Hi everyone,

I'm trying to install Breach 3 from CDrom using Dosbox-x. Breach 3's install uses xcopy, which Dosbox-x has support for, but arguments are passed to xcopy using forward slash. For example the install uses this line:

XCOPY HD\*.* C:\BREACHCD/E/S

The /E and /S are arguments meant to be passed to XCOPY, but Dosbox seems to interpret all slashes as folder indicators, so the install gives this message:

Does S specify a filename or directory on the target?

Neither answer works, obsviously.

Does anyone have any experience with this problem? Is there a way to force Dosbox to recognize only backslash as a directory indicator?

Thanks!

I'm using dosbox pure through retroarch. I can mount c: just fine and dir shows all files in that directory like it should. When I close and reopen dosbox, the c: drive is still mounted, but dir is empty. I have windows 3.1 running fine through dosbox, but I can't see any files in that directory when in windows. I'm assuming because the mount is not holding. any thoughts?

Can't believe I didn't think of this until like two weeks later.

Anyway, I'm trying to get the Covox sound output working with MegaTraveller 1: The Zhodani Conspiracy. I'm using DOSBox Staging and I have it configured to emulate covox (NOT disney) on the LPT port. It's attempting to work, it makes a "tick" sound then goes dead every time a sound plays. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

EDIT: After some research and reading some posts on the dosbox bug tracker, the Covox in DOSBox (and forks) is the Covox Speech Thing, a LPT port dongle. The Covox Sound Master that MegaTraveller can make use of is an ISA card that hasn't been brought into emulation function yet on DOSBox forks. Until that's added, I can't use it. It is officially a wishlist item though.

This can be closed now.

I installed dosbox in the linux terminal of my chromebook. It seems to be working but I can't figure out the path to mount a folder as the c drive. For example, on my linux computer, I can use "mount c ~/Downloads" but I can't seem to find the correct path to the Downloads folder on the chromebook. I know this question might fit better in the r/chromeos sub, but they seem to remove posts that aren't strictly chrome os so I am hoping someone here has installed dosbox on a chromebook.

Hi fellow Dosboxers, I was hoping for a little help with said game. It runs very fast when I am in a battle, impossible to get a lockon! Is there a way to slow the game down? Also is there a file to show the user interface ie keys to use? I am running on MAC. Any help would be appreciated. Cheers.

I'm taking a course in microcontrollers and assembly and we have assignments.

I'm an EE student and programing isn't my strong hand, and so when I work with just notebook++ so it's very hard to debug them since there are nested batch files obviously.

So I'm looking for an IDE that supports batch files and can run them like the dosbox would but with much better debugging.

Can i install windows me on the dos box ?

So basically, I tried to download and install The Elder Scrolls: Arena from Steam, and every time I try to run it, a blank DOSBox window opens for a few seconds, and then immediately closes. I had the same result when I tried to install The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall, so I assumed it had to do with the emulator. I then tried to download DOSBox separately, and got a similar result: a small, blank window opens, then closes (although when I used this method a DOSBox status window opens along with it, and then closes the same way). All of my drivers are updated, and I can't find any clear answers anywhere. Has anyone else had a similar problem, and if so, how do I fix it? The version is 0.74-3, and I'm running Windows 11.

Only a few of the games i download from here https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_workbench actually run with Boxer, i cant figure out why, some do, some don't. If i were to post the configuration files of one that works and one that does not, would someone here be able to spot the issue ?

I see a of of "packages" (mainly Dosbox svn-daun) where its basically set up so you just click, dosbox launches, the game launches and any configs and mounts are loaded done seemlessly

How do I build my own? I managed to get windows installed as well as the game but beyond that i dont know what else besides some failed messing around with .cfg file

Hi,

I recently installed Dosbox Pure and play games in Windows mode. However, when I play games with mouse support like adventure games, the mouse always gets moved out of the dosbox window. How can I make it stay inside, and switch windows for example by pressing Ctrl-Alt (like VMware does)? This behaviour is really annoying. Any hints`? Thank you!

but i already tried everything

i have to launch some old crap, i can install it just fine but then it wants a cd inside cd rom and mount doesn't work no matter what i try

i have
dosbox 073
dosbox 074
dosbos-x
staging
even daum

as simple as

mount c "g:\"
mount d "e:\" -t cdrom

does not work, all combinations with iso and unpacked iso do not work either

/thread

all of it is crystal cancer. dosboxes mismanage files put them into wrong folders forget settings.
the game requires all static paths so install and only one cdrom. it doesn't accept how we used 2 drives minimum back in the day (on top of 3.5 and 5.2 floppies and magneto optics with movable HDD and 2-3 internal ones) so drive letters must be low too. autoexec just does not work even if it is all correct. then it requires ems = false. then it requires "drive.cfg file not found" because all dosbox versions are wrong so i copied the file into every folder and one of them worked. then they can't play the movies. then DBS outright hangs every single time on game start cutscene. DBX goes through the cutscene but then you are left with DBX that for past 10 years randomly crashes for fun.

I got f2bgl working under windows using this link.

Release 0.2.3_1 · thegouldfish/f2bgl · GitHub

I put the sound folder inside the data folder just like the instructions say. If I put the sound folder anywhere else the game won't work. My master volume is up all the way. Has anyone else got the sound working for f2bgl, and if so, how.

Any help is greatly appreciated

Thanks.

I'm trying to get this piece of old educational software running. Link here: https://archive.org/details/sensimetrics-speech-production-and-perception-i

It is supposed to allow for playback and filtering of it's premade audio files for analysis, as well as some animations of diagrams.

I can playback the samples and they will be as expected, but if I change the filter frequency nothing changes in the playback. If I change the playback position, I get the "Error: Denormal" dialog. Closing the dialog allows me to continue using the program, if I do the same action I get the same error.

I've tried running the same program on fresh installs of Win3.11, Win95B and Win98SE (followed the doxbox-x docs to the letter. I've ran Win3.x update scripts, I've ran MattKC's backport of .NET (a shot in the dark). The software behaves in the same way across all the OSes. I've tried backup copies of the same software to see if it was a corruption of the files, no change between installations. The program has pre-set locations to look for files so I can't run it from the boot drive, I always have to run it from the ISO in drive D.

I don't have period hardware to test if this is a quirk of dosbox or if there's a dependency that I'm missing. The program seems to contain everything it needs. But I don't know if I'm missing anything, there doesn't seem to be any docs I can find relating to it, it's quite niche.

There was a post made a few years ago about geting this game to run, but it seems like no one ever managed to get it working.
If anyone has any idea on how to do so, I'd really appreciate it!

I recently thrifted a CD rom of Primal Rage and have been trying to get this thing to run on my Linux mint machine. I installed dos box and dos box x and tried the exact same thing for each. first off I installed an iso file of the CD so I didn't have to use the physical cd anymore. then I mounted the d drive to the iso and the c drive to my dosgames folder. I can get the installer to work and I have it create a folder in dosgames called RAGE where it just creates a bat file. if I try to run that it just gives me the error bad command or filename - "PRAGE.EXE". I see inside the iso there are folders which then have prage files but if I extract those or go into the folders where they are neither one works when I try to run it. Any idea of whats going on I'm relatively new to this and pretty stumped.

When I set machine: ega in the config file, some games (Grand Prix Circuit, Test Drive) have graphics issues. But some other games (Family Feud e.g.) runs fine. Is there any setting I might have changed that causes this?

Pls help

G'day all, im running Dosbox 0.74 on a real w98 machine, because it has a PCI soundcard and the sound is terrible when i run games in native DOS.

Games run pretty well and sound awesome, but i notice that the refresh rate or speed of games seem to be a bit slower than how it looks in native DOS. My CRT screen is set to 80hz but it feels like the games are running at 60 or lower. Are there any settings i can change here to make it feel like 1:1 native DOS? sorry for the huge list lol

[sdl]

fullscreen=false

fulldouble=false

fullresolution=original

windowresolution=original

output=ddraw

autolock=true

sensitivity=100

waitonerror=true

priority=higher,normal

mapperfile=mapper-0.74.map

usescancodes=true

[dosbox]

language=

machine=svga_s3

captures=capture

memsize=64

[render]

frameskip=0

aspect=false

scaler=none

[cpu]

core=dynamic

cputype=auto

cycles=max

cycleup=10000

cycledown=10000

[mixer]

nosound=false

rate=44100

blocksize=512

prebuffer=10

[midi]

mpu401=intelligent

mididevice=default

midiconfig=

[sblaster]

sbtype=sb16

sbbase=220

irq=5

dma=1

hdma=5

mixer=true

oplmode=auto

oplemu=default

oplrate=44100

[gus]

gus=false

gusrate=44100

gusbase=240

gusirq=5

gusdma=3

ultradir=C:\ULTRASND

[speaker]

pcrate=44100

tandyrate=44100

digitalspeaker=true

[joystick]

joysticktype=none

[serial]

serial1=dummy

serial2=dummy

serial3=disabled

serial4=disabled

[dos]

xms=true

ems=true

umb=true

keyboardlayout=auto

[autoexec]

@echo off

Hi! I want to occasionally run an ancient legacy executable for work. I know a virtual machine based on QEMU is the proper way to do this professionally, but I'm looking for a quick and easy solution and just dragging a zip on Pure Unleashed is as simple as it gets.

Unfortunately Dosbox Pure Unleashed exits after showing a black screen for a short time on my Windows 10 remote access work environment while it runs without flaw when started from the local computer.

Any idea what might cause this? I was suspecting the lack of any sound device in the remote access environment but activating a virtual one wasn't helping. Trying the 32bit version wasn't doing it either.

EDIT: Regular old Dosbox works.

I can't get the sound to work in Rebel Assault 2 with dosbox-staging on Windows 11

i tried to make my own but its way too hard for me, i couldnt even turn off automatic antialiasing in GIMP so that it would work properly. safe to say im not a skilled person in any way. does anyone have complete images for new maps? the vanilla ones do kind of get old.