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alinebee / Boxer

The DOS game emulator that's fit for your Mac.
http://boxerapp.com/
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TheDraw does not display properly #65

Closed granitepenguin closed 7 years ago

granitepenguin commented 7 years ago

Sorry, not quite sure what else to call this. It looks like some kind of ANSI.SYS weirdness, but running The Draw in stock DOSBox 0.74 displays as expected, while it does not look quite right in Boxer

Stock: screen shot 2016-12-23 at 17 17 46

Boxer: screen shot 2016-12-23 at 17 18 24

Any ideas what settings to tweak to fix the Boxer display?

alinebee commented 7 years ago

Hi Carl, The problem here is that Boxer uses a different character set than DOSBox by default: it chooses one based on your current OSX keyboard layout. This can cause odd character choices in text-mode games.

You can force Boxer to use the DOSBox-default character set by doing the following:

  1. Right-click on the game in Finder and choose “Show package contents”
  2. Double-click the DOSBox Preferences.conf file to open it in TextEdit
  3. Paste the following lines at the top of the file: 
    [dos]
keyboardlayout=none

Merry Christmas!

granitepenguin commented 7 years ago

Worked great, thanks!

Merry Christmas to you, too. :-)