D-Fend Reloaded - DOSBOX Frontend

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D-Fend Reloaded - DOSBOX Frontend

#1 Post by abc »

D-Fend Reloaded is a graphical environment for DOSBox. DOSBox emulates a complete computer including the DOS commandline and allows to run nearly all old DOS based games on modern hardware with any of the newer Windows versions.

With DOSBox there is no need to worry about memory managers or free conventional RAM, but the setup of DOSBox is still a bit complicated. The configuration of DOSBox via textbased setup files might be difficult for beginners. D-Fend Reloaded may help and create these files for you. Additionally the D-Fend Reloaded installation package contains DOSBox (including all lanuage files currently available), so there is only one installation to be run and no need to link D-Fend Reloaded with DOSBox manually.

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You can also create portable installations by selecting "Custom installation" and then "Portable mode" in the installer.
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/dfendr ... -Setup.exe

PortableApps version of D-Fend Reloaded 1.3.1 zip package
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/dfendr ... le.paf.exe

D-Fend Reloaded 1.3.1 zip package
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/dfendr ... -1.3.1.zip

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Re: D-Fend Reloaded - DOSBOX Frontend

#2 Post by webfork »

Thanks abc ... looks great -- will hopefully test this out soon. I've posted about D-Fend, but for this version:
The development objective for D-Fend Reloaded was (besides 100% D-Fend compability) to make the program operation more simple with respect to DOSBox beginners. Simultaneously more features for administration and configuration became available.


For reference, other front-ends mentioned on forums before:

DosShell (still in development)
http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... =4&t=16355

WinLauncher (very old)
http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... .php?p=674

FoxyBox (very old)
http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... php?p=3697

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Re: D-Fend Reloaded - DOSBOX Frontend

#3 Post by abc »

Thanks for the info webfork

It's in the database, it needs more votes to go public: http://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=2246

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Re: D-Fend Reloaded - DOSBOX Frontend

#4 Post by freakazoid »

I started having a minor interest in DOSBox and was looking for frontends that were still in active development. Unfortunately, D-Fend Reloaded hasn't been updated in seven years.

I only found one DOSBox frontend still in development: AmpShell.

Website: https://ampshell.tuxfamily.org/
Github: https://github.com/maximilien-noal/AmpShell/

There's also a portable mode, but I haven't tested this frontend yet.
is it stealth? ;)

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