How to use Norton's Commander in DosBox to play games

Step 6 Useful Key Commands

So now that you've got everything all downloaded and ready to play all the games from yesteryear, you've found that some games are too fast, too slow, or that you'd much prefer playing in full screen mode.  I can help with that, too.  The following is a list of commands that can help make the game-playing experience better.

Alt+Enter = Full Screen/Windowed Mode
Alt+Pause = Pause
Ctrl+F5 = Screenshot as .png
Ctrl+F7 = Decrease Frameskip
Ctrl+F8 = Increase Frameskip
Ctrl+F9 = Kill DosBox
Ctrl+F10 = Lock/Unlock the mouse to DosBox
Ctrl+F11 = Decrease Cycles (Slows down emulation)
Ctrl+F12 = Increase Cycles (Speeds up emulation)

Alternatively, If you want all of your games to run in Full Screen mode, you can edit the conf file again and find the option fullscreen and change it from false to true.

One final tip is that you can add the word "exit" (without the quotation marks) to the end of the mount under "nc."  By doing so, when you press F10 to exit NC, DosBox closes automatically to your desktop. This step is not necessary, but does save a little time and hair-pulling trying to remember the Ctrl+F10 command to access your mouse.

Now that you have everything you need, go forth and prosper.