Saturday, 3 December 2022

Multiple monitors with DOSBox games (via DOSBox Staging)

 

In case you're not familiar, DOSBox Staging is designed to address the headaches caused by DOSBox's decrepit code, most notably (for me, anyway) its refusal to accept more than one monitor. This is obviously brilliant and good, but unfortunately GOG games are not set up to use DOSBox Staging. Thankfully, it's pretty easy to do yourself. This post is meant for Linux users only, but I'm sure a Windows user could figure out a way themselves, with a bit of tinkering. In my case, I'm using Linux Mint with the Flatpak version of DOSBox Staging, and the commands I show will reflect that. Adjust according to your own setup. With that said, we can get started.