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Small update to the user guide.

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@ -259,9 +259,9 @@ Advanced topics such as the need for the Amiga Kickstart ROMs to run Amiga games
#### DOS / PC
The DOS (and PC) platform uses the DOSBox emulator and the recommended approach here is to keep the directory structure intact, just as if running the game on a real DOS computer. So this means one folder per game in ES. It's also recommended to set the metadata field **Count as game** to off for all files but the actual file used to launch the game (the binary or a .bat batch file). This is done so that the game counter on the system view screen correctly reflects the number of games you have installed. It's also possible to mark files and subdirectories as hidden to avoid seeing them in ES. Both of these fields can be set using the metadata editor.
The DOS (and PC) platform uses the DOSBox emulator and the recommended approach here is to keep the directory structure intact, just as if running the game on a real DOS computer. So this means one folder per game in ES. It's also recommended to set the metadata field **Count as game** to off for all files but the actual file used to launch the game (the binary or a .bat batch file). This is done so that the game counter on the system view screen correctly reflects the number of games you have installed. It's also possible to mark files and subdirectories as hidden to avoid seeing them in ES. Both of these fields can be set using the metadata editor. The metadata field **Sortname** can also be set to sort the files in any preferred order without changing their names. For example, simply putting a '1' as sortname will sort the entry above all entries starting with a character.
Apart from this the game should work as normal. The game folders can be scraped so that it looks nice when browsing the list of games, but make sure to also scrape the files used to launch the games, or otherwise the entries in the collections **Last played**, **Favorites** and **All games** as well as any custom collections will miss the game metadata and media. If you don't have these collections activated, then this can of course be skipped.
Apart from this the game should work as normal. The game folders can be scraped so that it looks nice when browsing the list of games, but make sure to also scrape the files used to launch the games, otherwise the entries in the collections **Last played**, **Favorites** and **All games** as well as any custom collections will miss the game metadata and game media. If you don't have these collections activated, then this can of course be skipped.
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