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Curated games: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/35328265-Powered-by-DOSBox/

Boxtron changes

  • Add an option to disable games starting in fullscreen (with ♥ for tiling WM users)
  • Include several workarounds for broken or non-portable .cue files bundled with the games
  • Treat *.bat files as an executable for BOXTRON_RUN_EXE
  • Prepare for initial GameHub support

To accompany this Boxtron release, I prepared an experimental DOSBox build from the dosbox-staging repo. To test it, download the package, unpack it somewhere and configure Boxtron to use it by changing/adding following line in [dosbox] section of your ~/.config/boxtron.conf:

cmd = ~/<your-path>/dosbox-staging/dosbox

You can confirm it's running by looking at the window title (it should say "DOSBox staging").

I would love to hear feedback from you about the quality of this build :)

dosbox-staging changes

This version of DOSBox combines krcroft's new audio for DOSBox patch to replace SDL_sound dependency with heavily trimmed NY00123's SDL2 adaptation patch and additional changes from me to marry the two, rebased on top of the newest trunk of upstream SVN version.

You can find this work on po/boxtron-test-1 branch in dosbox-staging repo, but consider it very early and experimental state; I do not recommend merging these changes to your DOSBox fork yet.

Compared to DOSBox 0.74-3, this version has:

  • Fixed input issues when playing in fullscreen
  • Alt-tab working correctly
  • Switching to fullscreen uses the display where window was located
  • Fixed mp3 playback
  • Improved ogg playback
  • You can unlock mouse cursor when in fullscreen mode (Ctrl-F10)
  • Steam Overlay seems to be more stable
  • You can use Steam Overlay to allow cursor to leave game screen in fullscreen mode

Some games, that are significantly improved by using dosbox-staging:

  • Tomb Raider 1 (software rendering)
  • Carmageddon (software rendering)
  • Alone in the Dark 3
  • Megarace 2
  • Stargunner

Known issues:

  • Pressing Super to toggle Gnome Activities overview does not work
  • New .cue parser is more strict, which might cause imgmount to fail for some games - happens e.g. in GOG version of MK3, and Steam version or vanilla TR1 (when running outside of Boxtron).
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