DOS ain't dead

DOSBox-X 0.83.14 is now officially released! Designing to be a cross-platform and complete DOS emulation package, it is the goal of DOSBox-X to cover essentially everything in the DOS scene, including DOS games, DOS shell, DOS applications, Windows 3.x/9x, PC-98, and more, and also to implement accurate emulation as possible.

Not only DOSBox-X wants to run existing DOS programs, it also intends to help with new DOS developments and encourage developments of new DOS software. You can find more information about this in the following page:

https://dosbox-x.com/newdosdevelopment.html

DOSBox-X provides official DOS versions in addition to versions for other platforms (Windows, Linux, and macOS). You can download the latest DOSBox-X 0.83.14 packages for all supported platforms from the DOSBox-X project homepage:

https://dosbox-x.com/

There are quite a lot of new features and other improvements in this latest version, such as drive Z: directory support, changing current floppy or CD images when running guest systems, START command for non-Windows platforms, major improvements to multi-language support (including for example support for UTF-8 language files, Unicode menu text and Chinese/Japanese/Korean languages).

You can find the release notes for this version (containing the change history) here:

* https://dosbox-x.com/release-0.83.14.html

Direct download for the HX-DOS package:

* dosbox-x-mingw-hx-dos-20210601013916.zip

The package is self-contained so that you can simply unzip the file and type DOSBOX-X to run in DOS. It is confirmed to work in DOS, and read the included README.TXT file for more information.

In addition, the updated DOS LOADLIN package for DOSBox-X 0.83.14 is also available, available from:

* dosbox-x-dos-0.83.14-loadlin.zip

For the LOADLIN package, you can run DOSBox-X right from DOSBox-X's DOS shell. Just make sure to start the outside DOSBox-X with the setting "memsize=127" and "cputype=pentium" (perhaps also "fullscreen=true").

Sir,

This build is not compatible with D-Fend Reloaded GUI.
Previous builds were able to be started without problems from D-Fend,
this build halts at message asking about mapping "C:" disk.

> DOSBox-X 0.83.14 is now officially released! Designing to be a
> cross-platform and complete DOS emulation package, it is the goal of
> DOSBox-X to cover essentially everything in the DOS scene, including DOS
> games, DOS shell, DOS applications, Windows 3.x/9x, PC-98, and more, and
> also to implement accurate emulation as possible.

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> This build is not compatible with D-Fend Reloaded GUI.
> Previous builds were able to be started without problems from D-Fend,
> this build halts at message asking about mapping "C:" disk.

D-Fend Reloaded had been abandoned for a long time (no updates since 2015). In any case, can you check the actual MOUNT command being passed by D-Fend Reloaded to DOSBox-X that caused the said message? Thanks.

> > This build is not compatible with D-Fend Reloaded GUI.
> > Previous builds were able to be started without problems from D-Fend,
> > this build halts at message asking about mapping "C:" disk.
>
> D-Fend Reloaded had been abandoned for a long time (no updates since 2015).
> In any case, can you check the actual MOUNT command being passed by D-Fend
> Reloaded to DOSBox-X that caused the said message? Thanks.

Mount option is configured in D-Fend GUI, section "Drives", option set "Folder as hard disk" and path is specified. I see no option in D-Fend where any mount command would bet set.

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> Mount option is configured in D-Fend GUI, section "Drives", option set
> "Folder as hard disk" and path is specified. I see no option in D-Fend
> where any mount command would bet set.

I tried it myself and see what happened. DOSBox-X 0.83.14 added support for directories on the Z drive, and programs like MOUNT.COM are now located on subdirectories of the Z drive (e.g. Z:\SYSTEM for MOUNT.COM) rather than the root directory of the drive. The default %PATH% in DOSBox-X has been changed accordingly, but it appears that D-Fend Reloaded will set it again by itself ("Z:\" by default). So you just need to change the setting for %PATH% in the section "DOS environment" of D-Fend GUI to the following to match the new default:

PATH=Z:\;Z:\SYSTEM;Z:\BIN;Z:\DOS;Z:\4DOS;Z:\DEBUG;Z:\TEXTUTIL

Then D-Fend Reloaded should work just fine with DOSBox-X 0.83.14. Hope this helps.

> So you just need to change the setting for
> %PATH% in the section "DOS environment" of D-Fend GUI to the following to
> match the new default:
>
> PATH=Z:\;Z:\SYSTEM;Z:\BIN;Z:\DOS;Z:\4DOS;Z:\DEBUG;Z:\TEXTUTIL
>
> Then D-Fend Reloaded should work just fine with DOSBox-X 0.83.14. Hope this
> helps.

Your solution worked and now I have newest DosBox-X in D-Fend.

Thank you!

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