First post, by Yushatak
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DOSBox should be capable of going fullscreen on any monitor instead of only the primary one.
Example scenario: You have dual LCDs, one 4:3 and one 16:9. You want to play a DOS game fullscreen and want it on the 4:3 monitor, but it's your secondary. You can swap primaries, run it, and then swap back, but this is tedious. At that point you may as well be swapping cables and having one monitor.
My scenario: I prefer CRTs for DOS gaming - they scale low resolutions beautifully in such a way that LCDs simply can't seem to replicate. I am easily able to stick a CRT on my computer as my second monitor, but I would really only be using it for DOSBox. It would be nice if I could set Monitor=1 in my DOSBox config and have DOSBox always open on monitor 2 in fullscreen mode that way.
I realize that this is also a question of SDL, but I'm not aware what restrictions SDL places on you in this regard, so forgive me if this isn't within the realm of possibility without SDL being modified or updated first.
Another thing that would make my life easier: I'd like to have the capability (as one does with a VM) to assign a device to DOSBox and DOSBox alone. I.e., I hook up a PS/2 keyboard and mouse, and a USB keyboard and mouse. I use the USB pair on Windows and set up DOSBox to only respond to the PS/2 set and to take over from Windows receiving on it to boot. This way one can operate DOSBox like another - separate - workstation.
