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Is it possible to boot a disk image in DOSbox from the host OS terminal, or by double-clicking the disk image? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world to c/dosgaming@retrolemmy.com
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I'd like to just casually boot straight into a game sometimes, or at least a mounted floppy. I don't want to type commands is DOSbox for casual situations like this.

I'm focussing on games that can run straight from the floppy drive. Thanks!

Edit: I tried variations of this command in the macOS terminal:

/Applications/DOSBox\ Staging.app/Contents/MacOS/dosbox -c "imgmount a '/Users/io/Downloads/Prince.img' -t floppy" -c "a:" -c "dir /p"

The idea is that it would open DOSbox in the A: location, run dir /p. I should see prince.exe listed. Unfortunately what actually happens is I'm given a listing of Z: instead. When I try to switch to A:, I'm told that it needs to be mounted first. But I thought my terminal command takes care of that.

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[โ€“] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

On Mac you need to run it with open parameter to add custom arguments

https://www.dosbox.com/wiki/DOSBox_and_Mac_OS_X#Running_DOSBox_with_custom_config

[โ€“] fzz@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago

๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป But better to use dosbox-x same way on arm-macs.

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