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CR/LF effect lost on import to Linux from Windows

Posted on 2008-05-15, 22:28

I posted on this on the application-specific forum and didn't get a response, so I thought I'd try here. I run an old DOS application -- a text procesor/outliner -- in DOSbox on Xubuntu and in a DOS window on Windows XP. In both installations the application is set to use CR/LF as the newline …

Re: Resizing DOSbox window

Posted on 2008-05-15, 22:13

DosFreak wrote: openglnb. That gives the same result as "opengl." In addition to being fuzzier than with "surface," they're also slower in rendering characters. Appreciate the suggestion, though. Sincerely,

Resizing DOSbox window

Posted on 2008-05-15, 16:42

Per a suggestion here several months back I tried resizing the DOSbox window by making the following changes in the [sdl] section of dosbox.conf: windowresolution=original to windowresolution=1200x900 output=surface to output=opengl By experimentation I was able to get the size window I wanted but …

Re: Changing screen color, and other questions

Posted on 2008-02-23, 19:23

Next you create a single text file using TextEdit. Call it something like MyConf.txt and let it have just the following 2 lines: [cpu] cycles=1234 Start DOSBox and look at the window title. Does it say "DOSBox 0.72, Cpu Cycles: 3000, Frameskip ..." ? Or does it say "Cycles: 1234" ? I finally …

Re: Changing screen color, and other questions

Posted on 2008-02-12, 15:35

Eric: The current working directory of DOSBox depends on how it was started. If it was via an icon on your desktop, it's properties should allow you to set that. In any case, there is no "right" or "wrong" working directory, it should simply be where you want it to be. Thanks, Moe. I'm taking it …

Re: Changing screen color, and other questions

Posted on 2008-02-10, 17:35

I missed your post earlier. Picked up on it from MiniMax's reference to it. My apologies. On unixoid systems, the default dosbox.conf is ~/.dosboxrc Do you mean that by default dosbox.conf is IN ~/.dosboxrc? I don't have ~/.dosboxrc on my system. Should I create it? On all systems, dosbox loads …

Re: Changing screen color, and other questions

Posted on 2008-02-10, 17:25

But maybe the problem is that Mac OSX (which you use?) is not as "unixoid" as Moe put it, and that it looks in the file "DOSBox Preferences" in ~/Library/Preferences instead. Actually, I'm Linux/Kubuntu. You may have gottern the impression otherwise from the fact that in an earlier post I was …

Re: Changing screen color, and other questions

Posted on 2008-02-04, 23:39

If you did as IIGS_User suggested earlier (config -writeconf ~/dosbox.conf), then the dosbox.conf file you see is the one you created. If you rename it to .doxboxrc you should be set. Actually what I did was "config -writeconf dosbox.conf." When I tried what you suggested, I got a "Can't open file …

Re: Changing screen color, and other questions

Posted on 2008-02-04, 22:33

Here is a hack to figure that out... In DOSBox do a mount X . dir X: /w I tried it. The list looked like it was in five columns, [.], [..], [kde], [qt], and [w3m]. There's a copy of the "dosbox.conf" file in the second column [[..]] -- or maybe they aren't columns. Could be just a single list, but …

Re: Changing screen color, and other questions

Posted on 2008-02-04, 22:25

Hmmm - that is not supposed to happen. It happened with several of the links I checked out -- I think it was on the old wiki. Depending on which operating system you have, DOSBox will first look for a personalized configuration file in the following places: Operating system Name Windows %HOME%\ …

Re: Changing screen color, and other questions

Posted on 2008-02-04, 17:08

I think, you've to enter the full path to the file, like config -writeconf "Volumes/Macintosh HD/.../dosbox.conf" Btw: Folder structure must exist or the file will not be written... Thanks. That was my assumption. I'm wondering, though, if the folder wasn't created during installation, if BOSbox …

Re: Changing screen color, and other questions

Posted on 2008-02-04, 15:57

http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/oldwiki/index.php?page=dosbox.conf I take it this was intended for me. It offered to download a "php" file which shows up empty in my editors. However, when I checked your "60 second guide" I found instructions for creating and editing a "dosbox.conf" file in Mac OS X. …

Re: Changing screen color, and other questions

Posted on 2008-02-03, 22:29

This works for me: [sdl] windowresolution=1200x900 output=opengl Thanks. This raises another question. I've been unable to find the dosbox.conf file. There's a dosbox.conf.example.gz in /usr/share/docs/dosbox which I've unzipped to a temporary folder. Maybe I don't have a configuration file? If so, …

Re: Changing screen color, and other questions

Posted on 2008-02-03, 19:39

the colours are switchable if you really want it. I really want it. When I run this app in Kubuntu/KDE the white text on black background is a bit fuzzy, and since the window's small, kinda hard on the eyes. Under Ubuntu/GNOME it's more readable, but I use Kubuntu almost exclusively. (either a tsr …

Changing screen color, and other questions

Posted on 2008-02-03, 00:21

I am using DOSbox to run a DOS-based outlining program that I've been using for over 20 years. I'm wondering if it is possible to switch the character and screen colors -- from white on black to black on white. Also, the application is not recognizing characters entered from the numeric keypad or …

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