Dos Box and YOU! Edit: Post your Dos Box Icons!

[Anthony Davis]

Pretty stupid and simple question actually but where can I get some icons for dos games for my d-fend reloaded?

I made a couple of my own...but let's be honest, I'm not an artist.

 

[Redeye]

Robot Repair, and you

 

[Bluebottle]

Search for box art/screenshot and then crop/shrink them down to icon-ish size?

 

[Jason]

http://www.rpgcodex.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=32121

 

[Hory]

Re: Dos Box and YOU!

icons for dos games

GFX whore!

 

[Micmu]

Real men use command prompt.

cd xcom
sndstart
go

 

[ghostdog]

Any bmp image can be used as an icon. Just search for "game" logo/cover in google and save it as bmp.

 

[Satori (original)]

bmp.

Ew...

 

[Jaesun]

Typically what I do is load up the game, and as soon as the Title screen comes up I then hit CTRL-F5 (to take a screen shot). I then load up the screen shot into Irfanview, resize it to 32 x 32 and then save it as an .ICO file.

For the Ultima's, I found better icons just doing a simple Google Image search. (i.e. Ultima VIII icon).

 

[Anthony Davis]

Thanks for the advice!

What I am doing is setting up my webbook for hot dos box action.

Currently I have:

Wasteland
Dark Sun
Darklands
Fantasy General
Auto Duel
Master of Magic
Mines of Titan (aka Mars Saga)

These are all games I enjoy and own. Anyone have any other recommendations? I have a ton of old games to look through - but I am interested in what the Codex would recommend.

I also have a full copy of Albion, box, manual, and everything else that Chris Avellone gave me, but I can't get it to work with Dos Box at all. Suggestions there would be welcome.

 

[Anthony Davis]

http://www.rpgcodex.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=32121

Wow! I should go to General Gaming more often.

 

[GarfunkeL]

SSI's Gold Box series, along with the Buck Rogers games. There's nearly endless amounts of fun. Which reminds me, back to the Curse of the Azure Bonds!

 

[Anthony Davis]

SSI's Gold Box series, along with the Buck Rogers games. There's nearly endless amounts of fun. Which reminds me, back to the Curse of the Azure Bonds!

Yeah, I own those too. They are in amazing shape, full boxes complete with code wheel. I just don't know if I have the heart to go through them again. I also tend to avoid putting any games on that require journal entries. Wasteland being the exception since I know it like the back of my hand.

 

[Anthony Davis]

Typically what I do is load up the game, and as soon as the Title screen comes up I then hit CTRL-F5 (to take a screen shot). I then load up the screen shot into Irfanview, resize it to 32 x 32 and then save it as an .ICO file.

For the Ultima's, I found better icons just doing a simple Google Image search. (i.e. Ultima VIII icon).

I'm gonna do this. Thanks for the advice!

 

[Jaesun]

Thanks for the advice!
I also have a full copy of Albion, box, manual, and everything else that Chris Avellone gave me, but I can't get it to work with Dos Box at all. Suggestions there would be welcome.

I was just quickly reading http://www.dosbox.com/comp_list.php?sho ... 1&letter=A and it seems tons of people are having problems getting this working.

You might have a quick look on the DOSBox forums. There may be a simple solution posted there.

 

[Anthony Davis]

Hey I got an idea, post your Dos Box icons that you have made or downloaded for your favorite games.

We could make some sort of RPG Codex library of dos box icons.

I'll post mine when I get home tonight after work.

 

[DraQ]

I setup my DOSBox to autorun Norton Commander so I don't need to bother with memorizing paths and filenames while avoiding hassle of listing directories.

It's nice, transparent and user friendly, what more can one need?

 

[Luzur]

I setup my DOSBox to autorun Norton Commander so I don't need to bother with memorizing paths and filenames while avoiding hassle of listing directories.

It's nice, transparent and user friendly, what more can one need?

now why didnt i think of that! dammit i used to be a pro in Norton too.

im getting soft.

 

[Andyman Messiah]

I have put my Vista Game Explorer through some major OCD shit complete with personalized Dosbox configs and original box art for every single game. It's something alright.