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First post, by Alessio

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Hi all,
First I must say, I did not much with the dosbox and also MS dos in the past.
But now I have to get an older program for a machine control (so it's not a game) to run on a Win2000 machine.
I tried with dosbox 0.63 and after a silly problem it worked... I thought

In my screen there are some lines cut off. The title doesn't appear (only when I refresh the screen by hitting enter it appears for less than a second) and at the bottom there must be a line with the description of the different function keys.

When I press e.g. the F2 key, it works partly, but the screen isn't refreshed. (I think that's one of the problems) So I have the 3 or 4 lines of the new screen thrown over the text of the first screen (see Dosbox_screen2)

As the command "mode con cols=80 rows=50" seems not to work in dosbox I ask for help, if anyone knows a way to enlarge the screen size.

I have disabled all sounds on one machine but not on the other, but the problem is the same...
here's a part of the config where video settings are made:

fullscreen=false fulldouble=false fullfixed=false fullresolution=1024x768 output=surface hwscale=0.1 […]
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fullscreen=false
fulldouble=false
fullfixed=false
fullresolution=1024x768
output=surface
hwscale=0.1

Sorry, if I forgot anything important, just tell me ;). The cpu and all that stuff doesn't seem to have an effect on the problem as i tried this program on two completely different machines.

Greetz Alessio

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Reply 3 of 22, by wd

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There are prebuilt windows executables as well, see
http://cvscompile.aep-emu.de/dosbox.htm
or have a look at the development forum here (cvs builds
are derived from the currently developed sources).

Reply 6 of 22, by `Moe`

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This could be a bug (limitation) in DOSBox. As far as I have experienced, the built-in BIOS emulation doesn't handle text modes with more than 25 lines correctly (regarding scrolling and other text output functions). You could try to use a DOS boot image. Since you are not running a game, other solutions might be difficult - DOSBox is focused on games, and application problems are not always handled.

Reply 7 of 22, by wd

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In real dos, did you type "mode con cols=80 rows=50" before running
the program, if so what happened when you left out the mode command
(did it look like what you get in dosbox now?)

Reply 9 of 22, by Alessio

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wd wrote:

In real dos, did you type "mode con cols=80 rows=50" before running
the program, if so what happened when you left out the mode command
(did it look like what you get in dosbox now?)

yes, I think, but I know, that it was necessary to type the mode command, but because it was in the autoexec nobody thought about a problem ;)

Reply 10 of 22, by wd

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As HAL said, in this case you can try mode.com from freedos,
which should work fine for mode switching. You can create a
batch file then that loads mode.com with those parameters and
starts the program, so it doesn't impose much difficulty to the users.

Reply 12 of 22, by Alessio

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hmm... i have now a functionable mode.com, but it seems, that just the support for the parameter "con" is not loaded.

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Reply 17 of 22, by h-a-l-9000

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Yes indeed.

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