<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(rabadi @ Aug 16 2006, 12:59 AM) [snapback]248807[/snapback]</div>
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Well that's interesting. I never use D-Fend, I just use the traditional DOSBox. Do you mean that in D-Fend, the program will be intelligent enough to raise or reduce cycles according to the game being played? I mean, if I want to play games like Lands of Lore and Anvil of Dawn, I will set the cycles to 8000. But when I played Ancient Land of Ys, the cycles needed to be reduced as low as 250, 'cause otherwise the game will be much too fast. With Albion, however, no amount of raising/reducing cycles really worked for me, it is unbearably slow. So, can D-Fend adjust that automatically?
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No. Cycles cannot be automatically changed by D-Fend.It wouldn't know what speed you would be happy with!
You still have to use Ctl-F12 to raise cycles etc. This is what I mean by setting te game up first time. Once you have started the game the first time and raised/lowered the cycles to what your happy with you would put that information into the game profile in D-Fend. D-Fend can auto cycle up and down by 500 (there's an option to tick in the profile) The main point is that once this information is put into D-Fend, that's it. In your Ancient Land of Y's you have to adjust the cycles everytime you play the game. You also have to mount the drive, and if it needs the CD you have to mount the CD as well. In D-Fend, you do all this just once. And once you put the cycles required into the profile, that's it.
All I can say is get D-Fend, read the readme.txt, or just try it. I am currently playing about 5 Abandonia games. I would hate to go back to opening DosBox, mounting the drives, going to the correct folder and starting the exe, then increasing/decreasing cycles, etc. In fact D-Fend is why I am happy playing 5 games at once. For me it's just a double click on the profile title in D-Fend to start the game. Hardly any more than any modern game shortcut on your desktop!
And I haven't even mentioned the fact you have room for comments on the game, you can classify it in a genre, then list by genre, you have many settings you can play around with to get a stubbvorn game working, but it only involves ticking boxes, not entering all those esoteric commands in DosBox!
There's many more options too that even I only skim the surface of. It really is an excellent DosBox front end. I personally think the two products should merge. I will close by saying that once you have used D-Fend for a little while you will never see how you managed with just DosBox!
I think you can tell I am a fan of D-Fend!
And it's free!