MS-DOS Based Game Lists

[zach-morris]

The following game lists might need to be changed from the default depending on how you use them:

• MS-DOS
• ExoDOS
• Total DOS Collection
• Win 3.X Games

They are compatible with the multiple DOS cores available:
https://docs.libretro.com/library/dosbox/
https://docs.libretro.com/library/dosbox_pure/

ExoDOS and Win 3.X games automatically generate a configuration (conf) file with game launch specifics as part of the post process command, in addition to unarchiving the game files. IAGL then uses this conf file as the launch file. DOSBOX (original/core) launches using this configuration file. DOSBOX Pure, which seems to be the more popular core now, doesn't automatically launch using this file by default.

You can fix this in one of two ways:

1. In DOSBOX-Pure core settings, you can change the default behavior to load a dosbox conf:

2. Alternatively, you can change the default post process for the game list in IAGL. Select the game list of choice, eXoDOS for example, bring up game list context menu Update Game Post Download Process and change it to No Process. If you do this, after the game is downloaded, it will remain archived and IAGL will send the archive file as the launch file to DOSBOX-Pure:

Either method works.