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First post, by joebro

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I have read the manual and Wiki but is does not go into great detail about setting up a directory for captures. The Wiki says that a capture path is created automatically with the newer versions of DOSBox. Anyway, I hit Crtl+F5 during a game (Quest for Glory I - EGA) and nothing seems to happen. I check the capture folder and nothing is in it except the text file describing the capture key commands. What am I doing wrong? Maybe someone could explain how they have successfully obtained captures while playing a game and what (if anything) they have edited in the config file.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

Reply 1 of 6, by robertmo

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what is your dosbox version and where have you got it from?
what is your Operating System?
what are your PC specifications?
post content of "DOSBox Status Window" (in Windows: right click on its title bar -> edit)
enclose your dosbox's config file

Reply 4 of 6, by joebro

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DOSBox version: is 0.74; downloaded from DOSBox.com; the executable is located at C:\Program Files\DOSBox\DOSBox.exe

Operating System: MS Windows Vista Home Premium, 32-bit

PC Specs: Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.00GHz; 2.00 GB RAM; GeForce 8400M GT w/ 256MB video mem

"DOSBox Status Window":

DOSBox version 0.74
Copyright 2002-2010 DOSBox Team, published under GNU GPL.
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CONFIG:Loading primary settings from config file C:\Users\User1\AppData\Local\DO
SBox\dosbox-0.74.conf
MIDI:Opened device:win32

DOSBox config files:
Global config file (dosbox-0.74.conf) - attached
Quest for Glory I - EGA config (dosbox.conf) - attached

Path of "capture" folder:
C:\Users\User1\AppData\Local\DOSBox\capture

Thanks for the help.

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    dosbox.conf
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    Fair use/fair dealing exception
  • Filename
    dosbox-0.74.conf
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    Fair use/fair dealing exception

Reply 6 of 6, by joebro

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Thanks, that fixed it. I hit Ctrl+F5 now and a PNG file is saved in the capture folder. I used a DOSBox installer to setup my QFG Anthology games and the config file it automatically produced had the quotation marks around the path name.

Anyway, good to go. Thanks.

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