DOSBox Launcher

The DOSBox Launcher by Xyem provides a global launcher for all DOSBox based games, automatically setting up unionfs in ~/.gog for user-specific savegame and configuration. Currently it is a rather primitive shell script that takes $1 and $2 variables for defining the GOG to be played and configuration file.

##Usage gog-dosbox-launcher [GAMENAME] [CONFIGURATION FILE]

Both GAMENAME and CONFIGURATION FILE must be defined, there are no default values. GAMENAME must also correspond to the directory name of the game as it appears in /opt/gog, while the CONFIGURATION FILE is the full name of the .conf file in /opt/gog/GAMENAME/dosbox. So if I wanted to play Heroes of Might and Magic I would run gog-dosbox-launcher heroes_of_might_and_magic homm.conf as /opt/gog/heroes_of_might_and_magic is the full path to the HOMM installation directory and /opt/gog/heroes_of_might_and_magic/dosbox/homm.conf is the full path to the configuration file.

##Todo Currently the DOSBox launcher still needs work. Absolute names for $1 and $2 will quickly grow tiring for the user so these need to be replaced with more intelligent command line parameters or perhaps even supplemented by a simple GUI.

None of this is particularly important until well after the main project announcement, however.