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# Lines in this section will be run at startup.

mount C C:\Games

C:

keyb gr

# Add these for MoO2

# cd...

# cd orion2

# ipxnet connect 192.168.2.125

# orion2~1

You folder "C:/games" will not be mounted?
DOSBox don't switch to drive C: and won't run the keyb command?
Be sure, there is a keyb application in your c:/games folder.
When using 0.70 or newer, you may set "keyboardlayout=gr" in the DOS section of the config file instead of calling it in the AUTOEXEC section.
The # comments the lines, these will not be executed.

Yeah, on startup none of the commands is executed. The commands all _do_ work, just not automatically. If I enter them manually all's fine, but the purpose of the autoexec's is to have them executed automatically, isn't it?
And yeah, the lines with # aren't supposed to be run, that's right, that's intentionally.
The keyboard application is there, too.

Only problem here: it won't execute automatically. Everything else works.

is it loading THAT dosbox.conf? Where is it located on your hard drive and (questions to other users) where is it supposed to be on Vista?
On XP dosbox.conf is supposed to be in the folder where dosbox is installed to UNLESS you are starting a game per drag'n'drop, then the conf needs to be in the folder of the game.

It's in the same folder where it first was: in the installation folder. (Under C:\Program Files\DosBox to be precise). As it was created there when installing, I just edited it from there...

Put a "pause" right after the mount and see if the mount succeeds.
If the pause isn't executed you're editing the wrong dosbox.conf

Hm, no, it is not executing the pause. It does says in the status window however:
"CONFIG:Loading primary settings from config file C:\Program Files\Dosbox-0.72\dosbox.conf".
That's the file I did edit. ..

You can't edit files in Program Files unless you run the program you used to edit it as Administrator or you changed the permissions on the folder. If you don't do those things then the program you used to edit the file should automagically save it to your Documents folder.

Oh my god, I found the mistake. When accessing the file, stupid Vista will give me some copy I can't distinguish from the original. I edited _that_ one with the standard notepad.
The real one, however, could only be accessed after browsing the folder with an external viewer _and_ editor (winscp in my case). Seems Vista's user security is working too well...
I feel embarassed and stupid. Tried for hours, however, and found that out only now. Pretty stupid feature of Vista, simply denying access would be more intelligent...

Thanks for your help anyway, and you might want to make a note in the documentation about this. It's really hard to notice this if you're new to Vista.

Edit: I was an admin, and I had sufficient rights to edit. Funny that Vista would hand a ghost file over to my text editor that doesn't appear nowhere in my personal folders and is restored when i load it again. And if I say funny I really mean idiotic. Duh.

It could be consider a bug in Vista-DOSBox that it doesn't check for the "ghost" version of dosbox.conf.

In fact, I consider it a bug.

How exactly do you check for a file that's most likely in some temporary
directory with a cryptic name?

wd - I don't have Vista, and I haven't looked into the mechanism used, but I think I read something about a shadow "ProgramFiles" folder being created somewhere inside the users Documents and Settings" foilder. I don't think it has a cryptic name at all.

Edit: Okay, found something -
http://www.west-wind.com/WebLog/posts/5584.aspx
http://juice.altiris.com/article/2665/folder- … s-windows-vista

Looks like the shadow (or virtual) dosbox.conf file would be in Users\xxxxx\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VirtualStore\Program Files\DOSBox x.xx\dosbox.conf.

I am sure there is some API that can generate the VirtualStore path for easy access.

MiniMax wrote:

wd - I don't have Vista, and I haven't looked into the mechanism used, but I think I read something about a shadow "ProgramFiles" folder being created somewhere inside the users Documents and Settings" foilder. I don't think it has a cryptic name at all.

I have Vista and I've never heard of this. You have the standard AppData folder, but no duplicate program files folder.

Oh my god, I found the mistake. When accessing the file, stupid Vista will give me some copy I can't distinguish from the original. I edited _that_ one with the standard notepad.
The real one, however, could only be accessed after browsing the folder with an external viewer _and_ editor (winscp in my case). Seems Vista's user security is working too well...

So in your external viewer do both show up? I don't quite understand what is happening here. Do you have UAC enabled or disabled?

Edit: Okay, found something -
http://www.west-wind.com/WebLog/posts/5584.aspx

That's supposed to be transparent to both the user and the app.

wd wrote:

Edit: Okay, found something -
http://www.west-wind.com/WebLog/posts/5584.aspx

That's supposed to be transparent to both the user and the app.

I agree, it should be transparent. And in most cases it probably is, but maybe some combination of installing as Admin, editing as User, and again running as Admin in order to mount a C:\Games folder "hides" the User folder?

One more link I found:
http://juice.altiris.com/article/2665/folder- … s-windows-vista

As avatar_58 noted, the logic of program files and application data is way
more strict under vista, the configuration files should go into some different
directory (AppData\whatever or so).