Hi Harry,Sure. I am glad to answer your questions.1. Of course you can specify any config file you like with the -conf command-line option. For example, "dosbox-x -conf myconfig.txt" will specify "myconfig.txt" as your config file.2. You can either specify a different directory just for the config file or a different working directory for DOSBox-X (and in such case the config file and so on will be loaded from this specified directory). For example: "dosbox-x -conf c:/dos/myconfig.txt" will load the config file c:/dos/myconfig.txt. Another example: "dosbox-x -defaultdir c:/test" will set c:/test as the DOSBox-X working directory, so that config file (and other things) will be loaded from this directory.3. You can change many config options on the fly via the CONFIG command, e.g. "CONFIG -SET fullscreen=true". But you cannot load a completely different config file without restarting DOSBox-X.4. Whatever appears in the text field will be saved as the config file. Clinking one of the three buttons (e.g. "Use primary config file?" simply changes the content of the text fileld automatically according to the button you clicked. When you click the "Save" button DOSBox-X will actually save the configuration to the config file as appears in the text filed.5. Yes. The current configuration will be saved.6. DOSBox-X has a lot of config options, but they either belong to "common" or "advanced" config options. If you don't click "save all config options" then only the common config options (and any modified advanced ones) will be saved to the config file. Compare the files dosbox-x.reference.conf and dosbox-x.refernece.full.conf to see the differences between a config file with common options and a config file with all config options. The former one is about 57KB and the latter one is about 194KB. You see the size difference between them.7. DOSBox-X's Windows installer clearly offers the option to save all previous settings while upgrading, but I wonder which option did you select during installation? "Yes", "No", or "Cancel"? As described in the installer it is recommended to select "Yes" to automatically upgrade the config file while automatically keeping all previous settings. But did you select "No" instead? If you selected "No", then dosbox-x.conf will be reset to the default one and your previous config file will be renamed to "dosbox-x.conf.old" without changes. If you selected "Cancel", then your dosbox-x.conf will be kept as is without any changes or upgrading. The Windows installer will never kill your previous setting no matter which option you had chosen, but your setting will be kept in different ways according to which selection you had made.Hope this helps.Sincerely,WengierOn Saturday, March 6, 2021, 01:36:13 a.m. EST, Harry Binswanger <hb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Wengier,Congratulations on .83.11!Would you be kind enough to answer the questions that would open the door for me?1. Can I change the name of the config file used? Ending it in a 4-letter extension makes things difficult for me.2. Can I specify somewhere the location of the config file being used? Or does it have to be in a /dosbox-x subdirectory?3. Can I load a new config file from the command line in a running instance of dosbox-x/XyWrite? If so, how?4. I see in the menu, under Main/Configuration tool there is a save option, but I get confused by the different options. For instance, there is a checkbox for: "Save all config options to the configuration file"--which configuration file? The one I typed into the text field? The one with the button "Use primary config file?" or one of the other two (portable and user)? And what is a "user config file"? When is it put in effect?5. I assume that it saves the current state to that file, is that correct?6. What does the checkbox mean by "all config options"? As opposed to some? I don't get it.7. Each new release kills the settings I've established, over hours, in the previous releases (even though it's not supposed to when I tell the installer not to do that).Thanks,HarryOn Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 12:21 AM Wengier W <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Hi all,
The latest version of DOSBox-X (0.83.11) is now officially released. Being a cross-platform DOS emulator, as usual there are quite a few improvements in this new release compared with the previous version 0.83.10, such as greatly improved cross-platform clipboard features, new DOS commands (CHCP, COLOR, PUSHD, POPD, REPLACE), new BIOS Setup Utility and BIOS screen improvements, new functions for saving states automatically, improved launching Windows applications, file/record-locking for Linux and macOS systems, along with many usability improvements such as
scalable Configuration Tool windows, breaking from long outputs from DOS shell commands, allowing to change output options dynamically from the command-line, and many more. You can find the DOSBox-X 0.83.11 release notes here:https://dosbox-x.com/release-0.83.11.html
Windows installer and Linux Flatpak package for DOSBox-X 0.83.11 are officially available to ease the installation, in addition to other packages including portable packages for Windows, macOS and DOS. You will find the official downloads for them from the DOSBox-X homepage:You can also download a Windows portable version of DOSBox-X 0.83.11 from:
http://cndos.fam.cx/dosware/dosbox-x-update.zip
It has the TrueType font output, clipboard device (CLIP$) and the dynamic_x86 CPU core set by default which are more optimized for XyWrite.Thanks a lot for your support!