DOSBOX-X portability in Linux possible?

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Dave3000

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I own several DOS games that I want to install on an external SSD for portability but want to use Linux Mint as the OS. I use DOSBOX-X specifically. I can do this with Windows through portable Playnite as the frontend and don't even need a frontend and just can search through the games folders for the batch file I created to launch the game calling up the specific DOSBOX-X configuration files for each game. I would like to do the same in Linux Mint and I don't need specifically a front-end, just access to the script game launching files that call DOSBOX-X and the DOSBOX-X configuration files I create for the games. Am I stuck with Windows if I want portability for DOSBOX or can this be done in Linux as well?

 

crashtech

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There's Flatpak support for DOSBox-X, but I don't know if that is what you're looking for. I wonder if you couldn't just make your external SSD into a DOS boot disk and boot into it when you want to play?

 

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Dave3000

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crashtech said:

There's Flatpak support for DOSBox-X, but I don't know if that is what you're looking for. I wonder if you couldn't just make your external SSD into a DOS boot disk and boot into it when you want to play?

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That's the one I use. Even if I could have a portable bootable DOSBOX external SSD, I wouldn't be able to run the script files for each game, so I would have to rely on a single DOSBOX configuration file for all my DOS games on the external SSD. I wouldn't be able to click the script file I created to launch the game and instead would be typing commands to launch the game doing it this way. The best I could do for specific configurations on the command line is just specifiy the cycles as in config -set cycles = <number of cycles> but then I would have to type that out at the commmand prompt as I wouldn't have a script file to click on inside the DOS command prompt that would call up that specific configuration.

 

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Dave3000

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I could just have a some kind of portable installation of Linux installed on an external SSD with DOSBOX-X installed but it wouldn't be specific to DOSBOX-X even though I could just use it for DOSBOX-X.