Dosbox Typing Download
Astri Hirons
This is my first time using dosbox, so I have yet to have any problems with any specific programs or games. Right when I open dosbox and go to type, the letters I am clicking are instead numbers. My computer is a Samsung, with Windows 7.
I want to play typing based games like Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego or Mario teaches typing. But whenever I try typing, it doesn't work. It either doesn't work, or triggers a option on retroarch. (Like fast forward.)
This is can be a problem on Windows 10, if you have display scaling set to a value above 100%. Windows in that case will resize the screen on top of dosbox resizing the screen, which can happen for the output: ddraw, opengl, openglnb, overlay. You can disable this Windows behaviour by enabling a specific compatibility setting:
A rather unusual example, just to demonstrate what you can do (Windows): dosbox D:\folder\file.exe -c "MOUNT Y H:\MyFolder" This mounts D:\folder as C:\ and runs file.exe. Before it does that, it will first mount H:\MyFolder as the Y drive. In Windows, you can also drag directories/files onto the DOSBox executable.
With regard to actually setting up a network, one system needs to be the server. To set this up, type "IPXNET STARTSERVER" (without the quotes) in a DOSBox session. The server DOSBox session will automatically add itself to the virtual IPX network. For every additional computer that should be part of the virtual IPX network, you'll need to type "IPXNET CONNECT ".
For example, if your server is at bob.dosbox.com, you would type "IPXNET CONNECT bob.dosbox.com" on every non-server system.
DOSBox will load configuration files that are specified with -conf. If none were specified, it will try to load "dosbox.conf" from the local directory. If there is none, DOSBox will load the user configuration file. This file will be created if it doesn't exist.
A language file can be generated by CONFIG.COM, which can be found on the internal DOSBox Z: drive when you start up DOSBox. Look in the Section 4: "Internal programs" for usage of CONFIG.COM.
Read the language file, and you will hopefully understand how to change it. Start DOSBox with the -lang switch to use your new language file. Alternatively, you can setup the filename in the configuration file in the [dosbox] section. There's a language= entry that can be changed with the filelocation.
2) When i start dosbox as root, all the key bindings are absolutely wrong. My Enter key has been bound to 't' and my escape key hangs my machine. I cant even type exit.
I checked up the mapper.txt and found every key binding was screwed up, I corrected the mapper.txt and started dosbox with:
You can use a DOS device (e.g. CLIP$) to easily copy text to and/or paste text from the clipboard in DOSBox-X. To activate this function, please make sure the "Enable DOS clipboard device access: CLIP$" toggle within the "Shared clipboard functions" menu group is checked. Alternatively, you can enable it via the dos clipboard device enable setting in the [dos] section of the DOSBox-X config file (e.g. dosbox-x.conf) by setting it to true or full, then a DOS device (default name: CLIP$) will be added to DOSBox-X to allow bidirectional communications with the clipboard.
DOSBox is fairly easy to use, if it's not included in yourdistro's repo (openSuSE has it), download ithere.Once it's installed just type dosbox.When the DOSBox window appears the first thing you have to dois mount the directory that contains your DOS programas a DOS drive. You do this by typing a mount command in theDOSBox window, for example I did:
Mario comes to the PC, in the form of a typing tutor.
In this product you get to play one of four games, of progressing difficulty (as either Mario, Luigi or the Princess):
Mario's Smash & Dash: Assist your character run past a series of boxes and turtles, each labelled with a letter that must be typed to avoid the obstacle.
Mario's Wet World Challenge: Help your characters swim across the screen whilst being chased by hungry sea creatures - only typing the words that scroll across the bottom of the screen will let you escape.
Mario's Tunnel Of Doom: Help your character run through a tunnel filled with traps, avoiding falling blocks and the like, by correctly typing the sentences which scroll across the top of the screen.
Mario's Expert Express: Essentially a practice typing lesson where you copy and type pre-defined paragraphs with the assistance of Mario's supervision.
"loadfix -64" helps correct some start up and loading problems with various games. "mount f f:\ -t cdrom" let's DOSBox know which CD drive to use for games that require a CD for music or security checks (use whichever letter is for your CD drive... like if your CD drive was "G", you'd put "mount g g:\ -t cdrom"). "mount c c:\DOSGames -freesize 999" makes DOSBox think that the "DOSGames" folder is the C: drive (don't worry, this doesn't endanger any aspect of your PC) while telling DOSBox that there's 999MB available (this can be upped if needed), and "mount a a:\ -t floppy" let's DOSBox know which drive to use for floppy disks (again, use whichever letter your floppy drive has... assuming you have a floppy drive). "C:" automatically changes the "Z" to a "C" (it saves a little extra typing to do this).
I've got dosbox to run the setup off the cd of my game just fine, which is alot further than I was before when not using dosbox, but for some reason when my game asks me what directory to install to, it thinks my C drive only has 110MB of free space left. The game says it needs over 200MB to install and I know my C drive has over 200GIGABYTES of free space. Even when I just open up dosbox and type "dir" to look at the directory, it says I only have 110,xxx,xxx bytes free in my Games folder on my C drive. Is there a maximum amount of disc space I can use with dosbox? I'm really confused.
Then you have to just type hockey next time you start Dosbox, to play NHL95. (Well, you can even start game automatically, by adding hockey as last line on dosbox.conf.)
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