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DOSBox debugger - my laptop has no pause key->

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First post, by Peter Swinkels

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Hi,

As stated in the subject line, I am trying to use the DOSBox debugger on a laptop which does not have a full keyboard. This means there's no pause key to be found (and no it's not FN+some other key) and I am unable to pause DOSBox for debugging.

While changing the keybindings in DOSBox does give me a pause key the debugger doesn't seem to recognize it. Other than finding an external keyboard to use, I see no other solution. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thank you.

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Reply 2 of 3, by ripsaw8080

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You can remap what activates the debugger; alt-pause is just the default binding. You're probably not using the mapper the right way: don't change the binding on the "PAU" event, change the binding on the "Debugger" event.

Reply 3 of 3, by Peter Swinkels

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Those are all good suggestions! Thank you, every one.

ps:
The laptop was borrowed. Now using my own pc again. 😀

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