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Re: Override mount directory within a program

In the documentation (Yes, I actually read it) it strongly advised against using "mount c c:\" for safety reasons. Yes, because it gives the DOS programs access to your entire drive. But that's exactly what you're trying to do anyway, by escaping the sandbox imposed by only being able to access …

Re: Boxedwine not running question

in PC Emulation
What really puzzled me was how long the emulator just twiddled its thumbs before throwing that error. It was either being very, very slow or it was doing something it really shouldn't have been doing. Not sure how Boxedwine in particular is handling page permissions for generated code (i.e. if it's …

Re: Change Cpu cycles based on game?

but according to the manual Both "-set" and "-get" work from ******************* !!!!! batch files !!!!!*************************** then this is a misleading No it's not. When did you ever try putting those commands in a batch file and running it inside DOSBox? Never mind that this isn't even your …

Re: Some advice with Pascal code, thanks!

in Milliways
jakethompson1 wrote on 2025-02-23, 00:52: A real program would never have dec esp or dec sp in it. That 56 49 4c 45 header would spell VILE; does that mean anything? Probably. It was written by VileR (who is a member here).

Re: Forcing 4:3 with VGA240

If the card was connected to the monitor digitally (using DVI or HDMI), the monitor would probably scale the active picture to fit the screen (hiding the blanking area). But it's also likely to get stretched horizontally because the digital transmission methods have a minimum dotclock speed and use …

Re: Some help with setting up SHSUCDX correctly

in DOS
Geri wrote on 2025-02-13, 11:08: config.sys: DEVICEHIGH=uide.sys /N1 /N3 /R15 /D:CD000 […] Show full quote config.sys: DEVICEHIGH=uide.sys /N1 /N3 /R15 /D:CD000 autoexec.bat: lh shcdx86 /D:CD000 /L:D /Q Did you read anything inside the thread, or just the title?

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