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First post, by Wulf

Posted on 2010-04-10, 18:34

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I'm looking for a DOSbox frontend that will start up my games the way I start them manually. Problem is, if I start DOSbox up windowed, then maximise it, my graphics tend to be a bit garbled. Visible, but not pretty. If I start DOSbox up fullscreen, it's fine!

Trouble is, I've now tried DOSShell (tries to mount drives that are already mounted in my DOSbox config so I haven't got it to work so far), dbfrontend (too complicated...) D-Box (my favourite so far), D.O.G. and D-fend Reloaded (too many options...). All of them start the program up fullscreen, but with garbled graphics!

Does anyone understand this problem, and can offer a solution, or point me at a frontend that doesn't suffer from this?

Reply 1 of 6, by DosFreak

Posted on 2010-04-10, 19:20

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Reply 2 of 6, by Wulf

Posted on 2010-04-10, 20:45

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Thanks - this helps in some programs, certainly, although which setting to use varies, and only D.O.G. seems to have the options easily available.

Useful though.

Reply 3 of 6, by frobme

Posted on 2010-04-11, 05:08

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DBGL allows for configuring fullscreen/windowed when you start. Honestly I'm surprised any front end would NOT offer that.

-Frob

Reply 4 of 6, by Wulf

Posted on 2010-04-11, 06:32

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The fullscreen option is on all of them, I think, but the graphics are scrambled (well, slightly screwed, with some negative colour elements) when I use the option in any frontend, whereas it's fine when I use DOSbox 'manually'. The 'output=' option seems to be working fine so far.

Reply 5 of 6, by Alexander

Posted on 2010-04-11, 23:08

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D-Fend Reloaded can be used in Wine on Linux. It's also possible to run DOS games in the Windows version of DOSBox in Wine on Linux (yeah, double emulation). But D-Fend Reloaded also can create conf files for the Linux port of DOSBox (see Wine support page in the program settings dialog of D-Fend Reloaded).

Reply 6 of 6, by frobme

Posted on 2010-04-12, 02:53

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Not that I'm in the business of promoting it or anything, but the aforementioned DBGL works fine under Linux (you must have Java installed). It's one of the reasons I use it - I can use the same setup under Windows, OS/X, and Linux, all of which I use.

-Frob

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