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« on: June 12, 2013, 12:08:30 AM »
I also add a few other pieces to make my life easier, because I'm lazy:
I set up my directory structure as:
C:\Games
->C:\Games\DOSBOX
--->C:\Games\DOSBOX\CONFIG
->C:\Games\CDROM
->C:\Games\%GAMEDIRs%
I copy each CD into C:\Games\CDROM, under its own directory ( .\Regret, or .\Remorse, or whatever)
I mount C:\Games as the C:\ within DOSBox.
Each games has its own .config file and associated shortcut (shortcut looks like C:\Games\DOSBox\dosbox.exe -conf "C:\Games\DOSBox\CONFIG\moebius.conf")
then at the bottom of the config file I mount the directories and CDROM if required (in addition to any other settings I had to tweak to make the game run the way I want):
[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.
mount c c:\games
mount d c:\games\CDROM\regret
c:
cd crusader
cd regret
regret
This way, C:\Games is completely self-contained and portable (except that it's gotten pretty big. All the CDROM assets are right where they need to be (and as mentioned before, this is where things get installed from). Each game has its own shortcut that I can double-click and have it automagically start. The shortcuts are also all portable from machine to machine.