Oh and another thing. It's supposed to capture when I hit Ctrl-F6, is this different on OSX? I don't think it is. Is there supposed to be a message to let me know it's logging the WAV? I don't see one ever, not even a message telling me it can't log the wav.

Thanks again,
Alex.

remove the leading /
and you might need to press some apple key as well

I don't know anything about the directory scructure of MAC or of the path naming but you could try it with an absolute path.

All right, here's an interesting development for me:
NONE of the Ctrl-F(x) keys are working for me, probably because they're all tied to OSX system commands.
I can't even run the keymapper, because that's Ctrl-F1

So maybe my problem is less about that directory, and more about my keymapping...

Do all OSX Dosbox users have this problem?

Did you try the Apple-Key instead of the conrol key? Or both apple and control key and then the Fx keys?

Yes, I just tried that, and it opened up the keymapper fine when I did ctr-alt-F1. But ctrl-alt-F6 still does nothing. Am I supposed to get a message if it's working?

As I remember, there is no message as it would interrupt the gameplay or working... You just will see that a new file in your directory is created where dosebox actually write on it.

Now the keymapper is accessible. Klick on the button wich says "Rec Wave".

At the bottom of the screen you see Mod1 till 3 (1). These are the modifier keys. They are defined right above them Mod 1 till 3. (2) Here you can look wich key is actually assocated as modifier key. I think you should assocate the Apple-Key. It should (hopefully) work without problems.

in dosbox status(console) window you see all messages of started/stoped recording/capturing

in dosbox status(console) window you see all messages of started/stoped recording/capturing

By default you don't get to see the console with the 0.73 dosbox app. Further down I'll explain what to do about this 😀

@biopharmer in your ~/library/preferences/DOSBox 0.73 Preferences edit the capture setting so it uses the full path, e.g.
captures=/users/YOURUSERNAME/documents/dosbox/capture

Also ctrl+cmd+f6 works for me. To see the console so that you can see whether it does anything, in Finder right click (or cmd+click) dosbox in the programs folder, choose "show packet contents" (or similar, in German it's "Paketinhalt zeigen"), in the new finder double click on on the folder contents then doubleclick on the folder MacOS and finally doubleclick on DOSBox.
Dosbox will start as well as a terminal console in which you will see the console messages of Dosbox.

Dominus wrote:

captures=/users/YOURUSERNAME/documents/dosbox/capture

For short, captures=~/documents/dosbox/capture
where ~ is your user name folder.

If the path include space char, quote the path in "

working now guys thanks.

I can probably figure this out myself but, does anyone know how to get this nasty buzzing out of the background of the midi files I'm playing with it?

I just upgraded to 0.73, was the Adlib emulation changed?

I'm using Midier to play music from Zeliard.

I thought the buzzing COULD be because it was on extended midi instead of general midi, but this was not the case.

Thanks for the help guys!
Alex.

midi and adlib got nothing todo with each other

Well, it's a midi file player that uses adlib to play it. I know all about midi, and I know all about FM synthesis, I know the differences.

Nice, guess you can figure out your sound backend problems yourself then.
Otherwise: yes the adlib emulation was changed, namely random buzzing
was added for completeness.