did you actually bother to try it in dos before posting? Well, since the only DOS version I have at hand is a Windows command-prompt, I must admit I haven't on DOS 6.22 or below. If the disappearing of the prompt is actual original DOS behaviour, I stand corrected, and appologize for making this …

You need to keep in mind the vast majority of us are NOT computer programmers and a simplification of the readme file would be helpful. YOU need to keep in mind that DOSbox is made completely by volunteers, who spend their free time programming so we can play those nice ol' DOS games again. Also, …

Well considering that tandy sound only happened in a tandy machine and that a tandy doesn't have a vga videocard, you should see the problem.... Actually, I don't. There shouldn't be a good reason why DOSbox would link Tandy graphics with the Tandy sound. I suspect they are two seperate things in …

When answering another thread, I discovered that typing "echo off" on the DOSbox commandprompt makes the prompt itself disappear. I'm pretty sure that's not original DOS behaviour. So is this intentional, or some by-effect? JAL

The fact that "ECHO is off" is displayed, is not the source of the failure, nor is it a sign of failure per se. It's printed by DOS(box) when you issue the ECHO command without an "on" or "off" setting from the command prompt or from a batch file. Maybe you could examine the batchfile to see what's …

> can't be done. > Dosbox is an emulator. There is no contact with the rest of your hardware Errr... you could of course *emulate* LPT-access. It wouldn't be of much use for playing games, but "can't be done" is just untrue Qbix 😀. JAL

Couldn't you just use alt-prtscr when running in a window? Doesn't that do the trick? Or am I totally misunderstanding your question? JAL

> The problem with having a pause key in PC games, is that no matter > which key you assign as the "pause dosbox key", there will be a > kazzillion and one games which use that exact key for something. Well, you could of course try something with the Windows-key or that other special Win-only key. …

canadacow: I find it surprising that an "undocumented register" is used. The GUS was especially well known for its thorough SDK, and afaik there were no undocumented registers. However, you could try asking at usenet comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos, some oldtimers may remember. Heck, you could try to ask me, …