Peter Veenstra, (Qbix, DOSBox) has been so kind as to donate cash to help cover the cost of my webhosting. Many thanks to Peter and the entire DOSBox crew for this gift.
Update: The link was removed on Sept. 1st, 2005. Please donate to the Salvation Army. Any funds donated to me throughout the rest of 2005 will be sent in care of the Salvation Army to assist families (formerly) in New Orleans.
I’ve had a few inquries in the past about moving from the ‘old standard’ Stuffit format for my bundles, as Apple no longer offers Stuffit Expander with MacOS X.
I refuse to embrace the .Zip broken-standard which Apple offers with MacOS X 10.3 – it not only stores things in a rather hackish way, but anyone who doesn’t useApple’s BOMArchiver to uncompress it will end up with useless and broken data.
I’ve created a poll which will run for the next two months. I prefer .tar.bz2 (tbz) personally, but this would have issues with older MacOS X 9 archives, or programs with seperate resource forks.
I will be further debugging, and adding this feature to the ‘article view’ function as it matures. Oddly, this was not requested until recently. I guess nobody actually reads my stuff here. ;)
Let me preface this with the following: If you’ve already installed DOSBox 0.63, you don’t need this. Please don’t waste my (relatively tiny) bandwidth.
As I’ve had to restart, I’ve had to rebuild virtually every aspect of DOSBox’s shared libraries, headers, and some OSX tweaks. This build has no AltiVec enhancements, and is built for a G3 target with XCode 1.5 (MacOS X 10.3.9, specifically.)
Anyway, if you want a MacOS X friendly DOSBox build, here it is. Please read the files included with the binary; they will answer most of your inquiries.