Every time I get a new game of any complexity, I usually create a menu for it using the freeware standalone launcher PStart. For me, it’s part of the fun of getting a new game, and it also consolidates a bunch of game resources in a single executable more attractively than the Start menu. Here’s my menu for the newly re-released Master of Orion from GOG:
As you can see, the GOG package includes both Master of Orion I and II, manuals, and the open source DOSBox emulator pre-configured to properly run both games. It’s a fairly complex setup that GOG has taken some decent steps to simplify for the average player. Putting all these resources into a single menu makes it (for me), even simpler. For example, I’ve been playing around with the various DOSBox settings to get the game to run the way I like, so it’s useful to me to have access to the dosboxMOO2.conf file you see in the above menu.
So, just quickly, here is how you put together such a menu system, for just about any game, for free.
drfrog 