First post, by nad53
Greetings fellows. I have had this little issue since I was very kid with the 90s computers and playing DOS games back then, but even nowadays with DOSBox as well.
Just like the title says: I have encountered SOME DOS games that do NOT have a keyboard hotkey to return back to DOS (or DOSBox nowadays). The most common sense would be to have ESC key to return back to DOS, if there's NO game-menu option to do so, but I have had this little issue with them since I was a kid but nowadays as well. Only thing in DOSBox I can think of is just turning off DOSBox and re-open it. Pretty much like if you press Reset or Power-off buttons on your computer case. I just remember pressing reset button back then in late 90s and early 2000s to just stop playing some DOS game, 🤣.
Examples I can remember of right now are Paper Boy 2 and Robocod games.
If there's some modern way to fix this issue with classic DOS games, I would appreciate to know it.
Thanks for your time and for any help you can ever bring.