Bugfix release.
Lot of safeguards, to avoid unforseen cercomstances.

Next release will have the fixes for :
- DOS32a doesn't work on occasions (trailing backslash in environment vars?)
- PathChanger needs redesign

Added a zip extraction directory to the D.O.G. Options.
Setting it to <default>, blank, a write protected directory or unexisting directory will result in the old functionality, else this directory will be used.
All drives will now be extracted to their own personal map inside the used directory, meaning 'A' to 'Y'. This to avoid overwriting two zips mounted as differant drives but both archives having the same name.
Also added a nice ui to view the archive processing wich is a needed function when using large archives.

Archive corruption can occur on several occasions,
Short on diskspace, Windows Explorer block, D.O.G. crash, Low on mem ...
Still need to find a way to catch and correct these situations.

I'm planning to move the DOS32 feature outside the profile manager as DOS32a doesn't have anything to do with an extra functionality but more with rewriting the game's exe or extender.

Pathchanger still no change.

Still to do :
- Safeguarding against archive corruption (don't know how yet)
- DOS32a doesn't work on occasions (trailing backslash in environment vars?)
- PathChanger needs redesign

Bugfix release
Fix for the crash resulting from changing the language file.

Bug fix release :

- Save dialog now automatically adds the selected extention if the user saves to a filename without extention.
- Empty language file entrie in language.dog now is filled.

Erik.

ok i somewhat sorted that out, though i think the <DOGHOME> showing instead of the drive letter is a bug.


Also, Resolutions are saving, but not loading, all resolutions are 640x480 at load.

Hi,

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ok i somewhat sorted that out, though i think the <DOGHOME> showing instead of the drive letter is a bug.

Can't follow, sorry,
What did you sort out?
Were do you encounter the <DOGHOME> that you think is a bug?
Or do you mean that, if <DOGHOME> represents a drivename like C:\ then it needs to show C:\ instead?

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Also, Resolutions are saving, but not loading, all resolutions are 640x480 at load.

Yup, you are right will fix it as soon as possible.

Steps to reproduce :
1. Edit Profile
2. Set Resolution to other then 640x480
3. OK
4. Edit Profile
5. Change Profile to 640x480
6. Cancel
7. Edit Profile
Expected : Resolution set to selected res for Profile
Actual : Resolution set to 640x480

Thanks,

Erik.

I add the Zip for bioforge, which is

D:\Games\BIOFORGE.ZIP

with BIOFORGE.EXE being the app to launch

before saving the profile it appears as
$..\..\..\Games\Lemmings.zip*LEMMINGS.BAT

when i save the profile it shows as
<DOGDRIVE>Games\BIOFORGE.ZIP*BIOFORGE.EXE

and thus fails to work, the correct command line should be
$D:\Games\BIOFORGE.ZIP*BIOFORGE.EXE

This results in Dosbox looking in the dog folder first, instead of the looking at the correct drive.

By correcting the the command line with $D:\ it loads the game correctly

Secondly, i was under the impression that when adding a zipped game+exe, it was supposed to automatically supposed to mount that zip? because not mounting the zip also leads to the game failing to load.

I keep forgetting that Drives in DOG / Dosbox use virtual assignments so its not actually creating mapping to C:\

On my PC, my zipped games are in

D:\Games\*.zip, with * being the zip's name.

DOG is in D:\Program Files\DOSBox\DOG\

i have them unpack to D:\Games\Tempmount


as for auto mounting, i tend to preassign C and D as hdd's, and E F G as CDRoms, (G is a virtual CD Driver)

as this allows me to test the game with little to no issues before zipping it.

As to your idea, i think it would work best that way, to automatically created H:\ or what ever the next drive is as a ZIPMount.

Bug fix build :
- <DOGDrive> replacing ..\..\ .
- Resolutions not loading in the Profile Manager.

Erik.

D.O.G. 1.6 beta is made available under the download section on the D.O.G. website.

In the meantime, if someone has a copy of 1.6 beta, could they re-upload it somewhere? I've been away for quite a while and I'd like to try it.

Of course the best thing would be if erikgg found a better filehost and reuploaded it, or a newer version but he seems to be MIA (?)

Hi,

As my workload at work is decreasing 'economic crises and all..." I'm getting more time to spend on the dev of D.O.G.

I'll reupload and clean up everything as soon as possible.

Greetings,
Erik.