Dapplegrey 3.5

Description

Dapplegrey is a frontend for the Mac OS X DOSBox port (which you can get from the official DOSBox website) written in REALbasic.

If you've already installed DBGL, DBGL can also be used as DOSBox source to run games with Dapplegrey.

Dapplegrey gives you the ability to set options DOSBox provides to the user, but w/o having to enter those options by using the Terminal or even have to edit the DOSBox config file by TextEdit. The config file which will be send to DOSBox will be written to hard disk just before Dapplegrey tells DOSBox to start.

Changelog

Dapplegrey 3.5 - Now available again: Multiple CD images

The Drives section allows to mount multiple CD-ROM images per drive letter again. This is now managed by using a listbox with checkboxes in the list of files, where you just tick the images you want to get mounted in DOSBox. DOSBox supports up to 5 CD images per drive-letter. The re-written Drives window also lists floppy images in a listbox with checkboxes. Remember, multiple floppy images are currently only supported in current SVN versions, not in the plain 0.74 or 0.74-1 version of DOSBox (version 0.74-1 is available for Mac OS X only and comes with the fullscreen fix introduced in Lion, and is available in the official DOSBox downloads section) . This is the main feature of release 3.5 of Dapplegrey.
Drag and Drop of images: The mount type (Floppy, CD-ROM, Hard Disk Drive) has been set automatically before. Some disk images may not be recognized correctly as floppy or hard disk drive, so you can select this mount type now manually.
Also when Dragging and Dropping files and folders onto Dapplegrey, the pathes to the files and folders will be shortened to "~/...", if it is located within the User's folder. The Tilde sign "~/" is the usual abbreviation for your users folder, so if you want to use a file stored within, you don't have to enter the full path to the file as "/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/Yourname/...", just start it with "~/" instead of.
In the Mixer section, the maximum offered loudness amount can be customized now.
When Dapplegrey's main window is minimized, and a Sheet window is attempted to be opened, the main window should be maximized now. This is required to display the Sheet window in request.
Dapplegrey now supports to mount your Finder's Ramdisk in DOSBox, in condition its name contains "Ram" and "Dis" (as abbreviation of "Disk") . If you've set more than one Ramdisk, only one of them will be used. Mounting the Ramdisk is supported in running a plain DOSBox as well as in game profiles. For game profiles, a menu item "Set Finder's Ramdisk" will be available in the 'Drives' toolbar item of Dapplegrey.
When running a plain DOSBox session, you can set a frameskip rate now.
The author of Dapplegrey managed to use Boxer as DOSBox source again. Since Boxer changed its internal behaviour in Version 1.0, Boxer no longer worked well in order to use it as DOSBox source as before. Looked for a way to still use it's recent versions, now the author of Dapplegrey detected there was a space char (" ") too much in source code, which prevents it from working. So, if you've also installed Boxer as DOSBox emulator on your system, you can use it as DOSBox source again, but there is a very important limitation, compared to pre-1.0 Boxer versions: Your Dapplegrey settings will *not* be send to Boxer, because Boxer doesn't eat them, and there is no chance to get this working.
This is the first time Dapplegrey's supporting SVN properties, introduced after the release of DOSBox 0.74:
- EMS adds emsboard and emm386 to its options
- Midiconfig adds a Delaysysex ("when using a Roland MT-32 rev. 0 as midi output device, some games may require a delay in order to prevent 'buffer overflow' issues. In that case, tick 'delaysysex'" - taken from the config file written by SVN version)
- Multiple Floppy images as written in the first section of this news.
- Set a different date (accessible using the "DOSBox" toolbar item, "Edit AUTOEXEC.BAT" -> "Date" toolbar item (if visible) .
- Set a different System Files letter, aside of the well-known Z: drive. In Dapplegrey accessible by using the toolbar item "DOSBox" ->"Edit AUTOEXEC.BAT" -> "Path settings". See this VOGOS thread: Remap "Z" to different letter - usually, there is no reason to do so.
- Quoted from Windows 3.1, DosBox, and a game that requires a disk: "Also, there is a fix in SVN source for an issue with some PC/Mac hybrid discs that can cause QT movies not to play, so if updating QT doesn't help then you might try an SVN build of DOSBox." - this one doesn't require a front-end addition.
- Remember, an upcoming DOSBox version, in case it will be released, may not implement some of the features that can be found in SVN development version, which is still Universal Binary (may run on a PowerPC G4 as well) and can be found here: DOSBox Wiki/SVN Builds - It's very recommended to run this newer version.
Dapplegrey 3.5 still runs on Mac OS X 10.4 equipped with a PowerPC G4 processor type.