Lately I've been doing mini posts about problems that I stuck on a daily basis. I have some of them pretty dense that I don't finish, I hope to get the time and publish them to get rid of my backlog.
Today I come to solve the famous *DOSBox* problem with the key mapping in *macOS*.
The cover photo comes to mind, because *Dungeon Crawlers* players like *Eye Of The Beholder* (Did I tell you that is my favorite game?), we played with the number pad and the keys 7 and 9 made the character/group spin. Few are the keyboards that come with the numeric keypad, so you have to remap and the best thing is to assign new keys, for example *WSAD* to move and *QE* to rotate. In *Windows/Linux* you press inside *DOSBox CTRL+F1* so that a layout with the keys appears on the screen where you can exchange them as you like.
It's supposed to be the same in *macOS*, but **there is a bug that prevents using this key combination**. The solution has been to use a fork called [DOSBox-X](https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x) that can run on any operating system (even *Raspberry Pi*!). You will have at your disposal the options to remapping.
By the way, in order to change the settings to this application, you will have to create/rename/move in your user's root directory, the *dosbox.conf* file that you can find if you have *DOSBox* installed, in *~/Library/Preferences/DOSBox 0.74 Preferences* (or the version you have installed).
Anyway, I leave you my mapping file for *WSAD and QE* if you are going to play some old school *RPG* and my **dosbox.conf optimized** (with spanish keyboard, you can change it anyway).
Link: [misapuntesde.com > mapper-0.74-3-1.map](https://misapuntesde.com/res/mapper-0.74-3-1.map)
Link: [misapuntesde.com > dosbox.conf](https://misapuntesde.com/res/dosbox.conf)
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