0.7 (The install-o-matic release)
Game package and game-installation improvements:
* Running a DOS installer program (e.g. install.exe) which isn’t already in a game package will offer to install the game into a new package for you.
* Boxer now handles drive C more robustly and predictably:
o When launching a game package (or opening files inside one, no matter how deeply nested), the package will always be drive C. This means packages now act as self-contained little DOS machines.
o The rest of the time your DOS Games folder will be drive C, and files inside it (again, no matter how deeply nested) will be opened relative to it.
* Game packages can now run games from subfolders inside them. This will fix games that need to be run from C:GAMENAME rather than C:.
* Mountable images/folders inside a game package can be named with the drive letter you want them to use: e.g. E.iso, D.harddisk, B.floppy.
* Boxer now only auto-detects mounts and games inside packages, not inside regular folders. This reduces startup times for launching to a DOS prompt, but requires you to use packages for most tasks.
* Added auto-configuration for a dozen more games.
* More comprehensively-documented game configuration files.
Other changes:
* Boxer now chooses an appropriate label for mounted folders. This fixes physical CD-ROM detection for many games (ones that check the volume label of their CD.)
* Added the DOS Utilities folder, which is installed to ~/Library/Application Support/Boxer/ and mounted as drive Y. Gravis Ultrasound drivers are included here to make them available to all games.
* Recognise (most) Windows-only executables and give an alert instead of launching them.
* Prompt to close the DOS window after a program exits.
* Detect the resolution of the primary display and use it as the fullscreen resolution in
DOSBox Preferences.conf. Currently this will not detect secondary displays nor reflect changes to the primary display.
* Added support for .cdr disc images created by Disk Utility.
* Fixes for bugs under OS X 10.4.
* Improved error handling and error reporting in Boxer (does not apply to
DOSBox errors).
* Disabled support for .img disk images owing to too many false positives (which often cause
DOSBox to crash). Support will be reintroduced once Boxer is smart enough to work out what a real disk image looks like.
* New
DOSBox icon to distinguish individual
DOSBox sessions from the main Boxer application in the Dock. Also a new icon for the Boxer disk-image, and minor improvements to other icons.