Desktop Icons for Classic Adven Games? Best DOSBox Frontend?
Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 10:33 am
I was recently reading an old reply on here by MusicallyInspired where he was explaining to someone how to create shortcuts to launch old DOS games so that the games will start and run in DOSBox just by clicking on the shortcuts. I created shortcuts this way (works great and is so much better than typing "mount" all the time), but now I would like to select special icons for the shortcuts.
Does anyone know of any collections of classic adventure game-related desktop icons out there which might be available for download? It would be neat to have a little custom bloody dagger (with the letters CB on it) icon for Colonel's Bequest, for example. I thought maybe some Sierra or LucasArts fan at some point, somewhere out there might have already designed little graphics to be used as icons for many of the old games.
Also, how do most of you launch your old DOS games in DOSBox? Do you have special ways of organizing the game lists? Do you use a DOSBox frontend? Which frontend do you like best? I tried using D-Fend ReLoaded, and couldn't get it to load the games properly. However, I only spent about 30 seconds trying to get it to work... and I should give it another try. What's the advantage of using a frontend program to launch games as opposed to just creating shortcuts? Special configurations saved for each game?
EDIT: I just found this -- see below. It's a picture Spikey posted of his desktop awhile back. Taking a look at his icons, which look great, it seems like it wouldn't be too hard to just create little icons using game screenshots, cover art, etc. We just have to convert the image to bitmap and keep it under a certain size, right? Geez, his desktop is so much better organized than mine!!
Does anyone know of any collections of classic adventure game-related desktop icons out there which might be available for download? It would be neat to have a little custom bloody dagger (with the letters CB on it) icon for Colonel's Bequest, for example. I thought maybe some Sierra or LucasArts fan at some point, somewhere out there might have already designed little graphics to be used as icons for many of the old games.
Also, how do most of you launch your old DOS games in DOSBox? Do you have special ways of organizing the game lists? Do you use a DOSBox frontend? Which frontend do you like best? I tried using D-Fend ReLoaded, and couldn't get it to load the games properly. However, I only spent about 30 seconds trying to get it to work... and I should give it another try. What's the advantage of using a frontend program to launch games as opposed to just creating shortcuts? Special configurations saved for each game?
EDIT: I just found this -- see below. It's a picture Spikey posted of his desktop awhile back. Taking a look at his icons, which look great, it seems like it wouldn't be too hard to just create little icons using game screenshots, cover art, etc. We just have to convert the image to bitmap and keep it under a certain size, right? Geez, his desktop is so much better organized than mine!!