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 π
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 ββββββββββββββββββββββββΊβΊββLazy DOS Menu by JigoββΊβΊββββββββββββββββββββββ
@echo β 1= Doom 16= 31= BMH β
@echo β 2= Doom2 17= 32= BMP β
@echo β 3= Dark Forces 18= 33= Pizza Connection β
@echo β 4= Duke 3D 19= 34= Epic Pinball β
@echo β 5= Hexen 20= Comanche 35= Pinball Dreams β
@echo β 6= ROTT 21= Descent 36= Pinball Fantasiesβ
@echo β 7= Wolf3D 22= X-Wing 37= Pinball Illusionsβ
@echo β 8= 23= Wing Commander1 38= β
@echo β 9= 24= Wing Commander2 39= β
@echo β 10= Colonization 25= Wing Commander3 40= Stunts β
@echo β 11= Civilization 26= Frontier: Elite 41= β
@echo β 12= Master of Magic 27= Aces of the Pac. 42= β
@echo β 13= Master of Orion 28= Aces over Europe 43= β
@echo β 14= Jagged Alliance 29= SWOTL 44= β
@echo β 15= JA: Deadly Games 30= 45= β
@echo β β
@echo β β
@echo βββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββ
@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