![]() ![]() Once in you can type help or help /allfor a list of DOS commands in case you forgot about DIR, CD and COPY. ![]() as argument to start it in the folder you're in, DOSBox will also give you a Z: drive with COMMAND.COM and friends. config/dosbox/nfĪ clip from Future Crew's Unreal II - The 2nd Reality demo running in DOSBoxĮither start it from a terminal or alt+f2 in XFCE4/KDE with dosbox /file/path where the argument is a path to a folder you'd like to have as your C: drive. You should create a standard nf file and copy or symlink that to whatever the latest version uses when your distribution upgrades DOSBox.ĭosbox-staging differs, it stick with one configuration file located at. You will need to copy your old configuration file to a new one in $HOME/.dosbox each time your distribution updates DOSBox thanks to the DOSBox developers being complete and utter morons in this regard.ĭOSBox version 0.74-2 will create and use while 0.74-3, basically the same version, will use. Note: DOSBox does this very annoying thing where it insists that each minor new version should have it's own configuration file. That is no longer the case with dosbox-staging, you can simply set gus = true in the section to enable it. It used to be the case that you needed the original GUS firmware to use Gravis Ultrasound audio. Gravis Ultrasound support is disabled in the default configuration file. Don't change one or the other, set both to 48000 is that is what your real sound hardware is using (which is probably is). Leave it at 441000 (default) if that is what your sound card is using. Check what your audio card is using with pactl list sinks to check if this is something you want to do. Multiples of those that work well areįor audio you may want to change both rate= under and oplrate= under to 48000. If it's decent you wantĭo keep in mind that MS-DOS games and other software was made for resolutions such as 320x200 and 640*480 when you set windowresolution=. You will want to edit the default configuration and likely want to change windowresolution and output under to something likeĪnd you will also want to change the scaler= under depending on your hardware. You can run DOSBox once to get a default configuration file created in that folder. However, dosbox-staging differs, it stores the configuration file in $HOME/.config/dosbox/nf. It can be installed with the usual method such as dnf -y install dosbox, dnf -y install dosbox-staging or emerge dosbox or by clicking apt://dosbox on Ubuntu.ĭOSBox stores it's configuration file in $HOME/.dosbox NOT $HOME/.config/dosbox as modern standards for configuration files dictate (placing configuration files in a dot folder in the home directory was how things were done in 2002 when DOSBox was initially released). 6 Quick Warning About "DOS Collection" ArchivesĭOSBox is available for as good as all the Linux distributions. ![]()
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