CBoxRun is a Windows-based front end for DOSBox that is designed to be as easy to use as possible while including some features that more advanced users will appreciate. Here's a partial list of what's new in version 0.5: 1. Startup time has been reduced. (The program may still be a bit slow on the …

Hi Yushatak, Thanks for your comments - I'm glad you like the look & feel of the program. I presume CBoxRun maintains a .conf file for each entry - is it possible for it to create a shortcut file pointing to it with the command argument "-conf"? If not, this would widen your audience a bit (to me, …

The most usual scenario is that you need to mount a folder in your harddrive as a harddrive C: That's because although most games will work if you use the game folder as C:\, as many frontends do, some of these games check the path and they won't start from C:\. Some later DOS games go as far as …

Hi Neville, Thanks for the feedback. A few responses: The loading time of the program is a tad slow. It also seems to freeze the first time you use the profile assistant, while loading the first page. It's fine after that. It's a bit slower on the first load because it has to download and format the …

Thanks for letting me know. My dev environment is a Windows 7 x64 machine too. I didn't realize that I had a reference to a library that isn't included in the standard .NET distribution - it has now been removed. I've posted an update here: http://www.filedropper.com/cboxrun_2 If you can test it and …

Thanks hunterz. That's an interesting idea and shouldn't be hard to do. I store all custom configs in a single directory, so it wouldn't be difficult to allow a user to multi-select them and make a particular set of changes to config settings. Would that be helpful? The app's written in VB.NET using …

CBoxRun is now available for download here: http://cboxrun.wordpress.com

Hi all, I'm developing a new DOSBox front end called CBoxRun, and I would like to find about 20 people that could provide initial bug testing and user feedback before I release it more widely. CBoxRun is a freeware .NET-based front end for Windows that's meant to be very friendly for DOSBox newbies. …