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First post, by timalicious

Posted on 2008-04-09, 05:27

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Hello I am a new user of the DOSbox and so far I've managed to run some games on there with no problems at all, but now I need to play a game that recquires the config file to be adjusted.

I have read up a bunch of stuff but I cant seem to change anything. I wanted to change the cycles and make fullscreen= true. I originally tried opening the dosbox config file in notepad but my comp wouldn't save any changes to the original conf file. It looks like from what I've read the conf file can be accessed from dosbox but I cant seem to find the right commands to be able to change an of the conf file.

Any helpful information would be most appreciated.

Thanks

Reply 1 of 3, by Kippesoep

Posted on 2008-04-09, 06:39

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My psychic abilities tell me you're running Vista as a non-administrator and DOSBox has its configuration file stored in the C:\Program Files\DOSBox folder. Mere mortals (i.e. non-administrators) cannot edit files in the Program Files directory. Either change the file while running as administrator or create a new dosbox.conf file in a place that you have access to (such as your Documents folder) and tell DOSBox to use that by starting it like so:

1dosbox -conf c:\users\timalicious\documents\dosbox.conf

One way to generate a config file in the correct location is to start DOSBox and type the command:

1config -writeconf c:\users\timalicious\documents\dosbox.conf

at DOSBox' internal command prompt.

Note: this assumes that your Windows username is "timalicious"

Reply 2 of 3, by MiniMax

Posted on 2008-04-09, 08:13

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.... or get one of the many DOSBox frontends (as long as they don't suffer from the same problem of indiscriminately dropping their configuration files in a no-no folder).

Reply 3 of 3, by IIGS_User

Posted on 2008-04-09, 15:21

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I installed DOSBox on a friends vista pc and when I installed DOSBox into the user's "Documents" folder instead of the "Applications" folder, it works fine.

Klimawandel.

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