You should use the grab button (next to the 'main' and 'setup' fields) to obtain the mounted zip, and then press 'browse..' to select an executable inside the zipfile.

Please let me know if you need more info, regards,
Ronald

That did it, thanks. But it's not very intuitive, is it? The first button is Browse, and the second one Grab, so one's intuition is to browse to the zip and then browse inside the zip once it is located (which one can do in Windows XP, but apparently not in this particular program). Perhaps the buttons need to be reordered.

Any other recommendations for frontends that support zip mounting? Thanks.

And how do I add screenshots to this thing? It's not being very helpful.

And how do I set default options for an added profile, such as Audio frequencies and so on? It's a pain to have to set them every time. Thanks.

please read the readme for dosbox, it helps. Thanks

transitionality wrote:

Any other recommendations for frontends that support zip mounting? Thanks.

Yep, D.O.G. may be of help.

transitionality wrote:

And how do I add screenshots to this thing? It's not being very helpful.

Ctrl-F5

transitionality wrote:

And how do I set default options for an added profile, such as Audio frequencies and so on? It's a pain to have to set them every time.

Try creating a template and maybe set it as default. Another approach is to redefine all global options inside the dosbox.conf that is associated with your profiles, manually (by editing that file).

The differance between D.O.G. and DBGL on the part of mounting zips is that D.O.G. does this on its own and doesn't require DOSBox to support zip mounting.
As far as I know DBGL requires DOSBox to support Zip mounting.

D.O.G. also supports 7-zip for compression.

Erik.

Zip support doesn't work with the few games I tried. It seems that there is trouble saving configuration info into the write-mounted blank zip files that I specify (they remain zero-byte even after setup) and games that are unable to find setup configuration often fail to work. Is this a known issue, and what can be done about it?

This is with ykhwong's latest and DBGL.

transitionality wrote:

Zip support doesn't work with the few games I tried. It seems that there is trouble saving configuration info into the write-mounted blank zip files that I specify (they remain zero-byte even after setup) and games that are unable to find setup configuration often fail to work. Is this a known issue, and what can be done about it?

Configure the game and then zip it back up?

That defeats the point of the entire exercise. The point of zip mount support is that the zip files are either on read-only media, or for some other reason are preferable to maintain in original condition. My understanding of PhysFS is that it should work as described above, and yet it does not. What gives?

transitionality wrote:

Zip support doesn't work with the few games I tried. It seems that there is trouble saving configuration info into the write-mounted blank zip files that I specify (they remain zero-byte even after setup) and games that are unable to find setup configuration often fail to work. Is this a known issue, and what can be done about it?

Oh, I'm sorry but I believe it's my fault. I introduced a regression in DBGL since 0.60. The zip 'write' location should not be an archive but a directory. Please check to see if that works. I'll fix this problem in an upcoming DBGL release. Thanks for reporting the issue, transitionality!

The file selection dialog insists on selecting a (7)zip file and will not take a directory. However, if you type a path to a directory into the path box, it will accept it. It seems to work fine this way, and game config etc. is saved and used successfully, so thanks.

On another note, is there a way to associate a screenshot acquired from another source (not captured during gameplay) with a game entry on DBGL? CTRL-F5 doesn't work for this. Thanks.