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Jochen Schäfer

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Dosbox and Dosbox-X
« on: January 14, 2026, 04:46:09 pm »
I have built a new Dosbox package from the newest Dosbox source code.
I also built a package for Dosbox-X for OS/2! I couldn't test every feature, but most things should work.

You find both packages here: https://joschs-robotics.de/dosbox/dosbox.html.

Have fun.

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Re: Dosbox and Dosbox-X
« Reply #1 on: January 14, 2026, 08:23:18 pm »
Awesome, I will be trying it out tonight !!
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Re: Dosbox and Dosbox-X
« Reply #2 on: January 15, 2026, 08:50:08 am »
I have built a new Dosbox package from the newest Dosbox source code.
I also built a package for Dosbox-X for OS/2! I couldn't test every feature, but most things should work.

You find both packages here: https://joschs-robotics.de/dosbox/dosbox.html.

Have fun.

That's great news, Jochen!
I remember I gave a try at Dosbox-x but eventually had to give up because of too little spare time.
I'm trying to get back at my VM to complete and test some ports before releasing them.

Keep fingers crossed 8)

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Re: Dosbox and Dosbox-X
« Reply #3 on: February 09, 2026, 09:25:12 pm »
As a celebration to Dosbox by Jochen, I've created a tool with DrDialog that download DOSBox-X/2 (2026-02-10) and the free EA game Red Alert 1
It can use the version of DOSBox already installed.

Rename this updated version to CCRA.pat to CCRA.EXE and double click it to try it out.

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If you instead choose OS/2 DOS and have problems that OS/2 DOS stall... your system may stall as you try to run this DOS game as well.
Run DOS in full screen mode and use Alt + Home to switch to windowed mode.

Yes, the DOS setup application run after download, unpack, patch etc. to allow you to run it locally without CD or ISO image.
You can of course run against the ISO image as well, but must then mount it in OS/2 if you use it with OS/2 DOS and use "ASSIGN" or "SUBST", while DOSBox can mount ISO-files itself.
The patched _setup.exe can't detect your sound hardware, but do allow you to test the sound.
The suggested sound hardware work well with Dosbox and Dosbox-X/2 while it may freeze in OS/2 DOS if you don't have the hardware selected. Use Ctrl + Esc to escape back to the OS/2 Desktop to close manually then.
« Last Edit: February 11, 2026, 07:52:56 pm by Jan-Erik Lärka »

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Re: Dosbox and Dosbox-X
« Reply #4 on: February 10, 2026, 12:51:27 am »
Hi All

Silly question: How do I get full screen use for games in dosbox-x?

Currently trying to run any game results in the game appearing in the top left corner of the screen - dosbox-x is running full screen.
The same games run full screen in dosbox.
I am using the same [sdl] section settings that work for dosbox.

I can only guess there is a setting that I am not aware of in dosbox-x...


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Re: Dosbox and Dosbox-X
« Reply #5 on: February 10, 2026, 01:10:31 am »
Have you tried ALT-HOME?

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Re: Dosbox and Dosbox-X
« Reply #6 on: February 10, 2026, 04:21:50 am »
Hi Dave

Not sure what that is meant to do - but it doesn't whatever it is.

To clarify: dosbox-x runs full screen but any game is loaded into the top left corner of that screen rather than full screen.


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Re: Dosbox and Dosbox-X
« Reply #7 on: February 10, 2026, 06:52:22 am »
OK, I mis-understood. ALT-HOME may switch from window to full screen and back.

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Re: Dosbox and Dosbox-X
« Reply #8 on: February 10, 2026, 05:28:37 pm »
I dropped a new release, fixing the crash if a mount doesn't succeed.

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Re: Dosbox and Dosbox-X
« Reply #9 on: February 10, 2026, 06:23:56 pm »
Thanks Jochen.

Thanks Jan-Erik your software runs fine to get Red Alert, it is very interesting. I'm only missing the icon in PNG format since I use a "Dynamic Icons" template. (Check image)

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Re: Dosbox and Dosbox-X
« Reply #10 on: February 10, 2026, 07:09:39 pm »
Hello Jochen

Windows 98 runs, but I can not control the mouse.

I just switched dosbox-x.conf that comes on the package to connect to the .img.

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Re: Dosbox and Dosbox-X
« Reply #11 on: February 10, 2026, 10:17:54 pm »
Choose something appropriate for the  other files.
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Re: Dosbox and Dosbox-X
« Reply #12 on: February 11, 2026, 09:25:20 am »
Hello Jochen

Windows 98 runs, but I can not control the mouse.

I just switched dosbox-x.conf that comes on the package to connect to the .img.

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I will look into it. But I have to setup Win98 first ;-)

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Re: Dosbox and Dosbox-X
« Reply #13 on: February 12, 2026, 04:25:41 pm »
Sure, the image I'm using I got it from internet archive.
- https://archive.org/download/windows-98-in-dosbox-x
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Re: Dosbox and Dosbox-X
« Reply #14 on: February 12, 2026, 05:26:24 pm »
Sure, the image I'm using I got it from internet archive.
- https://archive.org/download/windows-98-in-dosbox-x
That was easy ;-)