Regarding output modes: Surface doesn't allow scaling, overlay crashes when the screen is locked, opengl blanks out entirely, openglnb gives very low resolution. That leaves ddraw, which causes the refresh problem I'm having. Killing explorer is not an option, as I need to be able to switch back and …

A very annoying problem that I (and others) have noticed is that when a window from a different application becomes active during a Dosbox session, the Dosbox window will often have its graphics frozen in place, or be totally blank, when it is returned to the foreground. The display is returned to …

Quote: but it's a pain to work from a directory structure that's different from the physical one. Why? I'm using a word processing program, and have saved files in various folders over the years. Now I can only open files that have been moved to the virtual drive. Not terrible, but definitely …

The best thing to do is creating a new directory (like c:\oldstuff or, if for some reason you want to use your network drive, h:\whatever), mounting that as your c-drive in dosbox. To install games/applications do the same with an installation directory (like copy everything into c:\oldstuff\ …

Hi all, I was looking for a way to work within a directory that matches the physical root of my hard drive (the app I am using is a word processor, and it needs access to a variety of files throughout my file system). It occurred to me that perhaps I could map the root to a network drive letter …