I do not want to stray off topic either, so let me close with this:
After starting to play around with DOSBox and VDMSound for the last month or so, what I really miss is a comprehensive database of how to install and configure these games for the best playing experience.
So I have set out on a quest of making such a database. At the bottom will be a MySQL database, an Apache web server, and then piles, and piles of PHP-enabled web pages and the odd Perl script.
I want to record every relevant detail of the game (name, version, year of release, standard, compilation, or deluxe version, programming house, publisher, ...). This information is then to be matched again run time environments (DOS, Windows, Linux kernel), emulators (Bochs, DOSBox version, VDMSound, GlideOS), and finally attached to installation how-to's, configuration how-to's, and perhaps downloadable configuration files for DOSBox, VDMSound + LaunchPad settings, etc).
I am going to concentrate on the database first. Using the dozen or so games I own, I hope to be able to capture a good set of variables and map them to appropriate tables in the database. Next will be a web-based search and report facility. Once the database structure has proven itself, I plan to add a simple web based update facility, allowing for a small group of testers to populate the database.
In all likelyhood, this will reveal shortcomings in the database and the variables needed to describe each game setup, so it will have to be revised => changes to search/report => changes to update facility.
When the changes have stabilised, and a nice interface is ready, I will annouce the database to the unexpecting world of VOGONS.
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