News
- Wednesday, 05/14/2008
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D-Fend Reloaded 0.4.0 has been released.
This version brings a lot of new features (ScummVM and QBasic support, a completely rewritten more powerful new profile wizard, more functions to work with image files and a lot more). Additionally this version fixes all currently known bugs. A complete list of all changes can be found in the changelog file. All available versions can be downloaded from the Download page. - Tuesday, 05/13/2008
- D-Fend Reloaded has been downloaded over 50,000 times now. More than half of the downloads are D-Fend Reloaded 0.3.2 downloads (see also the diagram on the growth of the download numbers).
- Thursday, 03/27/2008
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A Simplified Chinese language file
for D-Fend Reloaded 0.3.2 has been released.
With this langauge file D-Fend Reloaded 0.3.2 can also be used in Simplified Chinese. - Monday, 03/17/2008
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New example game packages have been released.
The new programs and games packages contain all together 86 freeware and shareware programs and games which can directly be used in D-Fend Reloaded. Overall there are 340 MB of software. The new game can be installed by simply clicking 4 times "Next" in the installer and are immediately useable in D-Fend Reloaded. All games packages can be downloaded from the Download page.
Overview
D-Fend Reloaded is a graphical environment for DOSBox. DOSBox emulates a complete computer including the DOS commandline and allows to run nearly all old DOS based games on modern hardware with any of the newer Windows versions.
With DOSBox there is no need to worry about memory managers or free conventional RAM, but the setup of DOSBox is still a bit complicated. The configuration of DOSBox via textbased setup files might be difficult for beginners. D-Fend Reloaded may help and create these files for you. Additionally the D-Fend Reloaded installation package contains DOSBox (including all lanuage files currently available), so there is only one installation to be run and no need to link D-Fend Reloaded with DOSBox manually.
Differences between D-Fend and D-Fend Reloaded
In some way D-Fend Reloaded is a successor of the discontinued software D-Fend. Both environments look alike and D-Fend Reloaded contains all the features of D-Fend. Even the D-Fend config files are compatible with the current program. However, unlike D-Fend, D-Fend Reloaded is open source.
The development objective for D-Fend Reloaded was (besides 100% D-Fend compability) to make the program operation more simple with respect to DOSBox beginners. Simultaneously more features for administration and configuration became available.
Download
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D-Fend-Reloaded-0.4.0-Setup.exe (11.0 MB) |
| This package contains D-Fend Reloaded 0.4.0 (English, French, German, Russian, Simplified Chinese & Spanish), DOSBox 0.72 (including all language files currently available) and the FreeDos commandline tools. |
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D-Fend-Reloaded-0.4.0-UpdateSetup.exe (1.7 MB) |
| This package requires an existing D-Fend Reloaded installation and will update this installation to version 0.4.0. This package contains D-Fend Reloaded 0.4.0 (English, French, German, Russian, Simplified Chinese & Spanish). |
A list of all changes from the previous version can be found in the changelog file. More version (zip package, source code) and an examplary applications package can be downloaded from the Download page.
Contact
Your help is very welcome ! You can contact me via eMail (see program info dialog in D-Fend Reloaded) or via the Vogons forum. Bug reports, language files, icons and also feature requests are welcome at any time. Before sending a bug report, please check the list of known bugs to see if perhaps your bug is already known and fixed.