DOSBOX Instructions - These are from 2010 so they may not still apply...

[Bob Cruse]

...but they were the most concise of all the emails I've saved from this group.
TAKE THESE INSTRUCTIONS WITH A BLOCK OF SALT! -)

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[INN Revival] Simple instructions for installing and configuring DOSBox and INN:

Yahoo/INN Revival

Theodore Pride <theodo...@gmail.com>

To:innre...@googlegroups.com

Sep 4, 2010 at 12:47 PM

1) Download and install the latest version of DosBox.

http://www.dosbox.com/download.php?main=1

INN has been tested with v 0.65 and up, earlier versions of DosBox may

or may not work. The configuration instructions below apply to v

0.73+, if installing a later version such as 0.74, substitute that

wherever I say 0.73.

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2) Download and install INN:

http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/27568/ImagiNation+Network,+The.html

(or search for abandonia INN on Google and click the first result)

NOTE: Click the "Clean original version without dosbox" under Extras,

not the "Get It" link. Some people have complained that the all-in-one

installer only works the first time after install, so it may be better

to stick with separate installs for DosBox and INN. I personally

install INN and my other DOS games inside a folder /Games/DosGames/

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3) Configure DosBox. FOR PC:

Open your DosBox installation folder. Double-click on DosBox 0.73

Options.

Edit the following line:

fullscreen=false (set to true if you play all your DOS games in full

screen mode rather than windowed)

Add at the very bottom these two lines:

mount c c:\Games\DosGames (or whatever the folder is you put INN and

your other DOS games inside)

c:

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FOR MAC:

Run the DOSBox application once to create the preferences file. Exit

DOSBox.

Open Macintosh HD, click the user listed below Desktop on the left.

Open Library/Preferences/DOSBox 0.73 Preferences in the plaintext

editor of your choice.

Edit the following line:

fullscreen=false (set to true if you play all your DOS games in full

screen mode rather than windowed)

Add at the very bottom these two lines:

mount c //Games/DosGames (or whatever the folder is you put INN and

your other DOS games inside)

c:

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Now create a text file called inn-run.bat, save it inside your

DosGames folder. Put inside that the following:

serial1=modem

cycles=12000

cd INN

INN

Now all you have to do is start DOSBox, then type inn-run to enter

INN.

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4) Other useful things to know:

Control-F9 exits DOSBox.

Alt-Enter (or Option-Return for Mac) toggles between full screen and

windowed mode.

In windowed mode, Alt-Tab (or Command-Tab on Mac) takes you out of

mouse lock so you can move the window around or switch between

multiple copies of DOSBox.

If you crash or lose connection while playing INN, it's probably a

good idea to restart DOSBox, not just try to run INN again.

If you want to run multiple copies of INN, you just duplicate the

DOSBox application (if on Mac, Windows doesn't require this), make

more copies of INN, and more copies of inn-run.bat that reference the

INN copies. Start DoxBox, type inn-run; start another instance of

DOSBox, type inn-run2, etc. Note that you want the DOSBox

configuration file to stay at fullscreen-false if running multiple

copies, so you can easily switch between them.