DosBox Example
Author: Tim Mangan
Date: June 11, 2022
Repackaging tips and silent install information for DosBox Example -. This App Tip provides comprehensive details for conducting a silent installation of Example. It includes additional insights, such as user environment specifics, extra installation parameters, and repackaging tips.
About
DOSBox is a DOS-emulator that uses the SDL-library which makes DOSBox very easy to port to different platforms. DOSBox has already been ported to many different platforms, such as Windows, BeOS, Linux, MacOS X.
General Information
Vendor Information
DosBox
Application Name
Example
Application Version
-
Download Link
https://dosbox.com
License Needed
No
Vendor Install
Installation Type
Architecture
x86
Description
Application Configuration/Settings
Registry
File
AD/GPO
AAD/GPO
User Environment Data
Registry
File
Other
Infrastructure Dependencies
Description
ODBC
Connection Name
Driver
Parameters
Setup.exe parameters
MSI Public Properties
Installation Commands
Silent Install Command
DOSBox0.74-3-win32-installer.exe /S
Silent Uninstall Command
"C:\Program Files (x86)\DOSBox-0.74-3\uninstall.exe" /S
Repackaging Score
MSI
Unknown
MSIX
Full Functional
The software was packaged on Windows 10 21H2 using Microsoft MSIX Packaging Tool 1.2022.330 without the PSF.
App-V
Full Functional
Allow VFS Writes
ThinApp
Unknown
Citrix App Layer
Unknown
VMWare App Volumes
Unknown
Other
Full Functional
Silent Install
Repackaging Tips
This package is an example of a 16-bit DOS application, which natively could no longer run on x64 systems. We include DosBox as a way to host this app; packaging them together and using DosBox as the shortcut that automatically launches the 16-bit app in its emulator.
The specific 16-bit app in this package is Blockout, a Tetris like game, but the concept here holds for a bunch of old 16-bit business apps that are still in use today, mostly by Small companies. Often, these 16-bit apps are an ancient line of business app that they just can't live without and will continue to use until the owner of the business retires or passes away.
We install two components.
First install DosBox. Then the target app is installed (unpacked) and we configure DosBox to automatically start the app in the DOS Autoexec.bat file.
The DosBox installer adds extra shortcuts we want to remove for production. For extra credit, you change the DosBox shortcut to use an appropriate application icon and name.
The specific 16-bit app in this package is Blockout, a Tetris like game, but the concept here holds for a bunch of old 16-bit business apps that are still in use today, mostly by Small companies. Often, these 16-bit apps are an ancient line of business app that they just can't live without and will continue to use until the owner of the business retires or passes away.
We install two components.
First install DosBox. Then the target app is installed (unpacked) and we configure DosBox to automatically start the app in the DOS Autoexec.bat file.
The DosBox installer adds extra shortcuts we want to remove for production. For extra credit, you change the DosBox shortcut to use an appropriate application icon and name.
- The product does have an autoupdater. Like they didn't even exist back then. We didn't have the internet of today, just dial-up modems to usenet.
- The DosBox application installs with two shortcuts and we remove one.
- AppData folders are not used as they didn't exist back then.
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