DOSBox is an emulator for older x86 systems. Latest update: Nov. 9, 2010.
The Pandora can emulate "about 5000 cycles in DosBox, which is roughly a 386/33Mhz x86 PC.
2. Open up dboxfe, the DOSBox GUI that comes with the download.
7. To quit DOSBox, close your game (in most games, you press the "Esc" key), then type in exit.
In order to use the colon symbol, you have to press shift (left shoulder button) + Fn + ";". This also goes for the underscore symbol.
By default, DOSBox on the Pandora just assigns keys to their regular keyboard positions. This makes playing games very awkward unless you remap them to the action buttons.
The simplest way to do this is to go to the /media/[your SD card]/pandora/appdata/dosbox/.dboxfe directory and edit the mapper.txt file that you'll find there (if you can't see it, press CTRL and the "H" key to view hidden files).
That should be comfortable, since most DOS games use Space, Alt, Ctrl or Shift for their action buttons. Enter is also used (usually to bring up a menu), but it's already in a comfortable spot on the Pandora.
You can also re-assign keys by using the keymapper in dboxfe. However, for mysterious reasons, the method doesn't work for some people ().
1. Open dboxfe, select your profile, press "start".
3. A screen will pop up. Use the touchscreen to select keys. The bottom part of the screen is below the taskbar on the Pandora, so you'll need to press Shift+leftclick to move the window around. The easiest way is to hold the left shoulder button (which is "Shift", by default) while moving the window with the stylus.
4. "Ctrl", "Alt", "Shift" and "Space" are used as the action keys by most DOS games. By default, A/B/X/Y are mapped to home/end/pg up/pg down. Remove the mappings for those keys (select them in the keymapper window, and press "del" for each in turn), and then map "Ctrl", "Alt", "Shift" and "Space" to A/B/X/Y.
In Jazz Jackrabbit CD, the character will always walk to the left. Prometheus says: "Whilst I do not know what causes it, I now know that trying to load Jazz from a folder that was set up on another machine (in this case, my main computer, which runs Xubuntu) seems to result in the problem with Jazz automatically walking to the left. Just now, I re-copied the files afresh (which I described on the other forum, previously), and, here's the important bit: I ran the setup program on the Pandora. This seems to have solved the issue for me, although I don't know exactly why that would be."
Note that activating the checkbox of "dboxFE -> System -> Render -> aspect" will enable the correct aspect ratio (4:3) for most games but it will also render your nub input and touch screen unusable . Fix still needed.
This page was last edited on 8 March 2015, at 20:18.