With that said the next DOSBox release will have some new features. Extra features take away development time from this and hinder future development of DOSBox. This has been stated thousands of times in these forums. The #1 goal is compatibility with DOS games. Personally, I prefer the Daum SVN version () because it has save states, Glide support and support for using MP3 files in place of the audio tracks on a CD image.
IMGMOUNT DOSBOX ARCHIVE
If I ever want to play it again, I just need to unpack the archive and it's ready to go. It can be copied to a USB drive, or easily packed into an archive. This allows me to make the game installation portable. I create a custom CONF file with whatever settings I want for that game, a menu to let me run different versions or the setup program, and then I call it with a BAT file. I create a directory for the game, then I make a DOSBox directory and a directory to act as the C drive.
IMGMOUNT DOSBOX INSTALL
I did install the official release of DOSBox at one point, but now I typically put a copy of DOSBox in each game's directory. While I would normally agree with you that it's best to have one program that can do everything, I sort of disagree in this case. I want to be able to play my entire game collection with the main version of DosBox. So if I need one feature to play one game, and another feature to play another game, then I find myself installing a dozen different versions of DosBox. Each one has very specific features that are not shared with other ones.
The problem with SVNs is that they are nothing more than mods. All I can do is beg, and hope that they eventually decide to add them. There's probably many more such features like this that absolutely should be added, but for some reason (one which I can't imagine) the official developers of DosBox have chosen not to add these fatures.
IMGMOUNT DOSBOX SERIAL
At least 3 of them that I can think of off the top of my head are:Ī disk swapping feature for the imgmount command (what this thread is about)Ī serial mouse option among the different modes for the serial port (currently dummy, disabled, modem, nullmodem, and directserial are the only ones available, so nothing yet for a serial mouse)Ī way to reboot the emulated PC without closing DosBox (an equivalent to ctrl+alt+delete, as well as a way to allow programs that call the reboot interrupt to trigger a reboot without crashing or forcing DosBox to close entirely) It would be really nice if the official developers of DosBox would take all the most important features of all the different modded versions of DosBox, and add them to the main branch (the version you get from the download link at the official DosBox website).
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