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First post, by scrufy12parsecs

Posted on 2021-06-01, 01:08

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Greetings,

I'm running DOSBox 0.74-3, which I installed from package on the latest version of Mint GNU/Linux. I'm trying to install MS-DOS in DOSBox, which I'm close to completing. Where I'm getting stuck is being able to swap disks in the installation. Ctrl-F4 opens another TTY, since I'm on GNU/Linux instead of swapping disks. Is there another key combination that I can use or define? Does my autoexec.bat look correct? When I start DOSBox from the shell, I can see that it's loaded each installation disk and don't see anything that stands out as an error. Thanks for taking the time to offer some advise.

My autoexec.bat

1imgmount a "/home/scm/OS/MS-DOS/Disk1.img" -t floppy
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3imgmount c "/home/scm/OS/DOSBox/MS-DOS.img"
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5boot "/home/scm/OS/MS-DOS/Disk1.img" "/home/scm/OS/MS-DOS/Disk2.img" "/home/scm/OS/MS-DOS/Disk3.img"

Reply 1 of 5, by Jorpho

Posted on 2021-06-01, 01:48

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The standard version of DOSBox does not support floppy swapping. You need an SVN version for that.

Reply 2 of 5, by scrufy12parsecs

Posted on 2021-06-01, 02:22

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Jorpho wrote on 2021-06-01, 01:48:

The standard version of DOSBox does not support floppy swapping. You need an SVN version for that.

Thank you Jorpho for your reply! That saves me a lot of time. I'll look into that.

Reply 3 of 5, by BitWrangler

Posted on 2021-06-01, 02:23

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Also all the DOSbox binaries in distribution repositories are quite old and buggy as hell, you're better off compiling from source for standard DOSbox

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Reply 4 of 5, by jmarsh

Posted on 2021-06-01, 05:20

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To workaround the hotkeys switching the active terminal, you can run DOSBox with the "-startmapper" argument to open the keymapper and rebind the "Swap Image" operation to a different key combination.

Reply 5 of 5, by kjliew

Posted on 2021-06-01, 05:25

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scrufy12parsecs wrote on 2021-06-01, 01:08:

... I'm trying to install MS-DOS in DOSBox ...

But why? No DOS games would demand a true MS-DOS to play. You could just mount a folder and start playing DOS games right away. That's the beauty and simplicity of DOSBox for DOS games and you don't seem to appreciate that ... 🤣.

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