Newbie questions: DOSBox and moving around on terminal
 

Hello:

I'm trying to run an old DOS game on DOSBox.

I've copied the game on a folder on the device and want to mount it as C drive on DOSBox.

/home/user/MyDocs/.documents/PG/

I've found the DOSBox config file, but don't know what I must write there to run that properly.

I hope somebody could help me on this.

Thank you

Re: Newbie questions: DOSBox and moving around on terminal
 

You can mount directories in dosbox with mount command in dosbox command line. For example
mount c /home/user/MyDocs/dosbox
would map given folder as drive C:. You can put commands that are run on startup to the dosbox's config file in section [autoexec]. You can put the mount command in that section and have your folder mounted automatically. You can also put c: to the next line so you would be located at the root of c-drive on startup.

Re: Newbie questions: DOSBox and moving around on terminal
 

My problem lays now more on my ability (or lack of) to use vi or even vim. Is there any easier text editor available?.

Re: Newbie questions: DOSBox and moving around on terminal
 

There's PyGTKEditor which is graphical not xterm.

Re: Newbie questions: DOSBox and moving around on terminal
 

Hi.

I cannot not use a forward slash '/' on the keyboard in dosbox, nor the colon come to that ':'

It will not let me paste either.

I have used 'vi' in xterm, pasted the autoexec command, but cannot save the file.

'w' or 'wq' does not seem to work.

Any ideas?

:EDIT:

:wq does work however in command mode.

I am an idiot.

However, even though I have pasted and saved the following

[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.
mount c /data/dosbox
c:

dosbox still fires up with z: as its default dir.

Dammit!

Re: Newbie questions: DOSBox and moving around on terminal
 

Looks like this for me:
(and works)

Nokia-N900-42-11:/home/user/apps# ls -la
drwx------ 2 user users 4096 Dec 14 16:32 .
drwxr-xr-x 49 user users 4096 Dec 15 12:59 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 user users 10148 Dec 14 22:36 DOSBox 0.73 Preferences.txt

Re: Newbie questions: DOSBox and moving around on terminal
 

Hmmm.

I get this:

Nokia-N900-42-11:/home/user/apps# ls -la
drwx------ 2 user users 4096 Dec 15 13:39 .
-rw-r--r-- 1 user users 10109 Dec 13 11:16 DOSBox 0.73 Preferences.txt

should my next command be:

Nokia-N900-42-11:/home/user/apps# vi DOSBox 0.73 Preferences.txt

is your file empty when you paste the autoexec?

ta.

Re: Newbie questions: DOSBox and moving around on terminal
 

no, file is not empty, it's already configured, this is the end of the file.

and yeah I edited it using vi.

Re: Newbie questions: DOSBox and moving around on terminal
 

Hmm.

I don't know whats happening.

My config file must be screwed.

Re: Newbie questions: DOSBox and moving around on terminal
 

Wow. I think getting dosbox working is the best emulator yet on my n900. Just tried out the old Prince of Persia and it worked great.

Re: Newbie questions: DOSBox and moving around on terminal
 

Hmm.

I think I have isolated what is up.

As the file has spaces, xterm seems to be trying to create and open 3 different files,

'DOSbox', '0.73', and 'Preferences.txt'

As three were created in that dir, as well as the original file.

What command are people using to open and edit the file?

Re: Newbie questions: DOSBox and moving around on terminal
 

Try vi "DOSbox 0.73 Preferences.txt" with quotes, or put a backslash before each space, both ways should work.

Re: Newbie questions: DOSBox and moving around on terminal
 

Just use tab to auto-complete the file name.
Defaultly, bash uses backslashes to escape control characters like space.
Single or double quotes also help to fight the problem.

Re: Newbie questions: DOSBox and moving around on terminal
 

I have a brilliant way to get around...

I use good old Norton Commander :cool:

Re: Newbie questions: DOSBox and moving around on terminal
 

Hi
I'm not really good at this stuff i just got my n900. I still don't get how to run any game on dosbox? I have my game fallout under a folder called games. Can anyone help me out here?

thanks