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Run DosBox twice

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First post, by Balderich

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Is it possible to run DosBox twice at same time? I need two instances of it.

Reply 2 of 6, by Balderich

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I did. But it is not what I need.
I would start two diffrent Instances with diffrent settings.
Instance 1 should listen to COM1 and Instance 2 to COM2.
If I start these 2 instances (2 Copys of DosBox with diffrent setting in the "DOSBox 0.74 Options") only one of them starts... but this starts twice 🙁
So I can run two instances, both listen to COM1 or 2 Instances listen to COM2.
I'd also tried to use one DosBox Installation and as sencond Instance the Portable version, but same issue.
Any Idea?

Reply 3 of 6, by Balderich

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Got the issue. Both instances starts the C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\DOSBox\dosbox-0.74.conf
But how to get rid of it?

Reply 4 of 6, by IIGS_User

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Balderich wrote:

Got the issue. Both instances starts the C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\DOSBox\dosbox-0.74.conf
But how to get rid of it?

-conf

Klimawandel.

Reply 5 of 6, by Balderich

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This is what I was looking for. A bit complicated, but finaly it works.
Thanks a lot

Reply 6 of 6, by IIGS_User

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Nice to see I was able to help. 😀

Klimawandel.