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First post, by MitAvras

Posted on 2018-07-29, 15:10

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Hello! I have troubles while trying to change the Options of DOSBox. Each time I try to open the DOSBox Options, nothing happened and although I change the options manually, when I start DOSBox, it starts with its default settings. My PC Configuration is:

CPU : Intel Core i-7 6800K @ 3.40 GHz
RAM : 64 GB @ 2.400 MHz
GPU : nVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 @ 8 GB DDR5
O/S : Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 64bit

Can you tell me why does it happen and how can I solve it?

Reply 1 of 4, by Qbix

Posted on 2018-07-29, 16:06

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are you sure that dosbox can read and write to the locations where the options are stored ?

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Reply 2 of 4, by MitAvras

Posted on 2018-07-29, 18:00

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I think so. How can I make sure DOSBox can write to a folder?

Reply 3 of 4, by Qbix

Posted on 2018-07-30, 05:36

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That is a tricky question actually.
So lets focus on a different part. If you start dosbox (by not using the non-console shortcut), 2 windows will pop up

in the "DOSBox Status Window" there should be some information printed on which configfiles are being used (and if a new one is being generated)

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Reply 4 of 4, by Ant_222

Posted on 2018-09-17, 21:17

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MitAvras wrote:
I think so. How can I make sure DOSBox can write to a folder?

Launch DOSBox and execute the following command:

1config -wc c:\temp\test.ini

Then check if the new config file has been created.

To use a specific config file, start DOSBox with:

1DOSBox.exe -conf c:\temp\test.ini

I think it is a bug that DOSBox does not issue a diagnostic if a non-existent or unavailable path is supplied, but you still can check the effect by adding an echo to the [autoexec] section of the config.

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