How to edit dosbox config file

Do aspect correction. Recommended as such games were designed for displays, and without aspect correction will look distorted and not as the developer intended. Specifies which scaler is used to enlarge and enhance low resolution modes, BEFORE any additional scaling done according to the Fullresolution and Windowresolution settings under [sdl].

To see comparisons between the different scalers, see Scaler. CPU core used in emulation. The choices result in a different efficency of DOSBox and in very rare cases have an effect on stability. Amount of instructions DOSBox tries to emulate each millisecond.

Set to max to automatically run as many cycles as possible. Amount of cycles to increase with keycombo. Amount of cycles to decrease with keycombo.

Configuration:Mixer see Sound. Here you can define any MIDI related settings. The term MIDI is commonly used to refer to background music found in games, but specifically it refers to synthesizer audio which can be passed directly from emulated games to modern hardware. Configuration:SBlaster see Sound. Same as -noautoexec, but adds config.

Uses the scaler specified by "scaler". See the DOSBox configuration file for the available scalers. Similar to the -scaler parameter, but tries to force usage of the specified scaler even if it might not fit. You can specify this command more than once. In this case it will move to second program if the first one fails to start.

See Section 9: "Serial Multiplayer feature. Other people should be able to use escaped double quotes inside the double quotes. To get a list of the internal commands type "HELP" at the prompt.

Sets the amount of free space available on a drive in megabytes regular drives or kilobytes floppy drives. This is a simpler version of -size. Sets the name of the drive to "drivelabel". For Windows: label is extracted from "Real Drive". If you do specify a label, this label will be kept as long as the drive is mounted. It will not be updated!! Forces use of the aspi layer. Forces use of ioctl commands. Valid on all systems, under windows the -noioctl switch has to be present to make use of the -usecd switch.

Enables to select the drive that should be used by SDL. See the information at the -usecd entry above. The same is true for mounting the root of any other drive, except for CD-ROMs due to their read-only nature.

Otherwise if you or DOSBox make a mistake you may lose all your files. You should always install your game inside DOSBox. So if you have the game on CD you always even after installation! MOUNT also works with images but only if you use external program, for example both are free :. It can save the current settings and language strings to disk.

Information about all possible sections and properties can be found in Section "The configuration options file". Write the current configuration settings to a file in a specified location.

The configuration file controls various settings of DOSBox: the amount of emulated memory, the emulated sound cards and many more things. BAT as well. See Section "The configuration options file" for more information. Write the current language settings to a file in a specified location. The language file controls all visible output of the internal commands and the internal DOS. See Section "The Language File" for more information.

Switches DOSBox to a more secure mode. It's not possible either to create a new configfile or languagefile in this mode. Warning: you can only undo this mode by restarting DOSBox. This can be used to store the value when using batch files. Both "-set" and "-get" work from batch files and can be used to set up your own preferences for each game.

Although it may be easier to use separate DOSBox's configuration files for each game instead. Program to reduce the amount of available conventional memory. Useful for old programs which don't expect much memory to be free. Make DOSBox reread the directory structure. Useful if you changed something on a mounted drive outside of DOSBox.

CTRL - F4 does this as well! The volume levels in percentages. If you put a D in front it will be in decibel Example: mixer gus d In Windows lists the available midi devices on your PC. In Linux this option doesn't work, but you get similar results by using 'pmidi -l' in console. Location of the image file to mount in DOSBox. The location can be on a mounted drive inside DOSBox, or on your real disk. If you need CD swapping capabilities, specify all images in succession see the next entry.

This guide will use the 0. Download the release for your operating system. If you are a Windows user, get the Win32 installer. After downloading, install DOSBox to any directory. Also, make a folder to put all your old games in. Your directories should look like this:. Now, the hardest part, getting games to run. First, run dosbox. You have to basically set that as new directory just for DOSBox. So, type:. You can find instructions on how to mount other devices, such as floppy drives, in the mount section.

To navigate to that newly mounted drive just type in:. Your Notifications. See new chat messages, friend invites, as well as important announcements and deals relevant to you.

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