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First post, by Daleeburg

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I have a simple question How do you install patches? i am trying to install the printer imulation one so that is gives me a png when i hit print in my dos programs
plz help

Reply 1 of 2, by mirekluza

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All patches here are the patches for source code. So you must be able to compile your own version of DOSBOX (some minimum programming knowledge is good).
I guess this is not your case, so try to find a binary. As for printer patch: it is not updated, so it would not compile with the current code anyway... But there are several older binaries in the thread which discusses it...

Mirek

Reply 2 of 2, by HunterZ

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Patches must be applied to the source code, which then has to be compiled by a C/C++ compiler into a new dosbox.exe. If you're not a C/C++ programmer, then you're probably best off trying to find (or asking someone to build) a custom dosbox.exe with that patch. It's possible that one already exists - there is a list of CVS builds in the development forum.