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First post, by beltashazzar

Posted on 2011-11-21, 19:53

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So I am having an issue with the mouse in DOSBox, specifically in Daggerfall, but presumably the same problem could happen in other games. I am running DOSBox 0.74 on OSX Lion. The specific problem is that once the game is running I cannot get the cursor to lock into the DOSBox window. I put this:

open -a TextEdit ~/Library/Preferences/DOSBox\ 0.74\ Preferences

into terminal to open up the preferences file, and it says that autolock=true, so the cursor should lock onto the screen when I click it. And I know that you can lock and unlock the cursor with ctrl-F10, but I do not think F10 works the same on macs.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated!
Thank you.

Reply 1 of 3, by Dominus

Posted on 2011-11-21, 22:33

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First of all, best try out the snapshot of SVN I'm compiling whenever there is a code change http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7737184/Dosbox/Dosbox-Snapshot.dmg
It also uses newer SDL code that makes it able to use Dosbox on Lion in fullscreen again. It might help your mouse issue.

Also F10 works the same on macs when
- you set OS X to use the F keys instead of the special features like brightness, mute etc. if you did you need to use fn+F keys to get the same result (or change the way OS X uses the keys (system preferences -> keyboard))
- you make sure no other function is set to the F key you are needing for Dosbox (again system preferences -> keyboard->keyboard shortcuts). As long as the F keys are assigned to some other task, you cannot use them in Dosbox.

Windows 3.1x guide for DOSBox
60 seconds guide to DOSBox
DOSBox SVN snapshot for macOS (10.4-11.x ppc/intel 32/64bit) notarized for gatekeeper