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.
Being that my development system is quite outdated, and will not manage Tiger, it has, and will be built for MacOS 10.3, with a G3 target. It should work ‘just fine’ with MacOS X 10.4. Feedback would be greatly appreciated.
I will slowly rebuild my build system for each tool I have previously supported, and as I manage to do so, the applications will be placed back into the Current Software section.