Re: Wrinkles with the Edward-Distro of DOSBox-x

[Bill Troop <billtroop@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 12/30/2021 03:43 AM, you wrote:

> This app comes with absolutely
> no support, but its download page has useful information that might be
> worth looking at.

1. That page is indeed helpful in that it suggests creating an
autoexec.bat file for example to execute some mount commands which, by
the way, seem to require a colon after the drive letter although the
dosbox-x.conf file seems not to require the colon. 

2. It would be helpful to state there, up front, what you can only find
out by time-intensive tinkering with the app's contents: that, within the
app's contents, the file you ought to edit to make configuration changes,
is
"appsettings.conf"
rather than the hitherto universally assumed dosbox-x.conf. I won't ask
why it has been thought necessary to introduce this fundamental but
undocumented wrinkle. The comment section in "appsettings.conf"
is informative. On the other hand, it mentions a .PROF file that you can
edit but I was unable to find a .PROF file anywhere on my system.

3. The settings you can alter in autoexec.bat do not include one I think
should be obligatory in all DOSBox-x installs that are intended for
applications: 
synchronize time=true. 
This must be made in appsettings.conf. 

4. BUT, although I believe I now have that last setting in effect, it is
not working, that is, if the computer is suspended for four hours, DOSBox
will still report the time as being four hours earlier.

5. Now, what would happen if I copied appsettings.conf and renamed it
dosbox-x.conf and ran it along with the later release I was toying with
at first? 

6. Also I am afraid I have lost Ed's shortcut keys which are not
compatible with my method (whatever that is) of getting Mac-CMD to =
Win/DOS-CTRL. 

7. Looking back over the correspondence of the past few days, there seems
to be some confusion as to whether Control is assigned to Mod1 or Mod3
or, as has sometimes seemed possible to me, both?