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[DOSBox 0.63 under Ubuntu] Where to find dosbox.conf?

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First post, by Fokke

Posted on 2005-12-21, 21:11

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Hey, I've been using DOSBox for a long time on my WinXP machine. Now that my notebook is fully running under Linux Ubuntu (debian based distro) I installed DOSBox on it. Runs like a dream, but I have no clue where to find dosbox.conf... I'm relatively new with Linux, but where can I find or place dosbox.conf? Because I'm getting tired of adjusting the settings everytime I start DOSbox 😉

Thx a lot!

Reply 1 of 3, by twickline

Posted on 2005-12-21, 23:45

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http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php? … ograms%2FConfig

Tom

Reply 2 of 3, by Qbix

Posted on 2005-12-22, 07:14

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cd /tmp
dosbox
(inside dosbox)
config -writeconf dosbox.conf
exit
(outside dosbox)
vi dosbox.conf

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Reply 3 of 3, by dougdahl

Posted on 2005-12-22, 07:31

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The information isn't too bad, but I think it could do with a bit more of information from the README. Specifically,
"If no configfile is specified with the -conf switch, DOSBox will look in the
current directory for dosbox.conf. Then it will look for ~/.dosboxrc (Linux),
~\dosbox.conf (Win32) or "~/Library/Preferences/DOSBox Preferences" (MACOSX)."
Because it seems (at least to me) too easy for someone to presume from reading that page that the "dosbox -conf /path/to/dosbox.conf" is necessary to load the dosbox.conf everytime.
But perhaps I am reading too much into the situation.

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