I don't understand a word about what you said. Do you mean that you are using the SUSPEND (to RAM - to Disk) function and DOSBox doesn't come up when returning from it? What do you mean by "locking" your computer?

Elaborate, please.

press ctrl + alt+ del and thou shall be enlightened.

Lock Computer. it wont suspend. windows 2000 and xp atleast have this ability.

and yes when i unlock there is no visible evidence that dosbox has been open.

up

might have been fixed in the cvs.
at least if you were talking about fullscreen related stuff

"i have windows 2000 and the only reason i use dosbox is that i can play in a window which i can multitask away when someone comes near me :> fullscreen is too visible"

nope i use it in a window :>

im a scared to even begin playing adventure games like space quest if the game closes everytime im too long away from my computer or i have to go somewhere and have to lock it up.

or if someone know how do i get windows dos-prompt to stay in a window when i start the game? the game forces the window to go in full screen and if i alt+enter it just says FROZEN and will freeze :>

interesting.

unfortunately my computer here is stand alone with a single user, so CTRL+ALT+DEL does not present me with the Lock Computer option, instead it brings me straight to Task Manager so I'm unable to test this out for myself. (Windows XP Pro SP2)

When you open DOSBox and type Intro you'll notice at the bottom in green it says, "DOSBox will stop/exit without warning if an error occured!" ... sounds related, no?

I would be interested to know a few things:

1) when you unlock your computer, even though DOSBox disappears is it still taking up memory as an active process?

2) what happens if you minimize first, then lock? .. how about full screen, then lock? and last, have you tried different screen resolutions? Perhaps a problem with redrawing the application when unlocked?

3) have you tried locking your computer without an application open in DOSBox?

If there are still problems I'd try enabling compatability options just to see what happens...

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dosbox shuts down even if i only press ctrlaltdel and windows shows me the windows security window dont even need to lockup..

it seems that dbserv.exe stays open.. or it might be only this time cause i selected it from the windows task manager processes list and then pressed ctrl+alt+del

no matter if its minimized or fullscreen (fullscreen fucked up my resolutions too.. left it to 320 or something :>) and same thing if you have a game on or you dont.

i think it might be some sort of.. dataflow..continual..thingie.. when i press the windows security window open it over runs everything else and when dosbox stops getting cpu cycles it just dies. so the question is how do i ensure the dataflow from windows to dosbox? :>

i think i tested too much.. now it wont even start.. good thing i just got off work..

i think it might be some sort of.. dataflow..continual..thingie..

You really have no clue about how Windows works so please keep the conjecture at home 😀 The security dialog merely runs on a different desktop to that of the standard desktop. If you really want to learn the details, look up GINA in Google... Something I had to implement for an NT4 application many years back. Had many a blue screen boot with that 🙁 😀

I've just tried locking my session whilst DOSBox is running. When DOSBox is running windowed I have no problem. When running DOSBox fullscreem (fixed at 1280x1024 with opengl output) the DOSBox window is badly redawn somewhat between being displayed and not (sorta hard to explain as you can imagine!). This is with the 0.63 release of DOSBox with a default config bar the settings mentioned.

I've noticed the behavior he's experiencing. Since I juse many different CVS builds (some with different SDL vers) and don't experience the behaviour that much I never really notice it. For those experiencing the issue try different SDL versions, I'll see if I can find the different SDL's I have and see if I can recreate it problem.

i have some idea how windows works just not all of it.. 2000 is crap :>

anyhow 0.62 works like a dream. so case closed :F