BladeFireLight Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 I know some of the distro's of xcom now out there come with dosbox. Does any one know what version? 0.73 has a really annoying brake in the SHIFT command I'm using in the xcusetup and it's going to be a pain to work around it. -Blade FireLight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zombie Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 My test Steam versions indicate v0.72 and the Direct2Drive also shows v0.72. So I think we could assume all the DosBox versions used are 0.72. - Zombie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BladeFireLight Posted October 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 ugg.. it gets worse. the call function has been overhauled in 0.73 and is totally broken. causing my new xcusetup to crash dosbox calling another file. xcusetup would be ten times more complex if I am forced to rewrite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zombie Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 Does DosBox v0.72 have this call problem as well? I wouldn't worry about 0.73 as none of the distributors of X-COM are using that version. The only other thing you could do is only provide support up to 0.63/65 which would force people to download that version and apply the 0.72 config to it. But that wouldn't be too nice either. In any case, good luck! - Zombie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BladeFireLight Posted October 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 Actually 0.72 was what I developed under. 0.63/65 don't have file redirection and a few other basic dos functions. according to the release notes batch file processing got a full overhaul in that 0.73 now reopens a file for each line. this totally killed the shift statement (fixed in the current cvs), something I am using. and seemed to make the call function having unpredictable issues. for now I'm doing a test if the shift statement doesn't work then setup will exit with an error asking the user to upgrade. not elegant but they release a broken version. Now I need to work with there support people to create a simplified batch file that can replicate the issue. If I don't it may not get fixed in the next release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SGCSG1 Posted November 28, 2009 Report Share Posted November 28, 2009 Does anyone know where you can get a copy of 7.2? All I see at the dosbox webpage is 7.3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kret Posted November 28, 2009 Report Share Posted November 28, 2009 Check it again. Just go to the downloads section of dosbox https://www.dosbox.com/download.php?main=1 and at the end of the first list you should read "Old dosbox versions 0.58-0.72 source + binary(x86)" just before the list of frontends. The link should take you to the sourceforge list of older versions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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