Simple Batch Program Launcher for DOSBox

I decided that it would be easier for me to launch games within DOSBox if I had a little launch menu that appeared when starting DOSBox. So I brushed off some very old DOS BAT file programming skills, consulted a couple of websites, and came up with this simple launcher. It just displays a menu of options and then launches those programs. It is named menu.bat and is in my ~/DOSGAMES folder.

@echo off rem Batch menu by B. Bellina, 2/2012 :top rem dir :menu echo. echo Alt-Return to toggle between full screen and windowed mode echo. echo Launch Applications: echo 1 = Dungeon Master 2 echo 2 = Dungeon Master 2 (optional Torham) echo 3 = Eye of the Beholder echo 4 = Eye of the Beholder 2 echo. echo Other options: echo 5 = Exit to DOS echo 6 = Quit DOSBox echo. echo To bring this menu back type MENU at the C:\ DOS prompt echo. rem All allowed options must be listed in the line below choice /n /c:123456 Make a selection: echo. rem The errorlevel lines must be in reverse order if errorlevel ==6 goto six if errorlevel ==5 goto five if errorlevel ==4 goto four if errorlevel ==3 goto three if errorlevel ==2 goto two if errorlevel ==1 goto one goto end :one echo Launching Dungeon Master 2 cd DUNGEO~1 DM2 rem Unfortunately Dungeon Master 2 will not give control back to this bat file rem cd \ rem goto menu :two echo Launching Dungeon Master 2 (optional Torham) cd DUNGEO~2 DM2 rem Unfortunately Dungeon Master 2 will not give control back to this bat file rem cd \ rem goto menu :three echo Launching Eye of the Beholder… cd EYEOFT~1 start.exe cls cd \ goto menu :four echo Launching Eye of the Beholder 2… cd EYEOFT~2 start.exe cls cd \ goto menu :five cd \ goto end :six exit :end

To make DOSBox automatically mount the location of my games folder and run menu.bat I edited the DOSBox preferences file in ~/Library/Preferences/ adding the following lines to the end of the autoexec section:

# Mount the DOSGAMES folder in the home directory MOUNT C ~/DOSGAMES C: menu.bat

Screen displayed when launching DOSBox and using my menu.bat