Mr. horse wrote: Why not mount the CD drive to say, /home/dosbox/CDdrive and mount that folder as the D: drive in dosbox? I mean that's fine, but if I unmount and re-mount that, say if I eject a CD and put in a different one, will it update in dosbox? My experience would tell me no.

I am wondering, if I have an existing dosbox process running, can I have an external process send a command to that process without me actually typing it in? Specifically what I am wanting to do is write a script on my Linux box that detects when a cd-rom is inserted, for example, and automatically …

Hi folks, I have installed a creative Video Blaster rt300 ISA video capture card in my old pentium box with Windows 95. I installed the driver and diagnostic tool as well as Video For Windows. So there are three composite video ins on the back of the card. I assume these are inputs for standard …

So when you say "try different drivers" do you mean try video cards other than S3, or do you mean try different S3 drivers? I have tried other cards and some of them, for example the et4000, work ok with windows 3.1, but the fonts are awful. S3 has the best performance but only has this bug. Are …

Thought I'd mention, I managed to do this with a 512MB image. For some reason dosbox doesn't like 1GB images.

Hi, I am trying to get DosBox working with a boot image. I am following this guide: http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=7260 I am creating a disk that is 1GB (1024 MB) in size. Here is the output for my bximage: I will create a 'flat' hard disk image with cyl=2080 heads=16 sectors per track=63 …

Thanks, do any of those drivers support 1024x768 with 64k colors? I have tried the paradise as well as the et4000 and neither of them support it.

Sorry guys, I forgot to mention, I've tried different resolutions and also different video cards. I have had luck with other video cards (as well as the default VGA) but I was really wanting the s3 to be working because it has such a high potential resolution and color depth. I had some luck with …

Hi all, I have followed this forum: http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=9405 and have a working Windows 3.1 installed with the recommended S3 video driver and settings (version 1.70.04, 64k colors, 1024x768 res). The only problem that I am having is that when I open "control panel > desktop" …