Suggest ideas for things that should be completed or added to DosBox before the next official release!
1. Add links to the exact location of the DosBox file for each DosBox package on the main page when the next official release is out.
(This is to get rid of the "Help! I am confused by Sourceforge and I cannot download DosBox!" messages".
Testimonials or feedback section for those users who want to comment on the DosBox they just downloaded but don't register at the site.
Erm, is this an official thread? In that case, I would like a setting in the .conf file to hide the bloody annoying console window which keeps popping up whenever you launch dosbox.
No, leave the console be. The alternative is even worse as it leaves files behind in each folder you run DOSBox in!
@lwc: I think he meant that the window just isn't visible if you set it in the .conf
Bump.
Need to work on FAQ thread some more. Would be nice to get alot more FAQ questions in the DosBox readme i....or mabye split them off from the README and include a TXT FAQ file in the dosbox package.
Hmmm, a few thoughts:
* Have an Icon contest (much like the existing thread) to determine an official icon to bundle with dosbox.
* Include the speedup pictoral guide as a "READTHIS" file in the zip package. That way there is no excuses for people to come here and ask the same questions over and over.
* This is a controversial one: have a complete package deal that comes bundled with D-fend. Yes, I know thats technically bloat and many people won't want it....but for newbies and some users they aren't aware of what dfend does and don't know where to look.
* Have an Icon contest (much like the existing thread) to determine an official icon to bundle with dosbox.
Icon has been decided. It's in the latest CVS
* Include the speedup pictoral guide as a "READTHIS" file in the zip package. That way there is no excuses for people to come here and ask the same questions over and over.
Good idea, just don't expect it to work. I found that no matter how good an elaborate the documentation and FAQ are, you will ALWAYS get as much people asking the same questions on a new release. That's no excuse for not adding elaborate documentation, just a reminder for everyone to not geth their expectations too high 😀
As for bundling with a frontend, I don't like it and especially when there are other frontends to choose from. "Why use that and not this?" will follow.
Why not get someone who has a knowledge of GUI programming to write an official DOSBox frontend that can be optionally installed when installing DOSBox itself? Don't look at me to write it, as I don't know how to write any GUI programs under any environment.
Even though I don't need to use a frontend, as I already have plenty of experience with DOS, it would be a good idea to include an optional one for the users who didn't grow up with this wonderful old operating system.
wrote:Why not get someone who has a knowledge of GUI programming to write an official DOSBox frontend that can be optionally installed when installing DOSBox itself? Don't look at me to write it, as I don't know how to write any GUI programs under any environment.
Even though I don't need to use a frontend, as I already have plenty of experience with DOS, it would be a good idea to include an optional one for the users who didn't grow up with this wonderful old operating system.
Or.., make it clear in the installer/elsewhere that you should get a frontend (and explain briefly what a frontend is) if you don't know how to use DOS.
Or, as I have suggested countless times, one of you, yes, all you right above me, download Nullsoft Installer, read how to make an installer, and create a <D-Fend/any other frontend>+DosBox+<anything else you see as useful> integrated package. No programmers needed for that.
Get the sound effects working properly in Colonization so they don't produce white noise! Please for the love of god do this. It must be a DOSBox problem combined with a weird sound implementation for the game, but the sound effects really add to the game!!!
== Jez ==
please no game specific requests (IMHO). Everyone got his favourite game and wants it working...
wrote:Or, as I have suggested countless times, one of you, yes, all you right above me, download Nullsoft Installer, read how to make an installer, and create a <D-Fend/any other frontend>+DosBox+<anything else you see as useful> integrated package. No programmers needed for that.
I would, but nobody's actually going to download it so why bother 😜
wrote:Icon has been decided. It's in the latest CVS
Oh, I've been using ykhwong's build....I didn't realize you guys already found one. 😅
Yeah, I'm not sure games that haven't been working for awhile will be focused on much for the next release. We've mostly been worrying about games that have been broken since 0.63....and adding new features and testing those features. There have been alot of games fixed since 0.63 but considering that we are testing DosBox now for the next official ver, I doubt any real focus is going to be given towards fixing games that may possibly break compatibility elsewhere.
wrote:Yeah, I'm not sure games that haven't been working for awhile will be focused on much for the next release. We've mostly been worrying about games that have been broken since 0.63....and adding new features and testing those features. There have been alot of games fixed since 0.63 but considering that we are testing DosBox now for the next official ver, I doubt any real focus is going to be given towards fixing games that may possibly break compatibility elsewhere.
Practically every game I own and have installed works like a charm. That makes me happy. 😎
wrote:wrote:Or, as I have suggested countless times, one of you, yes, all you right above me, download Nullsoft Installer, read how to make an installer, and create a <D-Fend/any other frontend>+DosBox+<anything else you see as useful> integrated package. No programmers needed for that.
I would, but nobody's actually going to download it so why bother 😜
If you create a decent installer configuration file and upload it here, and maybe send it to the D-Fend author, and if you also create the actual installer once DOSBox 0.65 and an updated D-Fend are released, then I imagine that there's a place on the dosbox download page for your final product. Take a look at the "Wishlist" thread, there is a part which contains tons of suggestions for a user-friendly installer.
I wonder what QBix thinks about this.
Not in favour of it.
(never been)
Water flows down the stream
How to ask questions the smart way!
Would like to see:
- input emulation/processing that doesn't get starved when cycles are set high to take advantage of new scaler optimizations and partial screen updates
- PC speaker and OPL emulation revisited in the context of games that use them for digitized sound effects (examples of games that have issues: Wiz7, Silpheed)
