DOSBox emulation questions

[kc187]

Hello all, need a little help here.


I'm trying to install a dos game through DOSBox. I keep trying to mount a folder on my SD card as a virtual drive, but it keeps saying "directory not found."


I think this problem has to do with DOSBox not allowing me to use a tilde ~.


Any help would be greatly appreciated.


EDIT= Nevermind. I wasn't using the front end. Sorry. I guess you can close this thread now. Thanks.


EDIT2= Actually, this didn't wholly fix my problem. Still can't make a tilde. Anyone got any ideas?

 

[darfgarf]

if you're trying to use a ~ how is the directory on your sd card? ~ signifies your home directory, which is on the nand


should be something like 'mount c /media/mmcblk0p1/mygames' etc

 

[F_Slim]

You shouldn't use names longer than 8 characters in DOS anyway. Then you don't need the ~ ...

 

[WizardStan]

Dosbox uses the old Dos keyboard mappings where tilde is an upper-case back-tick. Press Fn-Shift-H


I'm betting there's a way to change this, but I'm sufficiently lazy that it's easier to just push three keys than it is to actually figure out how to fix it

 

[SirDregan]

Dosbox uses the old Dos keyboard mappings where tilde is an upper-case back-tick. Press Fn-Shift-H


I'm betting there's a way to change this, but I'm sufficiently lazy that it's easier to just push three keys than it is to actually figure out how to fix it

Could you tell me how to make a ":"?


Haven't figured it out yet and was too busy playing Chrono Trigger

 

[WizardStan]

: is an uppercase ;


press Fn-Shift-<

 

[F_Slim]

In principle this makes sense, by default DosBOX assumes a US-keyboard layout (I guess). That's why ~ is shift+` and ; is shift+:


Does the pandora layout follow any standard-layout rule? If it does, it should be easy to change, probably right in dosbox.conf ... there: keyboardlayout=<KEYB code>

 

[SirDregan]

: is an uppercase ;


press Fn-Shift-<

Uhh thanks a lot!


Silly me, I just tried Shift+< and FN+< ... O__o

 

[kc187]

Dosbox uses the old Dos keyboard mappings where tilde is an upper-case back-tick. Press Fn-Shift-H


I'm betting there's a way to change this, but I'm sufficiently lazy that it's easier to just push three keys than it is to actually figure out how to fix it

FN+Shift+H fixed it. Thanks a bunch!