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Re: Frontend for Apps?

Posted on 2013-07-04, 23:28

Dominus, it's very kind of you to offer that help, however it seems that my Dell laptop is again acting-up. The screen goes black upon, or several seconds after, bootup (and remains black)! :( This problem is the reason I decided it was time to give up on that laptop PC and go to a Macbook. The …

Re: Frontend for Apps?

Posted on 2013-07-04, 15:21

....what you aim to do is easily done by editing the preference file (see readme on where it is onOS X) and adding the needed commands once to its autoexec section. So whenever you start dosbox you immediately run your program. Hi Dominus, I am intrigued by your statement (quoted above) as that's …

Re: Frontend for Apps?

Posted on 2013-07-04, 15:14

....assuming DOSBox can run Q&A properly (please note that DOSBox is NOT designed to run your applications, you are most likely better of using Bochs or another emulator), the existing front-ends for OSX (Boxer, DBGL) ought to be able to get your application working, consequently. Thanks for the …

Frontend for Apps?

Posted on 2013-07-03, 00:30

Hopefully, this is the correct forum to ask this question. If not, please re-direct me to the appropriate forum. Over 30 years ago my dad wrote a family-tree database app (using a DOS program called Q&A). I first got into computers with a Windows Vista PC, so my dad installed DOSBox on my PC and …

Re: Confused about some DOSBOX groundrules

Posted on 2008-06-05, 19:45

Dominus wrote: without, exactly as if you'd entered them on the prompt: mount C C:\QA C: QA […] Show full quote without, exactly as if you'd entered them on the prompt: mount C C:\QA C: QA Works great!!! ....just one more request: When I exit QA, it returns me to the C-prompt (C:\>). Is there any …

Re: Confused about some DOSBOX groundrules

Posted on 2008-06-05, 19:09

You guys have been great; now the only thing I want to do is to automate the entire mounting process, so that I don't have to enter: Z:\> mount C C:\QA Z:\> C: C:\> QA In other words, I want my QA program to open when I click on the DOSBox icon on my desktop . Can you please show me how to do this …

Re: Confused about some DOSBOX groundrules

Posted on 2008-06-05, 18:59

i'm pretty sure that one of the problems is that the program expects to find its files in c:/qa but when you mount it the files are in c:. so just for testing make a directory c:/qa/qa and copy the files from c:/ qa to that and run dosbox again and use the same mountings except cd to qa and then …

Re: Confused about some DOSBOX groundrules

Posted on 2008-06-05, 18:54

The command C:\> QA is not to change to the QA directory (I realize I'm already there), but to run the COM file QA.COM in order to launch the app. ...oops, sorry. So you have one QA dir with a qa.com within ? Here are my sdl config settings: fullscreen=true fulldouble=true fullresolution=original …

Re: Confused about some DOSBOX groundrules

Posted on 2008-06-05, 16:46

After you mount c c:\qa you see once in c: you already are in QA dir, you don't have to change dir anymore (aside from the fact the good syntax ought to be cd QA anyway, not just QA , shouldn't it ?) But the main reason I intervene here is to say : I also have a Vista machine and I'm rather happy …

Re: Confused about some DOSBOX groundrules

Posted on 2008-06-05, 15:59

You could also tell us your exact mountings and where the directory is located on your drive. My one (and only) DOS app is Q&A. QA.COM is located in C:\QA. Q&A's database directory is C:\QA\DB. Inside the DB directory are the database files. Please see actual mounting in the following post ... …

Re: Confused about some DOSBOX groundrules

Posted on 2008-06-05, 15:34

Change output=xxxx to ddraw or overlay. I tried that (and every other output value), but I can't get a full screen even though I set full screen and full screen buffer to 'true'. Make sure you have all required permissions. It's not a permissions problem (at least not with Vista) because I can run …

Re: Confused about some DOSBOX groundrules

Posted on 2008-06-05, 03:01

I'm sorry to report that DOSBox doesn't seem to work well in Vista. As much as I've tried, I can't get full screen to work. Even worse, after launching my app it isn't able to find my database subdirectory! My son has WinXP on his PC, so I recreated the very same DOSBox environment with my database …

Confused about some DOSBOX groundrules

Posted on 2008-06-04, 22:29

Hi all, I'm new to DOSBOX and to this forum, so please understand when I ask a few basic questions: First, let me explain that I want to use DOSBOX to run a DOS database app (Q&A). My PC runs Vista, so my hard drive is NTFS. Question 1: If I put my Q&A program and my associated database on my NTFS …

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