I have recently downloaded and isntalled DosBox-0.63 and when I run it I couldn't mount anything. The problem is that when I try to mount something like C:\games I cannot type a colon ":" when I try to it types ";" regardless of either shift button held down. Is this my hardware or is this ia bug in DosBox?

Thanx

~Mephibosheth

It's not a bug - it's a feature 😀

Read this.

Modem emulation is still broken in 0.63. The last version with working modem is 0.61 :"(

@guest complaining about modem:
Read the following and add any information to that thread:
Reported modem problems
CANADACOW repeatedly confirmed that modem emulation is ok, so I suspect that the problem is on your side.
I have been trying to find out about those supposed modem problems for longer time, but without success... If you have any other experiences, then write to the above mentioned thread ! (you must log to post there)

Mirek

@Minimax:

Hi, could you explain what the benefits of this change are? I assume there are some, since the only user-visible change I noticed regarding this was that support for !US keyboard layouts appeared to be removed, which I too would regard as a bug rather than a feature.

I eventually did manage to assign ":" after struggling somewhat with the keymapper, which I found a bit non-intuitive to use. It would be nice to get more feedback when clicking things. Fx when "Add" us the only button shown, nothing seemingly happens when clicking it.

And how to add stuff with modifiers beats me. Never got it to work.

Anonymous wrote:

@Minimax:
Hi, could you explain what the benefits of this change are?.

Search forum. Keyboard mapper and usage of national keyboards were discussed quite a lot here. After a bit reading you will understand why this is far better solution than before (unless somebody is really lazy)...

Mirek

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@Minimax:

Hi, could you explain what the benefits of this change are? I assume there are some,

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And how to add stuff with modifiers beats me. Never got it to work.

I have not been following the discussions about how to remap the keyboard since I just close my eyes and imagine a VT100 keyboard from the 1980's when I started using computers. At that time, EVERYTHING (terminals, printers, manuals, etc) was US-only, so the US-layout is 'hardcoded' into my fingers, unless I open my eyes, look at my Danish keyboard, and let my brain override the fingers.

One benefit as I see it, is that it is possible to create keymapping files. All we need is for someone to create a Danish, Polish, Greek, Turkish, Spanish, etc mapperfiler, and we can all have a consistent keyboard layout. Also, instead of language specific layouts, you can create (and distribute) layouts suited for specific games. None of this was possible before.

@Minimax:
I see. Sounds reasonable.

Thanks for your quick answer.