Dosbox - play old DOS games

Intro

Dosbox is a DOS-emulator pretty much complete with everything (one can even record screenshots and/or video ingame!).

Download and install

Download and install dosbox. On most linux systems it's most likely in your repository so a quick emerge og aptitude should fix that problem.

On Windows one can download the newest version off sourceforge (0.70 as of now).

dosbox download page Should lead you right there; select the Windows - win32 installer.

Setup config file

Firstly decide where you want to store your dos-applications and create that dir.. like /home/$user/dos or just \dos under windows. Create the config file:

Z:> config -writeconf "/path/to/dosbox.conf"

This will create a generic config file - edit it with your favorite editor; it's just a normal textfile.

I only had to add a few lines which would automatically mount my dosdrive and enter it. At the very end of the config file, add something like:

mount C "/path/to/dos-dir"
c:

Where one of course substitues the path to the real path.. like /home/$user/dos on linux or \dos in windows.

I also had to change the keyboard layout to Swedish, since the default American keyboard doesn't really work for me.

In case you wonder why Swedish; there is no Danish layout atm, and the Swedish one is about 100% likewise to the Danish one.

I just changed the option keyboardlayout (in the dosbox.conf file) to use the Swedish charset instead (sv).

keyboardlayout=sv

Keyboard shortcuts

Should be worth noting some shortcuts can be used to make life easier

Shortcut	Description
ALT-ENTER	Full screen
CTRL-F5	Snapshot (define this dir in dosbox.conf!)
CTRL+ALT+F5	Start/stop Record video of the dosbox session
CTRL-F7	Decreases frameskip
CTRL-F8	Increases Frameskip
CTRL+F9	Stop (terminate) the dosbox session
CTRL-F11	Slows down the game
CTRL-F12	Speeds up the game

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