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Force game exit?

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First post, by Shamus

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I apologize if this has been mentioned somewhere and I failed to find it, but here goes.
Is there a key combination or something similar that would force DosBox to close the game currently open, but would not close DosBox itself? Quite a few oldies lack a proper EXIT function and it's quite a bit annoying to have to resort to closing DosBox, then having to go through the whole mount process again. It would be great to have the option of forcing DosBox to close the stubborn game.

Thanks in advance. 😁

Reply 2 of 3, by Shamus

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Awe alright. More work for my fingers then. Thanks for the answer~! 😀 DosBox still rules! Perhaps in some future version.

Reply 3 of 3, by ADDiCT

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That won't be possible, i think. There's no "generic" way of exiting DOS applications. There are a lot of solutions if you don't want to manually mount your drives each time you want to play a game. For example, using different .conf files (see the DOSBox readme on the "autoexec" part of the config file), or using a frontend like DBGL or DOG.

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