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DOSBox keyboard shortcuts
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First published at 10/8/2017 on https://defkey.com/dosbox-shortcuts

DOSBox is an emulator that emulates computer running DOS operating system.
It also emulates many of the IBM PC compatible graphics and sound cards.
Thus it can run original DOS programs and games, even under modern
operating systems which dropped support for the old environment.

DOSBox has 19 shortcuts and we have listed all of them below.



General
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Alt + Enter             Switch to full-screen (and back)
Alt + Pause             (ALT-F16 on OS X) Pause emulation
Ctrl + F1               Show the keymapper configuration screen
Ctrl + F4               Update cached information about mounted drives. Useful if you changed
something on a mounted drive outside of DOSBox. Also cycles through disk
images mounted using IMGMOUNT
Ctrl + F5               Save a screenshot (goes to capture folder)
Ctrl + Alt + F5         Start/Stop recording of AVI video. NOTE: You may well have some problems
with this, please see Recording Video in DOSBox documentation for more
information
Ctrl + F6               Start/Stop recording sound output to a wave file (goes to capture folder)
Ctrl + Alt + F7         Start/Stop recording of OPL commands
Ctrl + Alt + F8         Start/Stop the recording of raw MIDI commands
Ctrl + F7               Decrease frameskip
Ctrl + F8               Increase frameskip
Ctrl + F9               Kill (close) DOSBox
Ctrl + F10              Capture/Release the mouse (if you need to use the mouse within DOSBox)
Ctrl + F11              Decrease DOSBox cycles (slows down the emulation)
Ctrl + F12              Increase DOSBox cycles (speeds up the emulation)
Alt + F12               Unlock speed (turbo button)


Language keys
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When a keyboard layout is loaded:

Ctrl + Alt + F2         Switch between foreign layout and US layout
Left Alt + Right Shift  Activate dual layouts (for some keyboards, e.g. GK codepage 869 and RU
codepage 808)
Left Alt + Left Shift   Deactivate dual layouts

For OS X you have to use additionally + Command for the same result.

INS key is Fn + M on OS X

For Linux you have to use additionally + Win for the same result.


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