Dosbox quits immediately

[Maximus5]

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 1785

Required information!
OS version: Win7x64
ConEmu version: 141101/64

I managed to integrate DosBox (by installing in Conemu/Conemu/Dosbox, not the base
Conemu dir as specified in the wiki page), but now every time I run a DOS program the
DosBox window flashes up and then immediately exits, no matter what I do... any ideas?
Thanks!

Reported by krakout on 2014-11-04 08:25:15

[Maximus5]

Without screenshots or video? No.

Reported by ConEmu.Maximus5 on 2014-11-04 10:16:19

[Maximus5]

Well, there's nothing much to show!

Here's a screenshot. That's DosBox' output, as expected, but the main DosBox window
just flashes for an instance (I don't see anything in it but it's really fast) and
then closes. That's all.

Reported by krakout on 2014-11-04 10:21:39

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[Maximus5]

This is ConEmu output but not a dosbox.

Did you manage your dosbox.cfg?

Reported by ConEmu.Maximus5 on 2014-11-04 10:24:26

[Maximus5]

Ah, thanks for the clarification.

Config seems to be fine, I've set the paths which is the only thing that the wiki really
mentions, and my programs run fine if I just run DosBox so I'm really not sure what
else to check... maybe I'm missing something...?

Reported by krakout on 2014-11-04 10:50:00

[Maximus5]

I'm not an oracle. What have you "set" in dosbox.cfg?

ConEmu is not a magic box, it just runs dosbox with your "vgacopy.exe" as an argument.
You can easily check that yourself using ProcessMonitor.

Obviously, if the same command can't be run from Win+R, it will not be working from
ConEmu prompt.

For example, just checked on my PC, the command line is:
"C:\ConEmu\DosBox\DosBox.exe" -noconsole  -conf "C:\ConEmu\DosBox\DosBox.conf"  -c
"C:" -c "cd C:\Games.DOS\Prince" -c "C:\Games.DOS\Prince\PRINCE.EXE" -c "exit" 

Reported by ConEmu.Maximus5 on 2014-11-04 10:55:44

• Labels added: dosbox

[Maximus5]

Well, as I said all I added to the DB config is the paths. Here's my complete conf file:
http://pastebin.com/EHxyDH1V (I commented out the C: at the end)

Ok, so I took a look at the command (thanks for the ProcessMonitor heads-up!), the
command it runs is:

"E:\utils\sys\ConEmu\ConEmu\DosBox\DosBox.exe" -noconsole  -conf "E:\utils\sys\ConEmu\ConEmu\DosBox\DosBox.conf"
 -c "E:" -c "cd E:\utils\sys\ConEmu\ConEmu\DosBox\HDD\vgacopy" -c "E:\utils\sys\ConEmu\ConEmu\DosBox\HDD\vgacopy\vgacopy.exe"
-c "exit

So the issue seems to be twofold:

-it passes a command to change to E: whereas the HDD folder is mounted as C: and
-that it passes, as an argument, the full host machine path to vgacopy (and then exits,
hence the window flashing briefly). But, how to pass the executable by itself?

Maybe I'm missing something regarding paths. The way I run vgacopy.exe (or anything
else) is I CD into the DosBox HDD folder and then run "vgacopy.exe" from there. Is
that wrong?

Reported by krakout on 2014-11-04 11:58:12

[Maximus5]

ConEmu does not do cfg parsing. If you want to use dosbox autostart you need to mount
e:

Reported by ConEmu.Maximus5 on 2014-11-04 12:11:41

[Maximus5]

Hmmmm ok, one down. Thanks!

However, even if I do mount the path as E: instead of C: ConEmu passes as a command
the whole path instead of simply e:\vgacopy\vgacopy.exe, so again it fails. 

How have you managed in your setup to make it simply switch to C:\Games.DOS\Prince?

Reported by krakout on 2014-11-04 15:11:42

[Maximus5]

As I said before ConEmu does not do dosbox.cfg parsing. It does not change host path
too. Your dosbox drives must match host drives if you want to use that feature.

Reported by ConEmu.Maximus5 on 2014-11-04 15:15:06

[Maximus5]

Oh *now* I get it! cool.... thanks so much for your support :)

Reported by krakout on 2014-11-04 15:16:15

[Maximus5]

Reported by ConEmu.Maximus5 on 2014-11-04 15:18:23

• Status changed: Done