My first post here, so first of all I want to express my thanks to the DOSBox devs. It is simply a great tool, actually the preferred way to play MOO2 multiplayer games in our community. Before DOSBox 0.65 implemented IXP support we used to play via Kali to simulate Network environment for our DOS game. But since 0.65 made MOO2 online games available on 2k, Linux and MAC; since it generally increased the stability of our games and since it is simply so pretty convenient to play in a box...it pretty fast replaced Kali.

There is just a few things I miss from Kali. Most importantly, Kali implemented some kind of check sum mechanism to assure the players use an identical exe file. Is it possible to add a similar feature to DOSBox? Maybe these check sums could be displayed in the DOSBox Status Window?

Furthermore it would be nice to see the exact command line of the host in that window. Unfortunately, the host can load seeded maps to gain an advantage in MOO2 via the command line. There are (IMO unjustified) accusations that some player abuse these option. It would be nice if DOSBox could include an option that the host can present his command line in the DOSBox Status Window of the other connected players. Such a feature would immediately stop these accusations.

I hope these both proposals are not too difficult to implement.

Thanks for reading.