1. Get D-Box and Windows 3.1x.
2. If you have the diskettes for Windows, copy all the files to a directory on your hard drive. If you’ve downloaded a ISO file, extract the files to a directory on your hard drive (MacOS and most Linux distros have built-in support for ISO, just double-click on the icon, and drag the contents into a folder on you hard drive. Windows users can use WinRAR.)
3. Start D-Box, and drag the file Setup.exe from the Windows directory to D-Box’ application list. Click the OK button a few times.
4. Select the newly created item in the application list in D-Box with your mouse, and right click on it to get a pop up menu. From this menu click on “Edit Game”. In the new window, drag the slider under “How fast would you like the computer” as far right as it gets. Click OK.
5. Double click on the Windows application item in D-Box’ application list. Follow the setup’s installation steps. The defaults are good. Do not try to change the screen resolution. Leave it at VGA. Don’t bother with the network settings either.
6. When the installation is finished close the Dosbox window and return to D-Box. Once again, get the Edit game window (same procedure as in step 4), and change the text in the field Executable to:

   WINDOWS\WIN.COM

   and click OK.

   

7. Now you may use Windows 3.1x on your new super computer, and play, not only DOS games, but also 16bit Windows games! To add a new Windows game, just copy the files to the folder where you left the Windows 3.1x installation files.

Update: Do you want sound or better graphics?

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D-Box 2.2

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• The application data are saved at more sane places
• Built in support for screenshots (very easy to browse them and to set one as the application’s icon)
• Much work to make D-Box fit better on OS-X
• Support for custom themes (if you i.e. want to have the old D-Box look on Mac)
• No DosBox console by default
• GUI for choosing between icon and text, just text or only icon display in application list
• Automatically check for new versions
• And a lot more!

This is, by far, the best release yet, but to make sure it keeps up to my expectations I’ve decided to arrange a little beta period. So take it for a spin, and leave some feedback in the comment field!

D-Box 2.2 on Mac

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D-Box logo

Now that I finally managed to release D-Box 2.1, I’ve dusted off an old project: Creating a new and exciting product page for the application. I think it’s at least a bit cooler than the old google style page, and hope you feel the same:) It isn’t exactly an encyclopedia of fact, but it contains the most useful stuff. I will still keep the old page, but just for developing and wiki related stuff. Thanks to Gisle it now has it’s own subdomain under the truben.no umbrella.

Take it for a spin! – dbox.truben.no

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D-Box 2.1

It has, among many really usable features, a cool new look called “Floppy Flow”. Although it’s highly experimental, it’s worth trying:) Access it by pressing the Prefrences icon (the gear in the toolbar) and select “Flow View”.

Other new stuff:

• New improved popup menu
• Upgraded internal DOSBox to 0.73
• You can change the application-list’s icon size in the preferences dialog
• New expert mode: You can now change every single configuration that DOSBox provides using a new expert mode.
• Only writes the application-list to disk when you quit the program -> Increased performance
• D-Box caches icons for increased speed
• Possible to drop folders. D-Box will search for correct files
• Possible to drop multiple files or directories
• Support for DVORAK keyboard layout (US only)
• Possible to add a label to a CD-ROM drive
• Double speed on game list reading
• Changed keyboard acceleration key to run a game to Enter
• Lot of refactoring and rewriting of rotten code

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