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First post, by supercomputer

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when i start a game and click inside the window(or full screen) the colors everywhere becomes weird. how can I solve this?

i dont know what version i use, i think its 0,72
thanks

Reply 1 of 9, by HunterZ

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Try different ouput= settings in dosbox.conf

Reply 2 of 9, by supercomputer

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I dont understand. 🙁

what should I do?

Reply 3 of 9, by MiniMax

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You should read the excellent(?) README file that comes with DOSBox, and then you should create and study a dosbox.conf file.

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Reply 4 of 9, by supercomputer

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okay i think i read the correct readme. not from my dosbox but from your link(think its called link).

I still dont know what to do. can you give me details please.
how do i create or find a conf file?

Last edited by supercomputer on 2009-07-15, 22:22. Edited 1 time in total.

Reply 5 of 9, by eL_PuSHeR

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For starters, get the newest version 0.73

I don't know about Linux but you have to edit DOSBox configuration. It is stored in a plain text file called dosbox.conf.

Once inside this file, edit the line output= and change it to something useable under Linux, like OpenGL -> output=OpenGL

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Reply 6 of 9, by MiniMax

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supercomputer wrote:

okay i think i read the correct readme. not from my dosbox but from your link(think its called link).

I still dont know what to do. can you give me details please.
how do i create or find a conf file?

Line 1209 of said README. You missed that while reading?

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Reply 7 of 9, by supercomputer

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I read it many times now, but i dont understand. the computer says no such file or directory when trying the suggestions from the readme.

Reply 8 of 9, by MiniMax

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Open a terminal window and type

dosbox -printconf

It will show you the default location of the config file (that's from line 388 of the README). Hopefully, that will be ~/.dosbox.

Next, start DOSBox, and type

config -writeconf ~/.dosbox

That will create the config file named .dosbox in your home directory (that is from line 563 and 1228 of the README).

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Reply 9 of 9, by supercomputer

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it didnt work but thank you for the help so far. I continue this tomorrow.