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Automating a DosBox Windows Dos Application

  • February 27, 2025
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Hallo,

is it possible to interact with an Dos Application runnig in DosBox Window?

Robot should login to that application and interact with text interface as showed below:

There’s no mouse available, only keyboard actions, and the actions should be confirmed what is going on on the screen - eg. if we scroled to the third option on the menu, robot should be able to “scratch” which option is chosen before entering etc.

Any suggestions for making such automation possible?

greetings,

Michal

Best answer by Marc Mueller

Hi ​@MichalTurek,

have you tried with “Simulate keystrokes” action?

And a combination of OCR maybe works…🤔

 

Something like that should work…

 

 

Cheers

Marc

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  • February 27, 2025

Hi ​@MichalTurek,

have you tried with “Simulate keystrokes” action?

And a combination of OCR maybe works…🤔

 

Something like that should work…

 

 

Cheers

Marc

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  • February 27, 2025

Keystrokes work well. Don’t forget the App integration package. You can use that to scrape text from a Terminal or DOSBox window.

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Keystrokes work well. Don’t forget the App integration package. You can use that to scrape text from a Terminal or DOSBox window.

Hallo after a while,

App application doesn’t seem to work, but in that case the approach of combining functions:

  • OCR: Capture window (for scrapping texts from DOS window),
  • Simulate keystrokes (for input interaction),
  • IF: Image Recongnition-Image file is found in Window (comparing expecting Images [previously preserved] in current window) - for an aware interfere with dos graphics and user interface and confirming task states,

works reasonable well.

Thanks and greetings,

Michal

 

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