dreamer / boxtron

Steam Play compatibility tool to run DOS games using native Linux DOSBox
https://luxtorpeda.gitlab.io/
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Instructions to test dosbox-stagging are wrong #28

Closed neuromancer closed 4 years ago

neuromancer commented 4 years ago

The latest release note says:

To accompany this Boxtron release, I prepared an experimental DOSBox build from the dosbox-staging repo. To test it, download the package, unpack it somewhere and configure Boxtron to use it by changing/adding following line in your ~/.config/boxtron.conf:

cmd = ~/<your-path>/dosbox-staging/dosbox

However, if you create your boxtron.conf file with only that line, boxtron will fail to parse it. You need to use:

[dosbox]
cmd = ~/<your-path>/dosbox-staging/dosbox
dreamer commented 4 years ago

Thanks for spotting this. I reworded the sentence to indicate that this line is in "dosbox" section. Hopefully most users are not going to create this file by hand - it is being created automatically on first run.

In future versions I might drop the sections altogether - there's not enough options to be grouped and I don't intend to introduce more.

neuromancer commented 4 years ago

Hopefully most users are not going to create this file by hand - it is being created automatically on first run.

That right, however, if you want to start using boxtron with the dosbox-stagging, that file will not be created and the user will (most likely) create this file from scratch following the instructions.

dreamer commented 4 years ago

The file is created by Boxtron, not dosbox-staging. The issue happens only when user never used Boxtron before and wants to start using it with dosbox-staging right from the beginning (dosbox-staging is being tested, it didn't replace system dosbox as default dosbox implementation yet).