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First post, by Anderson2

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I could not find a forum for aDOSBox, the android port of DOSBox. I emailed the author of the android port twice with no response so I hope someone here might help me.

As a test, I installed regular DOSBox on my Windows 7 PC, mounted the dos program's folder as D:, cd'd to it and ran the DOS program I wanted on it. It ran fine. So I wanted to run the same program on my android phone.

I have an android 2.3.4 rooted phone on which I successfully installed aDOSBox. So on the phone I did the same as above, mounted the folder, moved to it and tried to run the dos program. Unfortunately after trying to start within 1 second aDOSBox crashed and threw me back into android.

I need help with the following (which may be similar as in DOSBox):

1. how do I find out what is crashing aDOSBox? I don't get any error messages. It just crashes.

2. Because it is a phone screen the aDOSBox text is very small. How does one change the font or magnify the text in DOSBox? It might be the same in aDOSBox.

3. The program I am trying to run is a low demand DOS program and it runs just fine in DOSBox on my Windows PC. Could I find out what the settings are in DOSBox so I can transfer them to the android port?

Finally, the DOS program is called Cpack200 and I would be glad to send its files if that would be helpful.

I hope someone on this forum can help me. Thank you for any help.

Reply 1 of 2, by Dominus

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1. Only the author can help you there
2. You can't in dosbox
3. In Windows the dosbox installation leaves a "edit settings" or similar startmenu item, this will show you the settings.

Back to 1, you can try whether the dynamic core crashes by typing core dynamic in dosbox. Or type core normal and then start your program.

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

Reply 2 of 2, by Anderson2

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Thank you for replying. This at least gives me something to work on. I will try both the core dynamic/normal and look for the settings in the windows installation.

Thank you.