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"Shovelware" interfaces
Posted: January 25th, 2008, 3:46 pm
by leilei
Hi
I'm creating a personal DOS games "ready to run off cd" shovelware cd for fun, and perhaps for DOSBox's site.
Is there any Free, legal to use interfaces I could possibly use for DOS?
I was thinking magicdesk, but that's shareware.
VGA 640x480x16 preferred.
Re: "Shovelware" interfaces
Posted: January 25th, 2008, 11:20 pm
by DOSGuy
Actually, I was planning to convert the Classic DOS Games DVD so that all of the games on the site would be ready to run. I considered including FreeDOS, or creating a profile for each game and including a front-end for DOSBox. I could also write my own interface. Any of those solutions involves a lot of work to set-up, but it only has to be updated with each new game afterwards. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
Re: "Shovelware" interfaces
Posted: January 26th, 2008, 12:25 am
by leilei
My CD wouldn't be DOSbox exclusive as I want to play these on actual old systems.
For Windows one could get away with a HTML based interface similar to Ubuntu/Kubuntu's autorun that launches a self-contained Gecko renderer. We'd do the menus from there and have links to 'run directly' (for old computers) and 'run through DOSBox' (calls a .bat file with appropriate settings for game) or maybe even 'open the archive' for the ZIP files.