Dosbox emulates MS-DOS. MS-DOS 6.x and below only allows ASCII filenames (so no åäö). MS-DOS 6.x functionality: * Treat file names stored on the disc as a string and print the string out on the screen without any character set conversions. * Generate an error message if you try to create a file or …

If "-exit" doesn't work, try "-c exit" instead. In that case, the "exit" command will be executed after running AUTOEXEC.BAT, effectively exiting Dosbox. If you are listing several commands with the -c flag, make sure that the "exit" one is the last one you list, since any other ones, appearing …

I see. It works! Thanks!

My laptop keyboard does not have scroll lock or pause/break keys anywhere on the keyboard. Besides, Ubuntu doesn't forward any print screen scancodes to Dosbox. On the other hand, my keyboard has a Windows key (scancode 0xE05B on key down, scancode 0xE0DB on key up) which currently doesn't do …

It's enough to type in the file name once in order to clear it: > copy file Looks dangerous. Now, what does real DOS do here?

I tried running the Windows version of Dosbox under Wine, but I can't reproduce it with a US keyboard layout: \ (scancodes 0x56 and 0xD6) works fine. On the other hand, the / key (scancodes 0x35 and 0xB5) is treated as a duplicate of the - key (scancodes 0xC and 0x8C), so I can't type / or ? with a …

Is the problem that the keyboard layout is wrong and that the backslash key returns a different character? In the original DOS, the computer would always start with a US English keyboard layout and use it until the KEYB command has been used to set a different one. Dosbox mirrors this feature (at …

I get past the error on the image shown. In order to get past a later error, you have to mount the directory containing the installation files as drive A. However, I'm stuck further on: http://i.imgur.com/GVtFq.png Youtube shows that running Windows 1.0 on Dosbox is possible: http://www.youtube.com/ …

I'm using a 1366x768 screen with a 16:9 aspect ratio. Whenever I run Dosbox in fullscreen mode, the DOS 4:3 image is stretched out to fill up my whole screen. I would like Dosbox's fullscreen mode to use a 4:3 aspect ratio, using up the whole screen but leaving 171 columns of pixels black on each …