This should be in the DOSBox forum. This forum is for emulating old Mac hardware, not emulating other platforms on a newer Mac.

Just in case somebody searches for the thread, the proper name of the character is "tilde".

Anyhow, you should be able to change the keyboard mappings. The default keyboard combo to get to the keymapper is Ctrl-F1, which I assume is available under OSX too.

Moved

Sorry I thought the whole board was dedicated to DOSbox, anyway, good to learn the actual name of the key!

The tilde key should be on all Mac Keyboards I think, shouldn't it. Unlike the hash key "#"

On the Mac, the usual way is to press the Option Key + N, sometimes called Alt+N

While in DOSBox, you have to activate the num key (F6), then to hold down the Option Key (Alt Key) and while holding it down, press 1 2 6 on the numeric key pad to get the tilde sign.

IIGS_User wrote:

While in DOSBox, you have to activate the num key (F6), then to hold down the Option Key (Alt Key) and while holding it down, press 1 2 6 on the numeric key pad to get the tilde sign.

Sounds clumsy. How do you write an ñ then?

That didn't work for me, but I have hotkeys so the F? keys are awkward for me, but I think fiddling with the keymapper is best.

MiniMax wrote:

Sounds clumsy. How do you write an ñ then?

Outside of DOSBox, I type alt+n+n to get ñ.
Within DOSBox, I've to activate the Num key pad like before, and to type alt+1+6+4.

As far as I know, but I'm not a long-time DOS user, this is the usual way to enter special chars in DOS. 😐

I saw the 1-6-4 in the ascii chart here:
http://www.tcp-ip-info.de/tcp_ip_und_internet/ascii.htm