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D-Fend Reloaded 0.8.2 has been released
This is a bugfix release with no new features.
The changelog:
- Faster program start.
- Faster start of profiles on many games in the games directory.
- [Fix] Previewer area at the bottom of them main window is not resizeable.
- [Fix] When using the "Create multiple shortcuts" function the tooltip hints
for the created shortcuts can be wrong.
- [Fix] When transfering, uninstalling, building archive files or building
installer packages from profiles using cue/bin CD images only the selected
cue file was processed; the bin file was ignored.
- [Fix] The mounting search and replace function of the multiple profiles
editor did not work.
- [Fix] The mouse wheel not working on settings page of the multiple profiles
editor.
- [Fix] Sometimes a second taskbar entry appears when clicking the program
window while creation of an archive package is prepared.
2009-08-31 06:06:22 UTC by alexanderherzog
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D-Fend Reloaded 0.8.1 has been released
This is a bugfix release with no new features.
The changelog:
- [Fix] If you press the delete key in the quick search box the program asks
you if you want to delete the currently selected profile.
- [Fix] Pressing F3 while the wizard dialog is visible causes an access
violation when closing the dialog.
- [Fix] The update installer did not update all DOSBox language files.
- [Fix] The scan games folder function was not automatically adjusting the
mounting settings from the auto setup templates if not VirtualHD was used
as games folder.
- [Fix] Program window position is lost after restoring the program window if
using the minimize/restore on DOSBox start option in fullscreen mode without
border.
- [Fix] In portable mode the automatic profile update after program upgrade to
make all profiles DOSBox 0.73 compatible did not work.
- [Fix] The restore default values for this category button on the default
values page of the profile editor only worked for the first category.
- [Fix] Sometimes the screenshot viewer displayed a wrong resolution in the
status bar after resizing the viewer window.
- [Fix] Wrong value "50000" instead of "49716" in the default values list for
sample rate settings.
- [Fix] Added missing value "4axis_2" to joystick types default values list.
- [Fix] Added missing values to default values lists for SoundBlaster and GUS,
DMA and IRQ settings.
- [Fix] Added missing value "none" to SoundBlaster OPL mode default values
list.
- [Fix] Removed "0" from default values list for the memory size.
- [Fix] The "How to add profiles" info panel at the bottom of the program
window was not automatically removed after adding the first profile.
2009-08-10 09:49:23 UTC by alexanderherzog
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D-Fend Reloaded 0.8.0 has been released
This is a major release which brings a lot of new features and also fixes all currently know bugs. The changelog:
- DOSBox 0.73 is supported and bundled with D-Fend Reloaded.
- The user can switch between different icon sets for the toolbar, the menus
and the dialogs now.
- The dialog for scanning the games folder for new games has been rewritten
and offers more options now.
- Faster program start when using large game lists.
- More settings in the multiple profiles editor.
- New program icon and logo made by burnsflipper, the designer of the original
D-Fend logo.
- New tab "Notes" at the bottom of the program window for direct access to the
stored game notes.
- Now you can choose to use the game filesnames or the folder names as names
for the new profiles when scanning the games folder for new games.
- Via the new multiple shortcut creation dialog you can create shortcuts for
more than one game at once.
- Now the user can select the profile name, the template to use, the
destination folder and the file to start when importing zip files
(regardless if the new game was identified by an auto setup template or not).
- Support for user-defined interpreters (like before only for QBasic) inside
DOSBox.
- Better algorithm for scaling images when displaying captured screenshots.
- Now icons can also be added to the icon manager by dragging them to the icon
manager window and by scanning the games folder for new icons. Additionally
the icon manager will show icons added by copying them to the icons folder
immediately.
- New optional start mode: Fullscreen without window border.
- The default parent directory for the capture folders for games can be
configurated in the setup dialog now.
- The icon size for the game icons in the games list in view mode "Icon" can
be configurated now.
- The first start wizard has been improved and now is easier to use.
- Now "Pause" can be chosen as DOSBox background priority.
- The scan games folder for new games function is now also respecting the extra
program folders of existing profiles and is not trying to detect games in
this folders anymore.
- Cleaned up menu structure (in particular the function for creating archive or
exe packages for multiple games have been moved from the Extras to the Export
menu).
- Option to hide the menubar.
- Faster search for DOSBox if it is not stored in the default directory.
- [Fix] Error message when closing the profile editor dialog when editing a
template.
- [Fix] If the first run wizard is closed by clicking the window close "X" the
settings are not stored.
- [Fix] Now 16-bit Windows exe files are also recogniced as Windows program
files and the user is warned if he trys to start a 16-bit Windows program
file via DOSBox.
- [Fix] When running a profile using a helper program to be executed after the
main program via a shortcut the helper program was not executed.
2009-07-28 07:42:47 UTC by alexanderherzog
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D-Fend Reloaded 0.7.0 has been released
This is a major release which brings a lot of new features and also fixes all currently know bugs. The changelog:
- Dutch language file (thanks to Tim Molderez)
- Italian language file (thanks to Filippo Bartoli)
- Archive files not created by D-Fend Reloaded can now also be imported.
(D-Fend Reloaded will try to auto detect and setup the game.)
- Now the games folder can be scaned for new games (which will be added
automatically then).
- Support for external archiving programs lets D-Fend Reloaded handle other
archive formats than zip and 7z.
- New toolbar icons.
- Many new options for automatically and manual selection of the right physical
CD drive to mount on DOSBox start (for example mount drive by file or folder
on CD or ask the user to select a drive).
- Option to run some other program (for example a hardware setup tool) before
and after the main program (DOSBox or ScummVM).
- The genre and language names in game profiles can now be translated on the
fly so profiles created via auto setup templates etc. will always be shown
with translated names for the genre and the language of the game.
- Integration in the Vista Game Explorer.
- Again some improvements to the long to (DOSBox) short file name converter
(thank you to skatz).
- A new custom settings edit field in the profile editor for ScummVM profiles
allows to add any custom configuration settings to the ScummVM ini file
when starting a ScummVM profile.
- Added new functions in ScummVM profile editor: Option to disable joystick
support, option to setup an extra path, option to setup render mode,
option to setup game platform and option to define custom languages for
games (and to setup the default languages list for the games in the setup
dialog).
- Option to setup data folder automatically for new profiles in wizard.
- Many new functions in the multiple profiles editor.
- The program file icon of the Windows program file will be used as the default
icon on Windows game profiles.
- The sound previewer and the quick starter now also can playback MIDI files.
- Now the D-Fend Reloaded main window can (optionally) be restored when ScummVM
closes.
- The D-Fend Reloaded main window can be minimized before a Windows game
profile is started and restored when the program quits (both optional).
- You can define a default keyboard layout and a default codepage per DOSBox
installation now.
- On the first page of the of the wizard now you can choose how many things the
wizard should ask you. (In the default configuration the wizard will be much
easier to handle if there is a auto setup template for the game.)
- Now you can add user defined game information as columns to the games list.
- Auto setup templates from existing profiles can now also be created via the
export menu.
- Now also images from the games data folder can be used in screenshot mode in
the games list.
- The column widths in the games list can be restored to the last state on
program start now.
- The history dialog has been extended with some statistic functions.
- If the translation of a long path name to a short DOSBox name fails, the
program will show a warning message now.
- Support for the DOSBox CVS build features "securemode", "pixelshader",
"cpumode" and the new CD drive accessing modes "ioctl_dx", "ioctl_dio" and
"ioctl_mci".
- Now you can also define submenus in the "Old games" custom menu.
- The link lists for "Search for game" and "Old games" in the help menu can be
imported and exported now.
- Updated DOSZip from 1.28 to 1.31.
- Moved most program files to a "Bin" subfolder of the installation directory
and moved all configuration files to a "Settings" subfolder of the
installation data directory. (This will make the usage of portable
installations easier because less files in the main program main directory
will make finding the DFend.exe faster.)
- Now also icons inside program dialogs can be replaced via the Icons.ini file.
- "Open program folder" now also available for ScummVM and Windows games.
- [Fix] Starting games via DOSBox failed if the game file uses a long filename
and the DOSBox drive was mounted via a relative path name.
- [Fix] Creation of zip archives could fail if the profile uses a drive image
which is located inside the (already included) games folder.
- [Fix] Creation of installer packages or zip packages will result in to big
files if the game to pack uses iso images or zipped drives.
- [Fix] The selected ScummVM save path was assigned to ScummVM correctly.
- [Fix] Seleting "French (Canada)" as language results in an English program
language.
- [Fix] When using the option "File path is relative to the DOSBox directory
structure" D-Fend Reloaded shows an error message when closing the profile
editor and when starting the profile (but then starts the profile correctly).
- [Fix] Access violation when trying to show the "No file name" warning when
adding a Windows game profile and not entering a file name to start.
- [Fix] If a prof file with the same name already exists in the destination
path while transfering profiles the profile file was not copied to the
destination correctly. (The algorithm for finding an alternative file name
changed the profile filename in a wrong way.)
- [Fix] The ScummVM games list stored in the ScummVM.dat file was not always
read correctly on program start up.
- [Fix] When using the restore window size on start up function sometings the
menu bar gets invisible.
- [Fix] Uninstaller is not removing uninstall entry from Windows software list.
- [Fix] In some long to short path name related error messages wrong
information have been displayed.
- [Fix] The option "Close DOSBox when program closes" is not working on running
extra program files via the context menu.
- [Fix] Warning message when running ScummVM based games from zip files via a
D-Fend Reloaded desktop shortcut.
- [Fix] Error message when loading toolbar images not in bmp format via the
Icons.ini file.
- [Fix] Transparency not working in user defined toolbar images.
- [Fix] Reduced number of colors in screenshot preview for new screenshots
after returning from fullscreen DOSBox.
- [Fix] Reduced number of colors in some png screenshots in the preview area
in the main window.
- [Fix] Spelling bug in installer package nsi script.
- [Fix] On smaller screen resolutions the D-Fend Reloaded program window
could be a bit to high. (The taskbar has not been subtracted from the
available desktop height.)
2009-04-28 07:36:27 UTC by alexanderherzog
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D-Fend Reloaded 0.6.1 has been released
This is a bugfix release with no new features. The changelog:
- Improved Windows long pathname to DOSBox short pathname converter (thanks to
Alexander Katz).
- The select image dialog for adding image files as harddisks in the profile
editor will now also show cue sheet files.
- Smarter initial directory when opening selection dialog for text editor, wave
encoder and ScummVM.
- [Fix] Opening text files in "Use default editor for file type" mode sometimes
did not work.
- [Fix] Sometimes an access violation occured just after uninstalling a game.
- [Fix] Selecting/Unselecting profiles via the "Select by..." buttons in the
"Build installer" dialog etc. did not work with "Not set" values.
- [Fix] Wrong view style (icon instead of list) in the sounds and the videos
previewer area at the bottom of the main window.
- [Fix] Access violation while displaying an error message if renameing a
screenshot is not possible (for example because a file with the new entered
name already exists).
- [Fix] Execution of Windows programs could fail under some rare conditions
(this only affected helper programs like text editors etc. and not Windows
games started via the games list).
- [Fix] Problem if virtual serial port is working as a modem in DOSBox and
"Listen for connections" is turned off.
- [Fix] Screenshots, sounds and videos lists not always sorted correctly.
2008-10-31 07:26:11 UTC by alexanderherzog
