DosBox Config Manager

[Whirlinurd]

Hi.

Having several hundreds dos games of variable quality I still want to add lots of games to Retropie. I have picked a few fun games and created a config file that goes with it. The only things that the config file holds is a changedir command to the right directory and the executable that starts the game. Adding about two dozens of games I started wondering. How difficult could it be to create an assistance tool to create those config files a bit quicker.

Since most of the config files for DOSBox are very similar I was thinking of a tool that:

• Set location where the games are stored for scanning.
• Location is also used to mount drive c to this location.
• Scans the directory names for the config files per game.
• Scans the same directory structure but then in 8.1 format for changedir command.
• Set default location of the where the config file should be stored.
• Use the directory names for naming the game config files.
• Scans per directory which executable are present. Like Exe, Com, Bat, etc.

Some additional ideas for batch creating.

• Skip executables like INSTALL.EXE or SETUP.EXE.
• Dumps a config file in the pc rom directory for every game.

Additional tweaks per game for advanced users.

• Maybe tweaks per game. Not sure what is configurable in a game.conf file.
• Location of a bin or iso if a game is cd based to mount a extra drive letter.

Maybe some one can help me in the right direction. How to create something like this. Maybe some one with the knowledge can make this in 5 minutes. I have no idea.

Thanks.