MiniMax puts on his telepathic mind-reader and boosts the amplification up real high

You forgot to mention that you are using a German keyboard. You need to give the command KEYB DE.

aaahhh... Thank you!!!

Was that true? 😳

"The Force is particular strong in MiniMax"

Can I change the preferences so that DOSBox always starts with the german keyboard layout?

Yes. Add a line containing keyb de to the end of your dosbox.conf file, below the [autorun] section.

Or scan your config file ("dosbox.conf", or usually the pre-defined "DOSBox Preferences" file
in the Mac port) for "keyboardlayout":

# keyboardlayout -- Language code of the keyboard layout (or none).
keyboardlayout=gr

gr or de should give the same result. gr is used oftener, I think.

Or somewhen start reading the readme BEFORE asking questions.

What a radical thought.... Reading before asking questions. What a novel concept. The world will surely end if people start doing that.

wd wrote:

Or somewhen start reading the readme BEFORE asking questions.

There is a basic question thought.
-> How to read a readme???

Reader must know what to look for, so don't come with "Read the Readme". 🤐

I don't know how it works on a Mac, but a standard install of DOSBox in Windows produces an entry in the Programs menu as shown below. Reading the aptly named README file is done by selecting that instead of DOSBox itself.

MiniMax wrote:

Reading the aptly named README file is done by selecting that instead of DOSBox itself.

That's what the peoples want to know 😁

The Mac port doesn't come with an installer, but the users have to copy the application onto the hard disk.

In ideal case, they don't forget to copy the Readme file, too...
In better ideal case, they copy the complete content of DOSBox stuff onto their hard disk.