VOGONS


Sound and video output

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First post, by PooshhMao

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Hi Dosbox devver type peoples 😘

Dunno if this would fit easily within the DOSBox framework (or break multiplatform compatibility), but I feel a welcome feature would be to provide the possibility to choose the video and audio output device (when you have multiple monitors or sound card outputs)

Mame (for example) supports choosing what monitor to output to (great for when you have a TV (or projector in my case 😊) hooked up as the second monitor... play DOS games full screen on my wall while my main desktop is free to use... that would.. omg 🙄

Same thing goes for the directsound device (does dosbox support directsound? Must check the docs), instead of just using the default device, make it possible to select the one you prefer to use..

Discuss!

Reply 2 of 6, by PooshhMao

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Interesting, I'll have to mess around with this.
Extensively.

Thanks for the tip.

Reply 3 of 6, by PooshhMao

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Um.. something that is not immediately obvious when I read the available documentation; just how (or where) exactly do you change these vars?

Reply 4 of 6, by wd

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depends on your OS

Reply 5 of 6, by PooshhMao

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Windows XP.
(Plenty of other things to fix/comprehend on my Kubuntu machine before I attempt running dosbox on that)

Reply 6 of 6, by wd

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If you're running it from a batch file, i think the "SET xyz=abc" should
be working, if not see Control Panel - System where one of the tabs
has a button Environment Variables or so.