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First post, by exofreeze

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I'm putting together a group of batch files which launch dos games via dosbox.

After a few hundred of these things I've got it down to a science for the most part, although Aladdin is giving me hell.

If I load up dosbox manually, navigate to the directory and launch the game, it starts up fine.

If I run it via command prompt:
"..\Program Files\DOSBox-0.70\dosbox.exe" ".\play\Aladdin (1994)(Virgin-Disney)\aladdin.exe" -conf ".\conf\dosbox.conf" -noconsole -exit -fullscreen

Then dosbox starts up, then immediately drops out. It doesn't sit at a command prompt like it does when the path is wrong.

I'm also confident in the command line itself as it runs perfectly in all the batch files I've written so far.

Is there any reason a game would run fine when manually launched, but no when called by command line?

Reply 2 of 2, by exofreeze

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it was giving a gibberish error...

I just figured it out however...

For some reason the conf file was causing the problem. Even though it works for 99 percent of the other games.... it didn't like this one. It finally occurred to me later that when running dosbox manually it was using a different conf the the one I was defining.

Thanks for the help though.