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How can I remove the blue "Welcome to DOSBox" screen?

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First post, by didacticus

Posted on 2009-07-08, 02:24

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Can anyone tell me how I can disable the blue "Welcome to DOSBox" display that is displayed every time you start DOSBox?

I'm trying to work with Turbo C++ and the blue printout shows every time I switch to the shell from the IDE. It's very annoying! It takes up too much of the screen and covers up the output I want to see!

Has anyone else had this problem? Does anyone know how to get around it?

Thanks!

Reply 1 of 4, by wd

Posted on 2009-07-08, 05:40

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Type CLS.

Reply 2 of 4, by Zorbid

Posted on 2009-07-08, 08:35

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There's no way around it without editing the source and recompiling DOSBox.

Reply 3 of 4, by HunterZ

Posted on 2009-07-08, 16:21

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You could try downloading the freeware 4dos shell and renaming it to command.com and putting it in your path (inside of DOSBox) ahead of or in place of the Z:\ path entry. That way TC++ might launch 4dos instead of DOSBox's built-in shell.

Reply 4 of 4, by uridium

Posted on 2024-12-30, 03:23

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Sorry for the necro-post, but.. try doing a CLS in your [autoexec] section. I'm doing that.

1[autoexec]
2CLS    
3mount C /home/uridium/.dosbox/C_drive
4mount T /tmp
5C:
6SET PATH=C:\DOS;C:\TASM\BIN;%PATH%
7SET COMSPEC=C:\4DOS.COM
8SET SHELL=C:\DOS\4DOS.COM
9PROMPT $P$G
10CLS   
11@C:\DOS\4DOS.COM
12C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT

This way I get a clean startup, the banner is displayed but frankly on these modern whizz-bang computers, it's too quick to notice. 😀

For the curious.. C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT only contains an "EXIT" so that once 4DOS.COM gets the exit command, it'll also exit the Z:\COMMAND.COM from the command in the C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT and I don't need to type exit twice.

When I start dosbox to mess around in TASM all I see is a nice clean:

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