Given my fondness for the Magic DOSBox emulator, I decided to create an Android version—which is quite convenient, as the game is only 15 megabytes in size, unlike modern iterations that end up taking up half a hard drive. After a fair number of failed attempts, I managed to develop an ideal control scheme for a touchscreen. I’m particularly pleased with the interactive dashboard; it meant I didn’t have to build a full-blown piano simulator, allowing me to focus instead on the most essential elements. I’ve included a video demonstrating the gameplay for you to check out.

I'm running DOSBox Staging v 0.83.0 in bazzite linux, and I am attempting to mount a directory named "/run/media/system/dosgames" to drive C. The directory contains a number of individual games contained in their own subfolders.

Everything I have found online so far states that all I need to do to pull this off is type the following at the command prompt in DOSBox:

mount C /run/media/system/dosgames

Doing this, though, only generates the following error:

Image file not found.

I am at a loss as to how I am managing to mess up this very basic task: I'm not trying to mount an image; I'm just trying to mount a directory. All the instructions I have found online say this is how you do it. However, I am clearly not getting something here, so I am hoping somebody can't point out what must be a very dumb error on my part.

i'm using DOSBOX-X to run some of the first ham radio software to use sound cards as an RTTY modem, CW-DSP and INTERCOM. the problem is, while the transmit functions work just fine, neither program is getting audio input in receive mode. i'm running DOSBOX-X on a win11 laptop, and input to all software on this laptop comes from the microphone. both pieces of DOS software are hard coded for mic input as well. is there a problem with DOSBOX-X transferring mic input to software internally?

A short article about a feature I have recently contributed - already on the main branch, but not yet present in any official release. I'm just starting with GitHub Pages, so please forgive me the possible glitches :)

TrueType text output for dosbox-automation

A demonstration of my on-screen controls for the game MDK (1997) on Android.

Idk if this is the correct place to ask, but has anyone been able to get this game running from an iso? Might just be me being dumb, but dosbox, virtualbox, compatibility mode, etc. just never worked. I saw a thread a few years ago about the game, that it was hard to get running and no ones been successful. Not sure if its a 'solved' issue though. I did finally get it running on PCem after giving up like 2 years ago and then remembering it again recently. Just wanna know if I'm misremembering someone saying the iso files out there weren't working or if, in my frustration, I hallucinated that whole thread.

Does this feature work?

I try

IN 3DAh ; reset flip-flop side effect; value does not matter
OUT 3C0h, 13h
OUT 3C0H, 4h (range: 8, 0-7 in 9-dots VGA mode, 0-7 in 8-dots mode)

DOSBox seems to ignore that entirely [1]. But I don't get why. VGA_VerticalTimer should call

static void VGA_PanningLatch(Bitu /*val*/) {
    vga.draw.panning = vga.config.pel_panning;
}

And pel_panning is filled according to write_p3c0 source text. Everything is in place. Result = nothing.

I'm unfortunatelly missing the real hardware. It will take some weeks to get the reference PC. If on real hardware my program works, this is a bug.

Workarounds are welcome. If this is a bug, it will take eternity to update each and every fork, retroarch and other embedded dosbox instances. If possible, DOSBox compatibility is desirable to retain. Of course, non-smooth horizontal scroll will work. But vertical scroll working smooth and horizontal scroll working in jumps, what a disappointment it is.

[1] Well, not entirely. IN 3C1h can verify the value was updated. No visible effect.

How exactly do I have a real floppy drive mounted and then boot into c? I can't boot into c and then mount my real drive and every time I boot into a c drive img it unmounts eveything. Please help

I'm trying to run the game BARS (1994) on my PC before I write a script to run it on my aging mothers PC because it was one of her favorite games. The download came from https://dosgames.com/game/bars/ and has both a "start.bat" script as well as a basic exe script and 18 different numbered files.

I mount C:\bars\ as C:, CD into it and attempt to run both the batch script and the executable directly.

The editor's review on DOSGames said I had to change the "File Modified" date to 1994 so I did that using Powershell:

I still get the "Error reading file" error.

Like the title says I can not type in a big A with Shift+A, Caps Lock+A works. Other combinations Shift+Letter work without problems.

DOSBox is except for some crt filtering in default install stage. I never touched the key mapper afaik.

Does anyone know a solution or where to start looking?

Thx

PS: Shift+A works in windows and other programs so the keyboard is not the problem ;)

https://github.com/gschmidl/waw-staging#where-are-we-for-dosbox-staging

Where Are We? by EDV Software (Eric Van Heest) is a freeware companion for Might and Magic 1–3 and World of Xeen, The Bard's Tale 1–3 and Wizardry I–V: automaps, party, monster, item and spell information, quest lists. It reads the memory of a DOSBox 0.74 process on Windows.

This is an unofficial port of its 1.2.0.0 development build that reads the game through DOSBox Staging's HTTP API instead (DOSBox Staging 0.83 or newer). It runs with DOSBox Staging, keeps working with later versions, and runs on Windows, Linux and macOS:

i've spent the better part of a day trying to get this working. the best i can do is get dosbox-x running freedos to ping another VM on the same machine, but can't get out past that. i can telnet a telnet BBS using serial1=modem listenport 23, but can't get tcp/ip to work using mtcp. i'm thinking it's a windows11 problem because it doesn't work on 86box either.

First: AWE32 works under DOS just fine. I have the EMU8k firmware available and loaded.

Second: AWE32 works on windows with SB16 drivers.

But if I try to run the actual AWE32 Installer to get the EMU8k to work under Windows, it doesn't. It hangs on "sbawe32.drv" from SYSTEM.INI.

I've tried messing with A20 settings, CPU cores, types, cycles, etc. Nothing seems to work with that.

https://github.com/gschmidl/goldbox-staging#gold-box-companion-the-all-seeing-eye-and-ultimapper-5-on-dosbox-staging

Joonas Hirvonen's companion tools for the Gold Box games, Eye of the Beholder 1-3 and Ultima V, on DOSBox Staging 0.83 and later, through its HTTP API.

https://github.com/gschmidl/goldbox-staging#option-1-the-companion-pages

https://github.com/gschmidl/goldbox-staging/tags

Hi, i was wandering if anyone here can help me.

I am trying to play a game and when i click continue once it just continues forever.

I read this can be something to do with the cycles, so i changed that to be fixed at 5000 and it still happens.

Would love to hear of any ideas of how to solve this as ive had no luck in the past 3 days!

Thanks!

SOLVED!

beemans78 suggested to try Staging, and it works. Thanks for tip! Never knew about Staging. Also thank you for the tip about using sbpro2 instead, works like a charm.

Thank you for the membership.

I am trying to play Igor: Objective Uikokahonia through DOSBOX-X, but I cant use the controls and I am getting a error message from the game about some IBM ROM.
Browsing through the web I've found some ROMs and hints suggesting that DOSBOX-X needs to know the path of this ROM somewhere in the configuration.

But I dont where to put the info, I've looked in the config files, and in the configurations inside DOSBOX-X but there arent any clues to where to put the pathinfo.

Am I completely off here, and/or can anyone point me in the right direction?

All the best,

Martin

Is there a way to put actual full screen? or I'm stuck with the small window?

I've been going through like different forks of dosbox to see if any of them would work as a windows 98 emulator (W/ Pentium 2 and Voodoo graphics). The one that I feel like works the best right now is DOSbox Pure, but it has one big issue when I try to play a 3D game; the mouse will just straight up disappear when playing these kind of games, which makes navigating menus a pain. Granted, I can still move the mouse around and click and things which makes the problem alleviated in a game like "Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius" where the menu items change looks when they're highlighted by the (invisible) mouse. But for a game like "Lego Island" where the menu items remain static when highlighted, it makes the game flat out unplayable and forces me to shut the emulator off improperly because I can't quit the game. This problem also happened when I used DOSBox-X.

I'm on Windows 11 trying to run the ISO file I got from My Abandonware using DOSBox Staging. The guides I've seen online don't cover what to do with an ISO file.

I've right-clicked the ISO file and mounted it, and I can see the files inside the ISO. How do I access these files to run the .exe from DOSBox Staging?