I have PCBoard running inside dosbox 0.63, on Linux. It initializes the modem fine and sits there waiting for calls. However, when I telnet to it, telnet connection is made but dosbox never talks anything via telnet. It seems completely dead. When PCBoard finally is terminated and it closes the port …

machine=cga fixes the palette problem (i.e. always using CGA default palette, not the others) in Alley Cat. However, this should work on VGA as well (it does on real hardware).

How exactly is printer any different from other hardware access DOSBox has to do? DOSBox can play very loud hf square wave out of your stereo, killing the speakers. It can also stuff your HDD with garbage (useless files). Additionally, it apparently can create files with names that are forbidden on …

Very interesting :) I didn't test it yet, but I'd certainly have use for ASCII/CP437 text printing... The PRN and LPT1 problems look like the dos implementation of DOSBOX didn't recognize those and forward the printing works to actual printers. Instead, it calls the host OS to create a file with …