DOSBox keyboard shortcuts 

DOSBox  

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Alt + ⤶ Enter

Switch to full-screen (and back)

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Alt + Pause

(ALT-F16 on OS X) Pause emulation

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Ctrl + F1

Show the keymapper configuration screen

-3
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

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Ctrl + F5

Save a screenshot (goes to capture folder)

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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

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Ctrl + F6

Start/Stop recording sound output to a wave file (goes to capture folder)

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Ctrl + Alt + F7

Start/Stop recording of OPL commands

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Ctrl + Alt + F8

Start/Stop the recording of raw MIDI commands

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Ctrl + F7

Decrease frameskip

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Ctrl + F8

Increase frameskip

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Ctrl + F9

Kill (close) DOSBox

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Ctrl + F10

Capture/Release the mouse (if you need to use the mouse within DOSBox)

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Ctrl + F11

Decrease DOSBox cycles (slows down the emulation)

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Ctrl + F12

Increase DOSBox cycles (speeds up the emulation)

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Alt + F12

Unlock speed (turbo button)

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When a keyboard layout is loaded

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Ctrl + Alt + F2

Switch between foreign layout and US layout

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Left Alt + ↑   Right Shift

Activate dual layouts (for some keyboards, e.g. GK codepage 869 and RU codepage 808)

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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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Program name: DOSBox DOSBox (General)

Web page: dosbox.com

Last update: 2020/01/26 7:20 UTC

How easy to press shortcuts: 73%

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Shortcut count: 19

Platform detected: Windows or Linux

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