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dosbox.conf under Linux

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First post, by ionmich

Posted on 2007-10-15, 03:23

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I have just installed DosBox and it's running under Linux.

When I try to "config -writeconf test" no file is produced.

When I try to speed up using the F-keys nothing happens. However the ALT-ENTER does change the screen size.

I read the dosbox guides but Linux is not covered. Any help would be much appreciated. My application is running but very slowly. The CPU cycles box indicates 3000.

Thanks

Reply 1 of 7, by wd

Posted on 2007-10-15, 07:31

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Works fine here.

Reply 2 of 7, by bugs_bugger

Posted on 2007-10-15, 08:24

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Maybe you need to create the file test first, do touch test on your console.

Reply 3 of 7, by MiniMax

Posted on 2007-10-15, 08:33

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touch'ing should not be necessary. ionmich is probably looking for the file in the wrong place.

Try this before write-conf'ing:

mount X "."
X:
dir test
config -writeconf test
dir test
dir

Is the file there?

Reply 4 of 7, by Qbix

Posted on 2007-10-15, 09:54

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nah won't work
dosbox writes when no file is given in to your current working directory.

so try
config -writeconf /tmp/test.conf

Water flows down the stream
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Reply 5 of 7, by MiniMax

Posted on 2007-10-15, 11:11

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Well Qbix - that is why I asked to have "." mounted as X 😀

Reply 6 of 7, by wd

Posted on 2007-10-15, 11:35

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Yeh and if he's using dosbox 0.58 both things won't work. Same for some
hardened textmode close-but-not-yet-linux.

Reply 7 of 7, by ionmich

Posted on 2007-10-15, 17:19

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Thanks everyone. I found it in my Linux home directory. I wasn't looking very logically. Working on the speed problem now. I am sure I will have more questions later.

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