Hi, the following configuration runs just about everything on my PC (1,2 Ghz Duron running Win98SE). It was created using the Boxer frontend with the newest version of DOSBox (0.62). Simply copy and paste into dosbox.conf (a plain text file you can create with notepad).
Depending on the speed of your PC, you can replace the scaler=advmame2x line with scaler=normal2x. Advmame2x is a filter that smooths 320×200 graphics out to look like 640×400, but (in the case of DOSBox) requires lots of processing power.
You’ll also note that it mounts drives D: and E: as CD-ROM drives. You may want to change that depending on your own system’s configuration.
Lastly, keep in mind that (in my experience) even on very powerful PC’s, DOSBox is incapable of displaying full screen, polygonal graphics, SVGA graphics, or games with full-screen moving 2D graphics (e.g. Ultima 7) at a good, playable speed. There are also some games with CD-ROM issues, e.g. Inherit the Earth which only seems to run 100% on PC’s with genuine MSDOS and MSCDEX installed (i.e. won’t work in FreeDOS either).
The config file starts here:
# Config file created by Boxer Version 0.61.6
[sdl]
fullscreen=false
fulldouble=false
fullfixed=false
output=surface
hwscale=1.00
autolock=true
sensitivity=100
waitonerror=true
[dosbox]
language=
machine=auto
memsize=8
[render]
frameskip=0
snapdir=C:\
aspect=false
scaler=advmame2x
[cpu]
core=normal
cycles=6000
cycleup=500
cycledown=20
[mixer]
nosound=false
rate=22050
blocksize=2048
wavedir=C:\
[midi]
mpu401=true
device=default
config=
[sblaster]
sblaster=true
base=220
irq=7
dma=1
sbrate=22050
adlib=true
adlibrate=22050
adlibmode=adlib
cms=false
[gus]
gus=false
[speaker]
pcspeaker=true
pcrate=22050
tandy=true
tandyrate=22050
disney=true
[dos]
xms=true
ems=true
[modem]
modem=false
[autoexec]
mount c c:\
mount d d:\ -t cdrom
mount e e:\ -t cdrom
c: