mr_bigmouth_502 wrote: First rule of VOGONS: You do not mention "abandonware" Second rule of VOGONS: You DO NOT mention "abandonware" Yes, now I got it 😀 In any case I was meaning the abandonware as the commercial one that became freeware.. and I ask sorry for this big misunderstanding, I allow all …

Dominus, I didn't want to be rude or whatever about anything.. When I usually introduce myself somewhere I like to assume that people won't think I'm a 18 years old kid asking "OMFG, WHERE CAN I DOWNLOAD THE GAMES FOR DOSBOX?!?!!111". If my answers seemed from a wounded man that's because everything …

Don't be pedantic, I'm not using the abandonware word to mean "a software that no one cares about so I think it's free and I reserve myself the right to do whatever I want with that". I'm talking about obsolete software that has been actually made free by their copyright holder so that they became …

Actually from what I see from source most of what is needed for a different filesystem seems to reside in dos/drives.h which defines the DriveManager (the one used to mount/unmount things?) and the various signatures for localDrive, fatDrive, cdromDrive, etcetera. These classes are then implemented …

First of all you should distinguish from good intents and bad intents. As many hobby development projects everything starts from a need or from an idea. My idea was to create a custom file system contained in a single file that could be used by DosBox just for the fun of writing one. So actually you …

I was wondering about trying to provide support for custom archive ready to be mounted and used. From what I can understand DosBox is already able to mount ISOs and (possibily?) ZIP files but what about something custom? I ask this because with a big library of abandonware you usually have many …