Hello, I recently purchased a couple of old games, privateer and master of Orion. I am trying to figure out how to use dosbox with windows 8.1. Specifically, how do I tab in and out of the game and not have the window shrink? Every time I tab out, I can't seem to get it back to full screen or at least make the game window bigger. Additionally , if I click on the game window with my mouse, then the cursor becomes stuck in the window and I have to switch between windowed and desktop modes to get it unstuck.

Please help :)

Thanks

Have you tried Alt+Enter to make it full-screen?

Yes, as genkicolleen said you can use Alt+Enter to switch the game back to fullscreen mode.

You can manually capture/release the mouse with Ctrl+F10. If you don't want the mouse to be automatically captured upon switching focus to the DOSBox window you can edit the game's DOSBox configuration file and change autolock=true to autolock=false

Borrowing your thread to ask a DOSbox question.

Is there anyway to exit out of dosbox when you exit out of a game via the config file?

My dosbox games throws me back to the dos prompt in dosbox and to exit I have to type exit. I would rather have this in the conf file, but if I type that in underneath my mount commands when the game opens it just exits.

Is there anyway to make it wait for the game to exit before running the exit command?

I'll have to try that. I don't have the launch command in the config file. I have the launch command in the target field of the shortcut I run:
C:\DOSbox\DOSBox.exe -conf "c:\DOSbox\AOR.conf" "C:\DOSBox\Games\AgeofRifles\Rifles.exe"

Then try adding -exit at the end of that command line, that should work as well. You can have either both in the config's autorun, or both on the command line. Since the commandline launch is run after the config's autorun, your "exit" after the mount commands ran before it even tried to launch Rifles.exe.

EDIT: Assuming you mount C:\DOSBox\Games\AgeofRifles as DOSBox's C:, the command in autorun would be C:\Rifles.exe

Ah, that worked...Thanks.

Above changed to:
C:\DOSbox\DOSBox.exe -conf "c:\DOSbox\AOR.conf" "C:\DOSBox\Games\AgeofRifles\Rifles.exe" -exit