#16 Running games from zip archives

[Justin Kerk]

It would be neat if DosBox could run games inside of
zip archives. This would allow easier organization of
games because each would fit in a single file, similar
to the way emulators like MAME work.

There would be problems with writing to the disk -
DosBox would have to either disallow this for zipped
games or implement some sort of a buffer that held
changed files to be re-zipped on exit.

[Qbix]

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Well the current idea is to mount a second filesystem which
will hold the changes for each archive

like mount d e:\kee4.zip -changes c:\keen4.changes

I would advice to install games this way :) but running
them should be no problem
It will require a lot of programming so it won't be finished
soon:)

[Guillaume Serre]

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We could also just create a directory named like the zip
archive but without the .zip extension. I think it would be
better if the zip archive contents never change and contain
only the game with no save games and default settings.
When looking for a file in this directory, we could look
first in the directory if it exists and then in the zip file
(works a bit like an override folder).

[takysoft]

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Read-only support should be easy to implement. Read-write might be harder to optimize.
What I'd need is the option to mount ISO images(iso, bin+cue, img, mds, other stuff:D)