Usage
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Command Line Parameters
dosbox [name] [-exit] [-c command] [-fullscreen] [-userconf] [-conf congfigfilelocation] [-lang languagefilelocation] [-machine machine type] [-noconsole] [-startmapper] [-noautoexec] [-securemode] [-scaler scaler | -forcescaler scaler] [-version] [-socket socket] [-editconf program] [-opencaptures program] [-printconf] [-eraseconf] [-erasemapper]
Usage
name
- If
name
is a directory, DOSBox will mount the specified directory as the C drive.
Ifname
is an executable, DOSBox will mount the directory ofname
as the C drive, and start executingname
.
-exit
- DOSBox will close itself when the DOS application "name" ends.
-c command
- Runs the specified command before running
name
. Multiple commands can be specified. Each command should start with-c
though. A command can be: an Internal Program, a DOS command or an executable on a mounted drive.
-fullscreen
- Starts DOSBox in fullscreen mode.
-userconf
- Start DOSBox with the options specified in "configfilelocation". Multiple -conf options may be present.
-conf configfilelocation
- Start DOSBox with the options specified in
configfilelocation
. Multiple -conf options may be present.
-lang languagefilelocation
- Start DOSBox using the language string specified in
languagefilelocation
.
-machine machinetype
- Setup DOSBox to emulate a specific type of machine. Valid choices are: hercules, cga, ega, pcjr, tandy, svga_s3 (default) as well as the additional svga chipsets listed in the DOSBox configuration file. The machinetype affects the video card and the available sound cards.
-noconsole
(Windows Only)- Start DOSBox without showing the console window, output will be redirected to
stdout.txt
andstderr.txt
. This is useful if DOSBox crashes, since the error messages stored instdout.txt
andstderr.txt
may help the developers fixing the problem.
-startmapper
- Enter the mapper directly on startup. Useful for people with keyboard or joystick problems.
-noautoexec
- Skips the [autoexec] section of the loaded configuration file.
-securemode
- Same as -noautoexec, but adds config.com
-securemode
at the bottom of AUTOEXEC.BAT (which in turn disables any changes to how the drives are mounted inside DOSBox).
Notes
- If a
name/ command/ configfilelocation/ languagefilelocation
contains a space in it, put the wholename/ command/ configfilelocation/ languagefilelocation
between quotes ("example"). - In Windows you can also drag directories/files onto the DOSBox executable.
Example
dosbox c:\atlantis\atlantis.exe -c "MOUNT D C:\SAVES"
This would mount c:\atlantis
as c:\
and run atlantis.exe
. Before it does that, it would first mount C:\SAVES
as the D drive.