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...no I wasn't being ironic or funny. I really think that would be cool. I'm thinking of people who never used DOS but would still like to play the cool games of yester-year. You know, like our kids one day. (Personally, my kids are still to young but one day...)[/b]
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Okay that was my final impression, it's only that I didn't want to seem stupid going seriously for a joke. But my comment is that console games were programmed with full knowledge of the platform, while PCs were 99% compatible but each hardware setting along with ROM, DOS version, drivers, etc., created its own little unique enviroment for games, out of a unique combination of hardware and software manufacturers and products. And yet every DOS program had to guess what would it find to a very low level, unlike Windows now who takes most of that work onto itself providing a more standard enviroment for external programs. (I'm no computer expert so am I saying nonsense?)
If it's been made with console roms I guess it would surely had been made with DOS games as well if it were equally feasible. But of course it's a good idea, only hard to implemet it seems.
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Infact, cooler still would be a system that would wrap a DOS archive into a single XP compatible executable (and datafile) and take all the work away from newbies. Esentally all you'd have to do is double-click and play. Either that or make a DOSBox executable package that was a DOSBox executable set up to load and run a game that you just drop into the directory and go. Actually, that might be possible. I'd have to look into it.[/b]
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Hm, that doesn't look unlike one of Russ's macros or something of the like packed along with each game. We might be seeing something like that some day. By the way Russ, that's, er, cool, and, weird. Interesting.
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I can't say much about the frontends. Both are windows only.
Boxer was made for a much older version of DOSBox. So it misses a lot of settings compared to
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Yes I was only asking about the most popular front-end --actually the one dosbox.sourceforge.net links-- and the one I use. But if anybody knows about others for any platform let him feel free to inform us. Anyway I'm also Windows-only so... :P
So, what are those settings which Boxer misses and what real practical purposes do they serve? However given tha D-Fend causes unstability and other nasty stuff, if I were to expand from Boxer I think I'd go for plain DOSBox like most of you, I think I could easily hadle it if I just tried. It's only that I used Boxer the first time I used DOSBox, and I haven't needed nor bothered to learn more since then.