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|'''CTRL-F10'''||Capture/Release the mouse (if you need to use the mouse within DOSBox).
 
|'''CTRL-F10'''||Capture/Release the mouse (if you need to use the mouse within DOSBox).
 
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|'''CTRL-F11'''||Decrease DOSBox [[Configuration:CPU|cycles]] ([[Changing CPU cycles|slows down]] the emulation).
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|'''CTRL-F11'''||Decrease DOSBox [[Configuration:CPU|cycles]] ([[Performance#CPU Cycles (speed up/slow down)|slows down]] the emulation).
 
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|'''CTRL-F12'''||Increase DOSBox [[Configuration:CPU|cycles]] ([[Changing CPU cycles|speeds up]] the emulation).
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|'''ALT-F12'''||Unlock speed (turbo button).
 
|'''ALT-F12'''||Unlock speed (turbo button).

Revision as of 07:39, 27 October 2010

Note: These are the default keybindings. They can be changed using the keymapper.

ALT-ENTER Switch to full-screen (and back).
ALT-PAUSE 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 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 Decreases frameskip.
CTRL-F8 Increases 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).

These default bindings are also documented in the README file accompanying the software.

Language Keys

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 + [Applekey] for the same result For Linux you have to use additionally + [win] for the same result