I’m too lazy to type in the dos commands to navigate to a game and then dir /p it to find out what the .exe is called to start the game, so i created a pretty table to quickly start it up 🙂
notice that i didn’t load any keyb.sys ! Special chars have to be translated if you use a different layout
at the end of my autoexec.bat startup, dosmenu.bat is called
here’s what’s inside
@cls
@echo ╔══════════════════════☺☺══Lazy DOS Menu by Jigo═☺☺═════════════════════╗
@echo ║ 1= Doom 16= 31= BMH ║
@echo ║ 2= Doom2 17= 32= BMP ║
@echo ║ 3= Dark Forces 18= 33= Pizza Connection ║
@echo ║ 4= Duke 3D 19= 34= Epic Pinball ║
@echo ║ 5= Hexen 20= Comanche 35= Pinball Dreams ║
@echo ║ 6= ROTT 21= Descent 36= Pinball Fantasies║
@echo ║ 7= Wolf3D 22= X-Wing 37= Pinball Illusions║
@echo ║ 8= 23= Wing Commander1 38= ║
@echo ║ 9= 24= Wing Commander2 39= ║
@echo ║ 10= Colonization 25= Wing Commander3 40= Stunts ║
@echo ║ 11= Civilization 26= Frontier: Elite 41= ║
@echo ║ 12= Master of Magic 27= Aces of the Pac. 42= ║
@echo ║ 13= Master of Orion 28= Aces over Europe 43= ║
@echo ║ 14= Jagged Alliance 29= SWOTL 44= ║
@echo ║ 15= JA: Deadly Games 30= 45= ║
@echo ║ ║
@echo ║ ║
@echo ╚═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
@echo on
this basically display just a table which you can edit yourself
Each number has an according batchfile in my c:\batches folder. 1.bat, 2.bat etc.
example of 1.bat:
@echo off
d:\
cd\
cd doom
doom
call dosmenu.bat