http://dfendreloaded.sourceforge.net/index.html?lang=en
Running DOS games has never been easier...
D-Fend Reloaded is a graphical environment for DOSBox. DOSBox emulates a complete computer including the DOS commandline and allows to run nearly all old DOS based games on modern hardware with any of the newer Windows versions.
With DOSBox there is no need to worry about memory managers or free conventional RAM, but the setup of DOSBox is still a bit complicated. The configuration of DOSBox via textbased setup files might be difficult for beginners. D-Fend Reloaded may help and create these files for you. Additionally the D-Fend Reloaded installation package contains DOSBox (including all lanuage files currently available), so there is only one installation to be run and no need to link D-Fend Reloaded with DOSBox manually.
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Differences between D-Fend and D-Fend Reloaded
In some way D-Fend Reloaded is a successor of the discontinued software D-Fend. Both environments look alike and D-Fend Reloaded contains all the features of D-Fend. Even the D-Fend config files are compatible with the current program. However, unlike D-Fend, D-Fend Reloaded is open source.
The development objective for D-Fend Reloaded was (besides 100% D-Fend compability) to make the program operation more simple with respect to DOSBox beginners. Simultaneously more features for administration and configuration became available.
You can find a portable version of D-Fend Reloaded on the author's site:
http://dfendreloaded.sourceforge.net/Download.html?lang=en
Look under 'Other Packages'.
It looks like it is not strictly in Portable Apps format specification but I think it will do its job.
PortableApps version of D-Fend Reloaded 1.2.1 zip package
D-Fend-Reloaded-1.2.1-Portable.paf.exe (13.3 MB)
why it isnt by portable apps?
Because of the way D-Fend Reloaded is written it uses a a modified version of the Portable Apps Format. This has meant in the past that it couldn't be included. Hopefully though in the future John or Chris or one of the many guru's will have the time to work with the dev to see if it can packaged correctly or in a way allowing it to be listed on this site.
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