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Portable D-Fend Reloaded Changelog

What's new in Portable D-Fend Reloaded 1.4.4

Aug 1, 2015
  • All path names in conf files stored in archive files are made relaltive.

New in Portable D-Fend Reloaded 1.4.3 (Jun 29, 2015)

  • Updated Turkish language file.
  • Updated DOSZip from 3.21 to 3.38.
  • [Fix] The mobygames data read failed to download images specified as relative URLs.

New in Portable D-Fend Reloaded 1.4.2 (Sep 19, 2014)

  • Updated Korean language file.
  • Better error handling when internet connection fails while trying to download game information from Mobygames.
  • [Fix] The "File path is relative to the DOSBox directory structure" checkbox below the program file input line in the profile editor was not visible anymore.

New in Portable D-Fend Reloaded 1.4.1 (Jul 29, 2014)

  • Updated Italian language file.
  • Improved sorting speed in the package manager.
  • Records can be manually deleted from the package manager via the context menu.
  • [Fix] Sorting the package manager games list by download size did not work.

New in Portable D-Fend Reloaded 1.4.0 (Jul 1, 2014)

  • When downloading game information now The Games DB (thegamesdb.net) can be used as data source, too.
  • DOSBox, ScummVM and Windows games can be set up to be started with admin rights. (This option is turned off by default and has to be enabled on the security page of the program settings dialog.)
  • When choosing "max" for the CPU cycles in the profile editor additionally a limiting value can be defined now.
  • The lists in the data package manager can be sorted now by clicking on the column headers.
  • [Fix] When internet connection is cut during download of a package manager file the download dialog is not blcoking the whole program anymore.
  • [Fix] Sometimes a video file was still clickable in the meda tab after being deleted from disk.
  • [Fix] Viewing the DOSBox conf file fails when using a custom DOSBox installation.

New in Portable D-Fend Reloaded 1.3.6 (Mar 31, 2014)

  • Updated Danisch, French, French Canada, German, Italian und Polish language files.
  • Updated Italian DOSBox language file.
  • Updated DOSZip from 2.50 to 3.21.
  • Better filtering of game notes text in game information reader.
  • [Fix] Changing to the game directory is not working on some newer DOSBox CVN version if using PhysFS or archive file based drive mounts.
  • [Fix] Line breaks created in the program notes field due to breaking the text on the right window side are not stored anymore as line breaks.
  • [Fix] Until now not the same saved games where visible when running a ScummVM based game via D-Fend Reloaded and via plain ScummVM.

New in Portable D-Fend Reloaded 1.3.5 (Oct 26, 2013)

  • Updated Polish language file.
  • Updated DOSZip from 2.48 to 2.50.
  • Improved game information reader to receive data from the updated Mobygames homepage.
  • Updated search link for Squakenet.com.
  • Now the base folder used for making folder names relative can be mounted as a drive, too.
  • [Fix] The "Delete all" context menu item for screenshots, sounds and videos
  • did not work if no item was selected.
  • [Fix] When using Windows-based emulators stored in a path relative to the D-Fend Reloaded program directory in portable mode, games using this emulator where not displayed correctly in the "Emulation type" filter of the games filter tree.
  • [Fix] Starting a game could fail if there were multiple drive mountings directing to the game files folder.
  • [Fix] When trying to install a game from a real floppy drive the installation support function could fail.

New in Portable D-Fend Reloaded 1.3.4 (Oct 26, 2013)

  • Updated Korean language file
  • Updated French and French Canada language files
  • Updated DOSZip from 244 to 248
  • Added options to set sound volulme for multiple profiles at once to the
  • multiple profiles editor
  • Setting the font properties for the preview area now will also apply to
  • the notes text input field
  • Extracting and creating archive files can be canceled now
  • Now also data files for which there is an user-defined interpreter can be
  • added by drag&drop
  • The screenshot thumbnails in the preview area of the D-Fend Reloaded program
  • window will be cached now so the screenshot images will not need to be
  • scaled down each time the screenshot previews will be displayed

New in Portable D-Fend Reloaded 1.3.3 (Jan 6, 2013)

  • The mobygames data read can read the game description now, too.
  • Added an option to disable file checksums for multiple profiles at once to the multiple profiles editor.
  • New tree structure filter section "Recently started" will list the last 50 games started.
  • Added a new "Recently started" section to the tray area D-Fend Reloaded icon context menu listing the last 10 started games.
  • Improved the mount and imgmount command interpreter which is used to scan the [autoexec] sections of imported conf files.
  • [Fix] Starting programs from Windows game profiles that need admin rights did not work.
  • [Fix] When configuration additional program files only the first 20 entries will be stored.
  • [Fix] The game wizard will setup a screenshots folder for Windows games now, too.
  • [Fix] The function to get the current screensaver status (for disabling the screensaver as long DOSBox is running) could rise an exception.
  • [Fix] Downloading cover images from mobygames failed when manually adding a game and trying to download images before saving the new profile for the first time.

New in Portable D-Fend Reloaded 1.3.2 (Sep 18, 2012)

  • Updated Italian language file.
  • Updated French and French Canada language files.
  • Updated German language file.
  • Updated DOSZip from 2.33 to 2.35.
  • Updated German and Italian DOSBox language files.
  • When downloading images from mobygames, now also screenshots will be loaded.
  • Additionally the maximum number of covers and screenshots to be download
  • per profile have been increased from 10 to 25.
  • The mobygames data read is now downloading up to 8 files parallel, which
  • results in a significant speed up when downloading cover images.
  • Now up to 50 additional program file can be specified per profile.
  • The video RAM size now can be set up via the GUI for custom DOSBox builts not using the videoram key in the [vga] section, too.
  • Improved initial screen position for the quick starter window.
  • Some smaller improvements to the automatic checksum collector for templates.
  • [Fix] The uninstall dialog offered to remove the whole game folder if there
  • was only one profile next to the "DOSBox DOS" profile and this profile used
  • a program or setup file located directly in the games folder.
  • [Fix] For some auto setup templates the user game information list on the
  • game information page of the new profile wizard showed an additional empty
  • line.

New in Portable D-Fend Reloaded 1.3.1 (Sep 18, 2012)

  • Korean language file.
  • Updated Italian language file.
  • Updated French and French Canada language files.
  • Updated DOSZip from 2.27 to 2.33.
  • When showing the DOSBox conf file / ScummVM ini file D-Fend Reloaded will add the command line parameters used when starting DOSBox / ScummVM as a comment in the file.
  • The file icon of the emulator program file will be used when displaying the user-defined emulators in the profile filter tree now.
  • Improved auto detection of ScummVM when installing ScummVM after installation of D-Fend Reloaded.
  • [Fix] User-defined command line parameters were ignored when running ScummVM.
  • [Fix] Hiding the ScummVM console did not work on newer ScummVM versions.
  • [Fix] Error message when adding a ScummVM based game via the wizard and not "Show all pages" was selected on the first page of the wizard.
  • [Fix] Changing settings on the DOSBox CVS features page of the program settings dialog could damage default values for render modes etc.
  • [Fix] Some labels in the profile editor were not large enough for the Italian translation.

New in Portable D-Fend Reloaded 1.3.0 (Sep 18, 2012)

  • Updated FreeDOS from 1.0 to 1.1 (full installer only).
  • Updated DOSZip from 2.17 to 2.27.
  • Menu item in profiles menu and profile context menu: Open file in program
  • files folder.
  • Service section of setup dialog: Reset all profiles to template.
  • New "Open DOSBox prompt in program folder" context menu and profile menu item.
  • The floppy/harddisk image file creator can diretly create a profiles for
  • booting the created image file in DOSBox.
  • Now the floppy/harddisk image file creator can add Doszip to image files.
  • New option not to repack the archive file when the game quits when using an
  • archive file as a drive.
  • Improved detection whether a program is using DOS4GW or not.
  • Better disk image type auto detection when extracting files from an image file.
  • Improved checksum usage when searching for new game in the games folder.
  • [Fix] When entering numerical values in a spin input field in the profile editor via keyboard the value range is not always checked properly.
  • [Fix] Creation of bootable hard disk images was broken.
  • [Fix] Trying to get the list of available MIDI devices fails if there are no
  • drive records in the default template.
  • [Fix] The edit button in the drives list context menu of the profile editor
  • opened the add drive dialog and not the edit drive dialog.
  • [Fix] Removed useless information popup when editing the capture folder for
  • a Windows game profile in the profile editor.
  • [Fix] Removed invalid ISO image warning when extracting a floppy or hard disk image.
  • [Fix] When downloading a cover image from mobygames right after changing the capture folder (without closing the profile editor in between), the image will be stored in the old capture folder.
  • [Fix] Wrong position for the portable version info button on the DOSBox
  • page of the configuration dialog when switching from basic to advanced configuration mode.

New in Portable D-Fend Reloaded 1.2.1 (Oct 24, 2011)

  • Added a setup option to select which filter keys to be displayed in the
  • filter tree view.
  • The Russian language file has been updated.
  • [Fix] Exception in the new game wizard when using the default template.
  • [Fix] Exception when using the "Reset all pages but this" function in the
  • profile editor to reset a profile to a template.
  • [Fix] Wrong name for "Export archive file" popup menu item.

New in Portable D-Fend Reloaded 1.2.0 (Sep 29, 2011)

  • Updated DOSZip from 2.08 to 2.17.
  • Added about 300 new auto setup templates.
  • New "Select by" option in the profiles export dialog: Games for which there
  • is no auto setup template.
  • New option to create package list xml files for plain archive files.
  • In the extra program files dialog of the profile editor parameters for the
  • additional program files can be entered now.
  • New function in the icons manager to add all icons from a selected folder
  • and its subfolders.
  • Setup option to allow or block multiple instances of D-Fend Reloaded at the
  • same time.
  • New option to setup the font style (bold, italic, underlined) for normal
  • games list entries.
  • D-Fend Reloaded can store up to 9 internet addresses per profile now.
  • Setup option to use the image viewer as a non-modal window.
  • New option to change pixel shader settings in the multiple profiles editor.
  • More ScummVM settings in the multiple profiles editor.
  • The modes "hardware2x" and "hardware3x" will be added automatically to the scalers list when activating the pixel shader GUI.
  • New input fields on the MIDI page of the profile editor to setup MT32.
  • Now you can set up custom DOSBox settings per DOSBox installation, too.
  • Improved detection if the per profile keyboard mapper file is the same as the global keyboard mapper file on the keyboard page of the profile editor.
  • Additional user-defined command line parameters can be passed to ScummVM now.
  • Now the icon manager will show icons located in sub folders of the icons
  • folder, too.
  • Some smaller improvements to the first run wizard.
  • [Fix] Incompatibility with ScummVM 1.3.x is fixed.
  • [Fix] Storing the order of user defined columns in the games list did not
  • work correctly.
  • [Fix] The package manager can handle splitted packages larger than 2 GB from local sources now.
  • [Fix] The options "Video chipset" and "Video RAM" in the multiple profiles
  • editor did not work correctly.
  • [Fix] Displaying multiple bmp files in the screenshots previewer did not work
  • correctly.
  • [Fix] Opening the profile editor for an auto setup template could rise an
  • expection under some conditions.
  • [Fix] The function "Convert absolute to relative paths" from the service page
  • of the program options dialog could rise an expection under some conditions.
  • [Fix] Clicking the down button to reorder the list of user-defined emulators
  • on the "Other emulators" setup dialog page cause some settings to be
  • overwritten.
  • [Fix] The names of the user-defined emulators in the dropdown box on the
  • "Other emulators" setup dialog page were not always correct.
  • [Fix] When filtering the games list by emulation type when selecting
  • "Windows" also games using some user-defined emulators were listed.
  • [Fix] The download/copy progress dialog shows wrong percent values in the
  • caption when copying large files from local sources.
  • [Fix] When changing the program language the language of the entries in the games list columns listbox did not change at once.
  • [Fix] The list available of licenses was not displayed correctly in the
  • "Select by" menu.
  • [Fix] The preferences for opening text, image and video files were not
  • respected when opening files from the data folder via the context or the
  • profile menu.

New in Portable D-Fend Reloaded 1.1.0 (Sep 29, 2011)

  • Updated DOSZip from 2.05 to 2.08.
  • New option in the mobygames data reader to download all images available for some game.
  • Setup option to configure if history information of started games shall be
  • collected or not.
  • Support for more special ykhwong DOSBox builds features.
  • New optional games list column: Number of starts of the profile.
  • When exporting the games list you can choose which fields to export.
  • Now the package list creation and package download system can handle packages
  • larger than 2 GB by splitting them.
  • The names for the files to look for a profile name suggestion when importing
  • plain archive files (default: FILE_ID.DIZ) is configurareable now.
  • The history viewer dialog opens much faster now.
  • The games list tooltips now also tells how often the selected profile has been started.
  • New setup dialog option to configure whether D-Fend Reloaded should add a
  • trailing backslash to path names when calling an external packer or not. (uha
  • needs path names without trailing backslashs.)
  • Default command line parameter values for the external packers uha and arj32 are included now.
  • User defined emulators will be listed as sub entries below "Emulation type"
  • in the games list filter tree.
  • A new option to filter the games list by game license is offered in the
  • filter tree.
  • Setup option to rename all media files in all profiles.
  • The "Starting DOSBox failed" dialog now also allows to change the selected
  • SDL video driver.
  • Option to reselect the last selected profile on program restart.
  • The games list can be exported as a xml file now.
  • New option in the icons library to rename all icon files to have upper or lower file extensions.
  • The package manager will display the download size of the selected games now.
  • Some more new auto setup templates.
  • The package manager will open faster now.
  • Lower memory consumption on downloading large files via the package manager.
  • Tuned the game and setup file detection code.
  • [Fix] The automatic translation of the license fields in the profiles failed.
  • [Fix] Sorting the columns in the history dialog by clicking the column
  • headers did not work for all columns correctly.
  • [Fix] The second last games list column could not be moved down (to be the
  • last column) on the games list columns editor in the setup dialog.
  • [Fix] Template names and custom game information keys containing "&" can
  • cause problems.
  • [Fix] When running from a network share not connected to a drive letter
  • starting DOSBox failed.
  • [Fix] When clicking the zoom button in the video previewer while a damaged
  • video file is selected or the needed codec is missing a division by zero
  • error message appeared.
  • [Fix] Access violation when using the "Start" dialog from the tray icon menu
  • and opening a second dialog from the tray icon menu while the first dialog is
  • still open.

New in Portable D-Fend Reloaded 1.0.3 (Sep 29, 2011)

  • When importing plain archive files or folders D-Fend Reloaded will look for a
  • FILE_ID.DIZ file and use if existent its content to suggest a profile name.
  • Files (like text files etc.) can be used as profile specific helper programs
  • to be started before or after the main program now.
  • The physical path names for drives mounts can contain semicolons now.
  • If the user selects a custom MIDI device to be used in a profile the device
  • will be stored by name and not by id anymore so the right device will be
  • selected when using the profile on an other system, too.
  • Now the DOSBox IPX network settings can be configurated in the mutli profile
  • editor, too.
  • Support for new glide=emu mode when using a ykhwong DOSBox build.
  • [Fix] Running profiles via command line parameters or via desktop or start
  • menu shortcuts was not working.
  • [Fix] Error messages when trying to load icons larger than 256x256 pixels.
  • [Fix] A cover image downloaded from mobygames via the profile editor was not
  • shown in the image viewer area of the main window at once if the profile
  • editor was closed by clicking on "Cancel".

New in Portable D-Fend Reloaded 1.0.2 (Sep 29, 2011)

  • Updated DOSZip from 2.01 to 2.05.
  • About 50 new auto setup templates.
  • The French and the French (Canada) languages file have been updated.
  • [Fix] When starting a new language based on "English" in the DOSBox language
  • editor the chosen default DOSBox language was used, not always English.
  • [Fix] When importing a game from a plain archive file by using an auto setup
  • template which has an icon file defined now D-Fend Reloaded will check if the
  • icon file exists and remove the icon record if not.
  • [Fix] Some temporary files were not deleted when closing D-Fend Reloaded.
  • [Fix] "Transfer profiles" dialog not large enough for Italian translation.

New in Portable D-Fend Reloaded 1.0.1 (Sep 29, 2011)

  • Updated DOSZip from 1.54 to 2.01.
  • A new start-up logging function can help you to find the problem if
  • D-Fend Reloaded is not running.
  • Now the DOSBox language file editor can use the DOSBox built-in Englisch
  • language file as template.
  • Updated the png file reader library.
  • [Fix] In some cases the "DOSBox start failed" dialog could appear even if
  • DOSBox is working correctly.
  • [Fix] Access violation when unsing the "Create image" dialog.
  • [Fix] Download of multiple games packages from Sourceforge always failed.
  • [Fix] The pixel shader option on the graphics card page of the profile editor
  • was partially out of the dialog.
  • [Fix] When selecting a MIDI device to be used in a DOSBox profile the text
  • "midiconfig=id" is added to the additional MIDI settings field instead of just the MIDI device id.
  • [Fix] When running D-Fend Reloaded in portable operation mode and the base
  • directory for relative path names was not set to the program directory the
  • capture folder was not stored correctly.
  • [Fix] If updated from a previous D-Fend Reloaded version the changelog tab
  • in the program information dialog may displayed an outdated, incomplete
  • DOSBox changelog.
  • [Fix] The main window was not disabled while the check for missing files
  • progress dialog was shown.

New in Portable D-Fend Reloaded 1.0.0 (Sep 29, 2011)

  • DOSBox 0.74 is supported and bundled with D-Fend Reloaded.
  • Updated default values to offer all values available in DOSBox 0.74.
  • The new game installation support will assist you when adding a game that
  • needs to be installed before being able to be used.
  • New function for making FreeDOS bootable images and profiles from normal
  • profiles.
  • Functions for changing saved games (cheating) using an internal, editable
  • data base or by searching for values in saved game files.
  • Updated DOSZip from 1.49 to 1.54.
  • It can be configurated from the setup dialog now when to update the packages list, the data reader configuration etc.
  • Via the Help|Search for updates function now you can also search for package
  • list, data reader and cheats database updates.
  • The zip file import function also can import DBGL packages now.
  • New easier to use first run wizard.
  • If DOSBox start fails D-Fend Reloaded will show some information and will
  • offer some options to find and solve the problem.
  • Now folders can be imported like archive files via the import menu and via
  • drag&drop.
  • DOSBox language file editor.
  • New setup option when to configurate a new game completely automatically.
  • Like the genre and language names the license 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 license.
  • Now multiple commands can be specified to be executed before/after DOSBox.
  • The DOSBox console window can be turned on and off on per profile now.
  • In the profile editor you can selected which physical output device to use
  • when playing MIDI music inside DOSBox.
  • In the game information data reader dialog you can specify to look for DOS
  • based games only or to look for all games.
  • The game information data reader dialog now also can change the profile name.
  • Now the game information data reader will remember which fields have been
  • activated and which have be unchecked.
  • The paths to the text editor and the media viewers are stored relatively to
  • the base folder if the programs are located in subfolders of the base folder.
  • You can create capture folders and game data folders for all profiles at the
  • same time via the service page of the setup dialog.
  • You can disable the Windows exe file warnings for single profiles now.
  • Additionally to "and", "or", "not" language specific values for this logical
  • operator can be used in the filter field.
  • The fields for DOSBox window resolution and fullscreen resolution can have
  • individual default values lists now.
  • When creating a harddisk image file from some folder content now you can
  • specify how much free space you want to have on the image.
  • Some additionally information texts in the profile editor for making it
  • easier to understand the meanings of the DOSBox options.
  • Smarter way of finding the default GUI theme for ScummVM.
  • Some more auto setup templates.
  • [Fix] The "use scan codes" option was not passed the right way to DOSBox.
  • [Fix] Downloading multiple games packages via the package manager always
  • failed.
  • [Fix] "Not" operator in games list filter not working correctly.
  • [Fix] Mounting folders as CD drives did not work on systems without a real
  • CD drive.
  • [Fix] Some smaller fixes to the multiple profile editor.
  • [Fix] Hiding the ScummVM console did not work when starting ScummVM in
  • fullscreen mode.
  • [Fix] Error message when pressing F1 while menu is opened.

New in Portable D-Fend Reloaded 0.9.3 (Sep 29, 2011)

  • Czech language file
  • About 50 new auto setup templates for automatical installation of even more
  • games.
  • Some more fine tuning to the way setup files are detected when importing plain archive files.
  • [Fix] Downloading icons, language files and icon sets via the package manager
  • always failed.

New in Portable D-Fend Reloaded 0.9.2 (Sep 29, 2011)

  • The Italian language file has been updated.
  • Updated DOSZip from 1.41 to 1.49.
  • The functions for filtering the games list by a search string can handle
  • complex search strings (including "and", "or", "not", quotes, brackets,
  • compare operators for numbers, selecting properties to check by writing
  • "genre=..." etc.) now.
  • D-Fend Reloaded will use an internal update checker for checking for
  • program updates now. This will also fix the Windows 7 issue the program
  • looses focus on start up.
  • When running an update via the update check function the update installer
  • will not ask for the installation directory anymore.
  • The codepage selection dropdown box in the profile editor will show some
  • descriptions for the codepages now.
  • Improved DOSBox directory search order (if not installed together with DOSBox) on first run.
  • About 100 new auto setup templates for automatical installation of even more games.
  • Some fine tuning to the way game and setup files are detected when importing plain archive files.
  • D-Fend Reloaded will start a bit faster on first run now.
  • [Fix] The selected keyboard layout when defining a DOSBox installation
  • specific keyboard layout in the advanced DOSBox settings may not got saved.
  • [Fix] Setting the DOSBox background priority for multiple profiles at once
  • via the multi profile editor did not work correctly.
  • [Fix] Setting the CD volume did not work.
  • [Fix] In some conditions the Game Explorer integration during installation
  • could fail.
  • [Fix] When adding profiles via the scan games folder function the entered
  • name for the new profile was ignored when an auto setup template was
  • selected to be used for the new profile.
  • [Fix] When copying a profile or adding profiles via the scan games folder
  • function no collision check for existing capture folders was performed.

New in Portable D-Fend Reloaded 0.9.1 (Sep 29, 2011)

  • Brazilian Portuguese language file
  • Turkish language file
  • Updated DOSZip from 1.37 to 1.41.
  • Updated the DOSBox language files for German and Italian and added a new
  • DOSBox language file for Polish.
  • About 150 new auto setup templates for automatical installation of even more games. Althogether D-Fend Reloaded now has more than 1000 auto setup templates.
  • Updated the default value lists for the supported keyboard layouts and
  • codepages.
  • Added Wikipedia to the "Search for game" default links.
  • Faster filtering functions in the package manager.
  • [Fix] Drag&drop of zip files etc. to the program window sometimes did not
  • work.
  • [Fix] Access violation when uninstalling multiple games while one of the
  • profiles to be uninstalled is installed in the games list.
  • [Fix] Access violation when clicking the "Download game information" button
  • on the programm information page of the profile editor when no internet
  • connection is available.
  • [Fix] The game data reader update function did not work.
  • [Fix] When canceling a download from the package manager the program will
  • continue with the next file from the download list instead of canceling the
  • whole operation.
  • [Fix] The reset to default values function on the default values page of the
  • program settings dialog could raise an access violation when closing the
  • dialog.
  • [Fix] The select/unselect functions of dialogs like the prof file export etc.
  • did not work for profiles having multiple values in the choosen category
  • (multiple genres divided by ";" for example).
  • [Fix] When downloading multiple games via the package manager the close
  • button of the main window became enabled after the first download was
  • completed. Clicking the main window close button while the package manager
  • dialog was opened raised an access violation.
  • [Fix] The "Use as screenshot in profiles list" context menu item in the
  • "Data folder" tab was also visible if no file was selected.
  • [Fix] The "Rename all" and "Delete all" context menu entries in the
  • screenshots, sounds and video tabs were also enabled if there were no files.
  • [Fix] Some minor problems in the keyboard layout setup; in particular when
  • keyboard layout "none" is selected.
  • [Fix] Wrong filenames for downloaded language files if language file and
  • the package list directring to this language file were not in the same
  • directory on the server.
  • [Fix] Some corrections to the DOSBox keyboard layouts default values list.
  • [Fix] The update installer did not update all DOSBox language files.
  • [Fix] The uninstaller will not remove non D-Fend Reloaded files from the
  • D-Fend Reloaded installation directory without confirmation anymore.
  • [Fix] The language dropdown boxes in the setup dialog now have a tooltip hint and the dropdown list is wider (so "Brazilian Portuguese" is not truncated
  • anymore).

New in Portable D-Fend Reloaded 0.9.0 (Sep 29, 2011)

  • Example games packages, language files, icon sets etc. can be downloaded from the D-Fend Reloaded homepage via the import menu now.
  • Via the new "Tools" button in the profiles editor you can reset any page of a
  • profile to any template.
  • Ability to add games for other emulators as Windows profiles (calling the
  • emulator program file with the game data file as parameter).
  • From the game information page of the profile editor and the profile wizard
  • game information (including a cover image) can be loaded from mobygames.com
  • directly now.
  • Faster loading of the profile and the auto setup template files.
  • Now you can optionally enter multiple values per game info field (like genre,
  • language etc.).
  • Normal drive mounts can be converted into archiv file mounts and vice versa
  • right from the mounting dialog. The commands to run the game will also be
  • changed automatically if needed.
  • You can drag links from your browser to the D-Fend Reloaded program window now. D-Fend Reloaded will download and importthe zip file behind the link.
  • All captured screenshots, sounds and videos can be renamed from the context menu to have an uniform name scheme.
  • D-Fend Reloaded will warn the user when importing an archive file with a name of an existing profile and will prevent overwriting existing games directory subdirectories when importing plain archive files.
  • When adding new profiles via the profile editor needed mounting records can
  • be added automatically now. (This was already done when adding profiles via
  • the wizard.)
  • In the multiple profiles editor sections can be collapsed and expanded (like
  • in a tree structure) to make it more clear.
  • Now image files can be used as game icons, too.
  • The algorithm used for scaling images (like screenshots) can be selected from the program options dialog now.
  • D-Fend Reloaded can optionally create conf files for all profiles in the
  • games list automatically.
  • The floppy and harddisk image creator now can make harddisk images and floppy disk images of all sizes bootable.
  • The make disk image from folder content function now is able to create
  • harddisk images, too.
  • When creating disk images optionally disk management utilities and a text
  • editor can be added to the image.
  • When creating bootable disk images optionally a memory manager can be added to the image. Also not only the selected keyboard layout is used on the image but also the codepage.
  • Some improvements to the language editor.
  • Added *.ima to the file selection dialog when selecting an image file
  • for mounting or for extracting.
  • About 300 new auto setup templates for automatic identification of even more games.
  • Updated DOSZip from 1.31 to 1.37.
  • Two more sites have been added to the list of game information sites
  • (TheLegacy.de and KultPower.de).
  • The time needed on first program start for initializing the user data has
  • been improved.
  • The profile editor and the program options dialog will open a bit faster.
  • Some smaller improvements to the new profile wizard.
  • [Fix] Extra directories and extra files records (see directories page of the
  • profile editor) got damaged when using the "Convert absolute to relative
  • paths" function in the program options dialog.
  • [Fix] When importing a plain archive file with multiple executable files
  • in it and with a matching auto setup template sometimes the wrong executable file was selected.
  • [Fix] The main window hotkeys were enabled while template editor was open.
  • [Fix] Access violation then trying to add a game with a space in the filename
  • via the profile wizard.
  • [Fix] Starting games with folders mounted as CD drives failed on systems with no physical CD drive.
  • [Fix] The "Run game with current configuration" from the profile editor
  • dialog did not work with ScummVM and Windows game profiles.
  • [Fix] When setting the SoundBlaser or the Gravis UltraSound base address to
  • a hexadecimal address containing letters the selected address was not stored.
  • [Fix] Erroneous window behaviour when using "Run game with current configuration" from the profile editor dialog or when creating bootdisk images when "Minimize when DOSBox start" was active.
  • [Fix] keybrd2.sys and keybrd3.sys needed for some languages missing on
  • bootdisks.
  • [Fix] The select all button in the transfer programs dialog did not work.
  • [Fix] The game list hotkeys (like return, insert etc.) were not disabled when
  • entering the notes field.
  • [Fix] Wrong error message "No game file selected" when adding a profile for booting an image file.
  • [Fix] Access violation if you press and hold down the F9 key.
  • [Fix] Changed the default value for virtual free space on mounted drives from the DOSBox 0.72 default 105 MB to the DOSBox 0.73 default 250 MB.