Notices

Right I managed to get dos up and running this morning before work WOOT! There really should be a nice easy list of setup instructions available, I assume that most people havent given something like this out due to noobs formating their phones but still is a trek fro the likes of me as I kinda know wats wat... So here is my setup instructions

I first downloaded the app by following these instructions, basically the user needs to enable test-extras, by adding a new catalog. If you cant do this then it's best that dosbox is left well alone!

http://maemocentral.com/2009/12/29/h...ith-one-click/

Thanks for the link there Yorg.

Once you have downloaded dosbox and installed you will no doubt like myself have the problem of not being able to use the ":" this one char makes life a living hell as you can easily mount the home folder but cant then get access to it also "\" would be ultro usefull. Thanks therfore goes to javispedro for giving us the rover.sys file. Just pop this file into the MyDocs folder and bosh ur done, leading to the next problem how to get it in there.

What I did was use the xterm and a few command lines I foiund on various other posts to copy the files to the MyDocs folder, so once in xterm it's

cd /home/user/.dosbox

This is what the folder is called on my phone, once in this folder use ls to chack and make sure the dosbox config file is located within by typing "ls" at the prompt the linux equavalent to dir

Now we need to copy the file to the MyDocs folder so we can alter it, again I searched the net and found the "cp" command is used for copying so the full command looks like this (please remember to be in the .dosbox folder as this command assumes this, also make note of th upper case MyDocs as is case sensative)

cp dosbox-0.73.conf /home/user/MyDocs

if you were not in the dosbox folder use

cp /home/user/.dosbox/dosbox-0.73.conf /home/user/MyDocs

Now we have the config file ready for editing in the MyDocs folder, one could now use file manager to check to make sure the file is there, I then downloaded leafpad and used this to edit the conf file it's REALLY easy to use, so just open the file, move down to the bottom and add the line

mount c /home/user/MyDocs
c:

This will mount your Mydocs folder as c and then change to c. at his point you should be home and dry, using the command I provided to copy the config file to MyDocs you should be able to work out how to copy it back to the .dosbox folder... If not then please leave Dosbox alone! all that needs doing is downloading the rover.sys file mentioned earlier and placing this into the MyDocs folder and you should then be able to run the keyb rover.sys us

YAY! Dos with all the keys... well most of the keys

Hopefully I havent left anything out, a word of warning though, If you cant do any of these steps then I think it's best you leave dosbox alone. Please be carefull so as not to ruin THE best phone out there!

javispedro, I have some suggestions for keymappings, even though i have not solution to the F11 and F12 problem.
FN + z = :
FN + Backspace = ESC
Currently FN + Backspace makes an upward arrow like symbol, which i've never seen before and doubt anyone would need more than ESC.
Also, I havent gotten any games currently that requires F1-F10, so I havent figured how they are mapped. Can you enlighten me?

And in the end, thanks for the rover.sys

You guys made a great job porting dosbox to maemo, but most of the games are still too slow. Are you working on an update that can boost the speed? i'm sure that would be much appreciated..

Hi i want to use dosbox to play some old games. everything works but how can i make a right mouse click? did'nt find infos about that... is this already possible or is there no way to make a right click right now?

Can nobody help me how to use right mouse button in dosbox? Does nobody need it?

i dont get it! i have installed dos box. but when i typ cd /usr/bin/dosbox [enter] i get invalid map. its just not there.

when i press ls [enter]

i cant go furtherback then osso_calculator_engine

there are no files/dirs with a D???

Its not in /opt

i cant find the freaking app!!!

its on the menu... or on /usr/games

I dont understand i just ran the find command. and it tells me its on the /usr/bin/dosbox

but when i cd to it its tells cannot cd to /usr/bin/dosbox

Is it linked or protected or something? im on root acces what else do i need to do?

What are you trying to do? The executable is /usr/bin/dosbox.

- If you want to run it, please use the usual device menu!
- If you want to run the mapper, type "/usr/bin/dosbox -startmapper" in terminal, without root!

Sorry but i have to ask again:
How does a rightclick work? Still searching for an answer and still have not found anything about it... slowly going crazy and can't sleep anymore...