The project was first uploaded to SourceForge and released for beta testing on July 22, 2002. The two knew of solutions at the time, but they could not run the applications in windowed mode or scale the graphics. The development of DOSBox began around the launch of Windows 2000-a Windows NT system -when its creators, Dutch programmers Peter Veenstra and Sjoerd van der Berg, discovered that the operating system had dropped much of its support for DOS software. MS-DOS continued to receive support until the end of 2001, and all support for any DOS-based Windows operating system ended on July 11, 2006. Although Windows XP could emulate DOS, it could not run many of its applications, as those applications ran only in real mode to directly access the computer's hardware, and Windows XP's protected mode prevented such direct access for security reasons. A member of the series is Windows XP, which debuted on October 25, 2001, to become the first consumer-oriented version of Windows to not use DOS. Conversely, the Windows NT operating systems were not based on DOS. These versions of Windows could run DOS applications. Windows 3.0 and its updates were operating environments that ran on top of MS-DOS, and the Windows 9x series consisted of operating systems that were still based on MS-DOS. printconf is still pointing to the wrong area, but dosbox-x is indeed reading the file I saved from the GUI.Before Windows NT 3.0, consumer-oriented versions of Windows were based on MS-DOS. So if I want the config file to start being read on boot, I should try upgrading to the latest stable version?ĮDIT: Nevermind. Thanks again for the help.Īs for the thing and the file -printconf points to, it sounds like both have already been addressed. Selected 'Save' through the configuration menu's menu labelled 'Configuration' and it worked, just like you said. I think it could probably be helped by adding little underlines under the first characters (whether you can actually press alt+C to open up 'Configuration' or not), making the main body of the window white while the top part is gray, and most importantly, moving the 'Save' option next to 'Close', maybe labelled as 'Apply' for just an extra bit of familiarity. I know it's probably copying the look of Windows 3 or something there, but that's missing some major visibility cues. Never noticed the little menu at the top of the DosBox-X Configuration window, it was a huge help you brought that up.

Dosbox config file