Hi there,

I tried to run DOSbox on my MAC. (OSX 10.4.2 Tiger) and just found out that the "special keys" do not work correctly ...

CTRL
SHIFT
/
\

Yeah, and of course you can't edit a file like "autoexec.bat" to put the mount-expression to it for beeing able to play at least some games ...

Has anyone an idea that could help ?

Cheers,

swiss

doesn't dosbox come with a readme ?

of course it does. but that's the normal readme of the windows version with a small extra-text of the mac-version. but if doesn't give me any hints how to get it work.

looks like i still need to have my pc to play ... :blink:

trying using the apple key instead of ctrl?

The weird thing is that Macs never had DOS, so how would DosBox work on a Mac? Since Windows is basicly DOS with images, It must use some of the old source.

Nope ... I does not need DOS to run DOSBox ... How would the Linux version work ???

It's a project by Sourceforge and they mostly have every software for every OS. DOSBox is an emulator quite like your C-64 emulator (par ex).

To Ioncannon:
I tried almost every key and it doesn't work ...

I read the readme of this version but I don't find a hint on where the dosbox.conf is situated at MAC ... Searched in Preferences and in the System folders ... :help:

inside dosbox type :
config -writeconf /tmp/dosbox.conf

exit dosbox
in the readme of dosbox there is some part where dosbox looks for it's default configuration file (I recall something like ~/Preferences/applications/...)
copy the file to there and edit it

How can I type that in DOSBox when I can't type "/" ???

Well I go and search for the pref-file ....

config -writeconf dosbox.conf is fine as well
look in your current working directory when you exit dosbox

I got the mistake. The manual says that there are some problems with non-english keyboard layouts. I just thought that they meant the standard things like "z" is "y" and stuff I experience with my pc-version of dos box.

I got it to run with "CTRL", "/", etc. by switching to English keyboard layout via Mac OS preference panes -> language support. Now it works and I love it !

Thank you all for your hints and tipps!