TheOvermatt: Hey folks, I'm trying to remap the keys, but every time I try to run CONFIG.EXE I get a "This app can't run on your PC" message (I'm on Windows 10). Any way around this or am I SOL?
You can run CONFIG.EXE, but only from within DOSBox (see screenshot). It's an old DOS executable which natively doesn't run under newer Windows anymore (like the whole game).
To use the DOSBox that comes with the game, open the file dosboxAB_single.conf in the game's installation folder with any text editor and replace the last line
exit with
#exit and save the file. The "#" prevents the "exit" command from being executed after you quit Alien Breed by pressing F1.
Now open the preferences of the game's desktop shortcut (right-click => Preferences) and edit the target field:
Delete "-c exit" at the end of the line, because this also closes DOSBox after quitting the game.
Now, when you quit the game, you'll end at the DOSBox command prompt instead of closing it completely. Here you can type
config and hit Enter to start CONFIG.EXE.
To quit DOSBox simply type
exit and hit Enter (or press Alt-Tab to get out and close the window like every common application window).
