edited by

      Hello
      I upgraded my RB to 7.2 because I was hyped about simplicity of DOSBOX being Plug & Play without complexity setup but I don't see any change, games are not loading, DOSBOX launches to command line (this an example for Prawo Krwi game)
      Z:\set ROOT=recalbox/share/roms/dos/Prawo.pc

      I followed instructions and created directory a10.pc where I created Prawo.bat file with following commands:
      Prawo.pc/
      Prawo.pc/dosbox.bat
      Prawo.pc/Prawo.DAT
      Prawo.pc/Prawo.EXE
      This game doesn't have .DAT file but I wrote this command line anyway
      I tried edit bat file for another game like A10 Tank Killer but it have a.exe instead a10.exe and 5 DAT files which aren't titled a10 (mname1.dat, mname2.dat, mname3.dat, player.dat, top1.dat) and I'm not sure which one should be entered in a command line?

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      • Pitch64
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        Put all files of your game into a zip file, put the zip fine into /recalbox/share/roms/dos and select the core libretro_dosbox_pure in the games infos (on a game Start > Edit game > Emulator).

        Pi4 8gb / Alim off / HDD 4To / Argon one v1 / Dernière/Last beta
        GPD Win Max / Dernière/Last beta

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        • breakbob
          breakbob @Pitch64 last edited by

          @Pitch64 Oh joy! I zipped Dreamweb game and it worked! My all DOS games are unzipped so I have some task ahead of me, but yeah I'm happy and so thankful, I wouldn't have guess it myself !!

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          • Grundvardv
            Grundvardv last edited by

            Hello,
            Excuse me if I'm asking a stupid question, but : I have a DOS game, that I have to install on a PC first, to zip the directory, once installed. But : I don't have a PC to do that. Can I copy the "uninstalled" game in the rom directory, and launch the SETUP.EXE of this game in Recalbox directly ? I saw a DOSBOX tutorial (an old one though), where someone was doing that...
            Thanks 🙂

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