D-Fend Reloaded 1.44
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Play classic DOS games on Windows system
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Developer
Alexander Herzog
Updated
Aug 30, 2015
Size
15.3 MB
Version
1.44
Requirements
Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, XP
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D-Fend Reloaded is a graphical environment for DOSBox. DOSBox emulates a computer including the DOS command line, and allows it to run nearly all old DOS-based games on modern hardware with any of the newer Windows versions.
With D-Fend Reloaded DOS emulator allow you to bring your old DOS games back to life.
It is easy to use all you have to download and install the game, add it to the list of games in the program, and run it as usual. It is offcially avaiable on Sourceforge repositories.

You can also create portable installations by selecting “Custom installation” and then “Portable mode” in the installer.

Easy start:
The D-Fend Reloaded installer provides everything you need to run old DOS games (D-Fend Reloaded GUI, DOSBox, language files, FreeDos commandline tools). During the first start of D-Fend Reloaded everything is set up automatically.

Searching and sorting games:
D-Fend Reloaded contains many service tools to keep the overview even in large game archives. Games can be filtered by categories like genre and year of publication, you can also conduct find-as-you-type searches. For every game you can setup a data folder for manuals etc.

Creating new profiles:
Besides using the normal profile editor, new profiles may be added by the profile wizard. Additionally templates for different game types are integrated which need only the name and the path of the game as input.

Managing profiles:
D-Fend Reloaded collects all information regarding a certain program in its profile (program directory, screenshot directory, manual directory, icon file etc.). Therefore complete games may be deinstalled using D-Fend Reloaded and games can be copied from one installation to another. D-Fend Reloaded is also able to build installer packs to transfer games to other computers. (To use this feature you need NSIS.) Additionally complete games can be packed to zip and 7z files by the builtin zip support for archiving or transferring.

Language support:
DOSBox and D-Fend Reloaded are multilingual. The installer package contains all currently available language files. D-Fend Reloaded automatically sets up the DOSBox keyboard layout which refers to the language choose for D-Fend Reloaded.

Compatibility:
D-Fend Reloaded can read D-Fend and DBFrondend config files. D-Fend Reloaded is completely compatible with Windows Vista (in particular it runs without admin rights).

More highlights:

  • Games can be installed from zip files without any configuration..
  • D-Fend Reloaded may be installed in a portable operation mode (for USB-Sticks etc.).
  • Besides DOSBox you can also use ScummVM as emulator.
  • Also Windows-based games can be managed in D-Fend Reloaded.
  • With the integrated Bochs-FAT-Image-Creator you may create floppy and harddisk images to be used with DOSBox directly from the D-Fend Reloaded GUI.
  • D-Fend Reloaded can create images from CDs and floppy disks which can be used as drives in DOSBox.

D-Fend Reloaded Latest Version 1.44 Update

All path names in conf files stored in archive files are made relative. 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 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.