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First post, by i_hate_registering

Posted on 2008-02-11, 21:30

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Ok, I've spent a good 10 mins searching and not found anything, so I figure I may as well ask:

Is there a comprehensive list of dosbox hotkeys anywhere?

And more importantly (for me) - is there any way to re-map or disable them from being active? Because they override the in-game functionality that those hotkeys would otherwise provide.

Thanks

Reply 1 of 6, by wd

Posted on 2008-02-11, 21:36

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->readme->mapper

Reply 2 of 6, by MiniMax

Posted on 2008-02-11, 21:48

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Z:\>intro

Amazing how helpful DOSBox is - IF YOU JUST CARED TO LOOK!!!!!

Reply 3 of 6, by Gene Wirchenko

Posted on 2008-02-11, 22:42

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[quote="MiniMax"]Z:\>[b]intro[/b]

Amazing how helpful DOSBox is - IF YOU JUST CARED TO LOOK!!!!![/quote]

I have used DOSBox since version 0.65. The intro command never worked for me.

With the example above, I got suspicious and tried switching to z: first. It then worked.
z:intro
also worked. It never occurred to me that intro was to be considered a program on drive z:. (It looked as if it were an internal command.)

I call this a bug by violation of the Law of Least Astonishment.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

Reply 4 of 6, by i_hate_registering

Posted on 2008-02-11, 23:24

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MiniMax wrote:
Z:\>intro

Amazing how helpful DOSBox is - IF YOU JUST CARED TO LOOK!!!!!

I DID look, just in the wrong places it seems.
That's the problem with being smarmy, in this case you are assuming the person knew what to look for and where. I tried "shortcut key" and "hotkey", however it seems that I should have been looking for "keymapper".

But thanks anyway, that should do it.

Reply 5 of 6, by MiniMax

Posted on 2008-02-11, 23:27

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So... it is wrong to assume that people will look at the start-up screen that is displayed in colourful details when DOSBox starts?

And about that Z: drive thing - You don't need to switch to Z: for the command to work. But you DO NEED to not muck around with the PATH variable, which by default includes Z:\.

Reply 6 of 6, by wd

Posted on 2008-02-12, 08:29

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I call this a bug by violation of the Law of Least Astonishment.

As minimax said, the Law of Least Astonishment is not valid if the
user screws up the path variable of course. Your fault.

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