I'm currently looking to make it 4th way, however there are still some issues at hand. Firstly we must somehow figure out the latest DOSBox version before downloading anything, I bet 0.65 isn't going to be last one. Secondly we must know where to download from, DOSBox is hosted on sourceforge and they have multiple mirror servers to download from. I'll see what I can about it, NSIS have lots of tiny plug-ins just for anything, there is support for mirror downloads too but figuring out what filename is going to be a little tricky. Anyway I'm digging NSIS wiki and asking people on NSIS forum, they're good fellas and helped me a lot before, together we'll figure out how to do it.
A. J. Raffles, well yes, you know what to add into configuration file, right? But what about those who don't? Will they likely spend another hour reading DOSBox wiki and trying to figure out what to do? Likely not. Installer is expected to do almost everything automaticly with a few promts users should handle by themselves, otherwise it's no practical use.
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