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Mac OSX DOSBox Function Keys

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First post, by Guest

Posted on 2004-06-28, 04:57

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I am using an older PowerBookG4 and have tried the two different launchers and just the Darwin shell for launching DOSBox and it works GREAT!

However, I am unable to use the function keys to 'increase cycles' or 'decrease frames'. This prevents me from speeding up the emulation to play some of the games I want to play faster.

Funny thing is, the keys just don't affect period. By default, the emulator starts at 2500 cycles with 0 frameskip. CTRL-F12 does NOT increase the cycles, but CTRL-F11 does decrease them. Once I decrease them, I cannot even increase them back to 2500! All of my keys on my keyboard work! 😊

So instead I have been using frameskip to increase performance (would rather not). However, if I raise it too high for my liking, and want to lower it, the CTRL-F7 key does not lower it!

So, because I can only increase frameskip or lower cycles, there is no way to improve the default settings DOSBox starts with, anyone else have this issue?

Reply 1 of 10, by Guest

Posted on 2004-07-01, 03:00

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Still looking for help here....

Reply 2 of 10, by Qbix

Posted on 2004-07-01, 07:10

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never heard of it.

Does your OS/window manager maybe steal the f12 key ?

You can always specify the amounf cpu cycles in the configfile.

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Reply 3 of 10, by Guest

Posted on 2004-07-02, 04:54

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After doing some testing, there is no 'key stealing' by other background apps or the system itself.

The DOSBox application comes in a 'package' for the Mac, and there is no specific config file. I will look more into the app itself to see if I can find some configuration stuff, but there are no files included except a few *.icns files.

Reply 4 of 10, by mirekluza

Posted on 2004-07-02, 05:29

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You can generate the configuration file DOSBOX.CONF from DOSBOX. See README.

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Reply 5 of 10, by iroll

Posted on 2004-08-29, 07:32

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Command-Ctrl-Function-F12 works for me on my G4 iBook. Function is a laptop key, so if you're using a desktop, ignore that (found this tip in another thread).

Reply 6 of 10, by Game_Hunter

Posted on 2005-07-10, 04:38

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Mac laptops steal the function keys and map them to hardware keys by default. This means F5 is volume up, F6 is num lock and so on. You need to go into the system preferences and under keyboard click the button to turn the function keys to software control and then also to go into the keyboard shortcuts and turn off keyboard navigation. Then it should all work OK.

Reply 7 of 10, by Guest

Posted on 2005-07-10, 22:25

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Hi,

I'm a reasonably veteran dosbox user, having played the odd good game of Civ with it on my laptop under OS X 10.3

But now I have Panther, I find the function keys - essential to controling dosbox's emulation - hijacked by Dashboard for its purposes, and I can't control the emu anymore!

I propose a solution: being able to assign whatever key-combos you want for frameskip +/- and cpu cycles +/-. If this is already possible, someone tell me! If not, then I beseech thee! 😉

Also, it'd be really nice if config options were in a nice OS X style preference pane, brought up by command sem-colon. But I know this is a cross platform project, and config files may be the best way to go ... you get my hint! 😅

Reply 8 of 10, by Guest

Posted on 2005-07-10, 22:27

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Whoops - I mean "but now I have Tiger".

I've used dosbox just fine for about a year, and know the laptop semantics of function key etc. Dashboard really does take the key!

Reply 9 of 10, by Guest

Posted on 2005-07-10, 22:32

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However, in Tiger, those function keys - f12 most notably - really are taken, and I find dosbox impossible to configure. (Been using it on Panther for about a year on a Powerbook, so not a newb problem!)

Reply 10 of 10, by eL_PuSHeR

Posted on 2005-07-11, 08:05

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