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First post, by Guest

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Right, I just got dosbox yesterday so I'm still figuring it out. I'm running Windows XP and every time I start up dosbox, it works great except for one thing. It starts scrolling through and ringing, like this:

rx add R
rx add I
rx add N
rx add G

rx add
rx add

And repeat about 700 times. This is accompanied by an annoying telephone sound so unless I mute my speakers I get a phone ring in the background of every game I try. Oh, this is only in version 0.61. The rest of the information on my computer I don't know off the top of my head and I'm hoping it isn't necessary since this type of thing usually has an easy fix. There's nothing on this (that I could find) in the readme nor on the forum, although one guest brought it up and was left unanswered. If more information on my computer is needed, let me know. Any help would be great.

Reply 1 of 2, by taiken7

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You probably have something hammering you on TCP port 23.
(usually reserved for Telnet sessions)

Anyhow to fix the "Ring" you can disable virtual modem support;
or change the virtual com-port / TCP interface .
(edit "dosbox.conf" at the end, you should see where to disable it.)

[modem]
# modem -- Enable virtual modem emulation.
# comport -- COM Port modem is connected to.
# listenport -- TCP Port the momdem listens on for incoming connections.

# option 1 .. you never intend to use the modem feature
modem=false
comport=2
# option 2 .. specify a different source port
listenport=1337

[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.