Amazing indeed. Made me wish my French was a lot better.

Seems like there is a VDMSound guide in the works too...

Amazing work, indeed. 😎

All I wanted to do for DosBox frenchy community ... Well done 😁 !!!

Hi to everyone,

The VDMSound tutorial was uploaded this afternoon : I wish you a good reading. 😉
And now I have to finish the D-Fend tutorial. 😵

a nice pdf.
maybe we should include something like that with the installer.

I would like to translate it, but my english is not very good... so I can't do it myself. 🙁 In fact it would have been a good way to submit it to a large amount of people, including your team, to point its flaws and correct/improve them.

Anyway, as a user of DOSBox, I'm very honored that you appreciate my work. 😊

PS. Best regards to Ulf, because this story started with the french readme of DOSBox 0.58. 😉

PPS. Hello to my friend Victor who wrote the french language file.

Hi all,

happy new year !

Though I may not have plenty of time to do it, I volunteer for English translation. I am a native French speaker but I feel comfortable enough with English to give it a try.

Just let me know in this forum. If some other people are interested we might divide the document and submit a temporary draft to a native English speaker for farther improvement.

Best,
Tapx

If someone can give me a download link (since the one above doesn't appear to be working), I'll do some work on it. I need some French work, I've only been doing German recently.

Hi,

The correct link is http://clinique.jeuxvideos.free.fr/articles.php?lng=fr&pg=91

At this point I wrote three manuals, one using the CHM format and the two others using the PDF format.
1. Découvrir DOSBox avec D-Fend (CHM) / Discover DOSBox with D-Fend
2. Débuter avec DOSBox (PDF) / Start with DOSBox
3. Utilisation avancée de DOSBox (PDF) / Advanced usage of DOSBox
I hope titles are correctly translated into english.

I'm very honoured by your offer to help, I really appreciate it. 😊

Hi all,

I started to work on the beginners guide.
number 2. in Pseudopode's list.
I also registered on the forum so now if people want to contact me directly It is possible without posting in this topic.

I am now at page 7 of 55 so if some other people want to contribute to the english translation I suggest starting at page 20 or 25.

For the moment I am only doing raw text tranlsation. I suppose we can take care of the layout settings latter.

Best
Tapx
😁

I'd started that, too, within the past week or so (did up to ~ page 11 with layout), but my computer's currently ... in need of service, and I don't know if the hard drive with the work on is one of the things that's affected. If you want to keep on with that I'll take the advanced one instead once I'm up and running again, I'm easy.

I can at least suggest some title translations... ;D

2) DOSBox for Dummies
3) DOSBox for Advanced Dummies

Unfortunately, I'm way too busy with professional projects (not even mentioning the occasional retrogaming translations) to be of any help to Pseudopode these days. Though I can eventually contribute to the proof-reading process.

Good luck to the translators :)

Heh, I actually considered DOSBox for Dummies. I went with Getting Started with DOSBox and (I think) Advanced DOSBox in the end.

It looks like my computer's going to need to be completely rebuilt, anyhow, so it'll be a short while before I get back into it.

Thank you very much for your work and your efforts. I really appreciate it.

If necessary I could build a CHM file for each guide, including both english and french version.

PS. There will be soon a new guide, smaller than the existing ones which will contain only a few pages. It's called "Guide rapide", but I'm not sure how to translate it. Is "Quick guide" a good translation ?

How about "x minutes guide" (where x is number of minutes used to read it)?

Generally you'd call it a quickstart guide.

Hi ChaosFish,
It's not exactly a guide which is intended to be read in x minutes, it's more a guide which only gives the essential informations to start with DOSBox.
In fact it contains several "How to" :
. How to install DOSBox,
. How to mount a virtual hard drive,
. How to setup a french keyboard,
. How to mount a virtual CD-ROM drive (from a real CD-ROM drive, from a directory, from an image file),
. How to mount a virtual floppy drive (from a real floppy drive, from a directory, from an image file),
. How to switch from windowed mode to fullscreen mode,
. How to speed up/slow down emulation,
And a few informations about configuring DOS games.
I wrote this guide because some users don't like the other ones which are too big for them.
"Quickstart guide" seems to be a more suitable translation.

Hi Kaminari, good to see you here. 😉

By the way, I forgot to mention that these guides are not appropriate to Linux or Mac users.

Actually if you're doing specific instruction sets like that you might want to use something like quick reference instead. It really depends on just what you're including and how you're presenting it (whereby a quickstart guide is, logically, a quick guide to getting started, as opposed to the sort of thing that tends towards a FAQ-like format).

Ok, it seems that Quick reference is more appropriate.

PS. This guide is avaliable since this afternoon.