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For now you build your own. I'm still considering how to connect GitLab pipelines to the repo and have automated builds from there. If you know GitLab CI and/or Docker welk, raise your hand please.

Kudos to @RealLarry for creating a whole bunch of game configurations! They're in the repo:

https://gitlab.com/doscontainer/games

Sure, I'm intrigued! Plus.. hey.. games!!

I can't reproduce the issue you're seeing with 3D Realms Entertainment. Have you tried pulling your YAML through yamllint manually?

That's funny.. the metadata section is completely unused yet. But It'll look into it! It shouldn't have any effect whatsoever so I'd like to understand why if it does. Thanks!

Open issues and feature requests are on this page by the way. You can log in here with your GitHub credentials if you don't have an account with GitLab yet.

https://gitlab.com/doscontainer/framework/-/issues

I hope you'll like it. Please report any issues you run into. I'm developing on something of a niche set of systems so not every bug is immediately apparent to me.

Breakage fixed..

Sed detection works. Found some boilerplate in an older script of mine that I could adapt. Now back to the other bugs.. aggravating how Arch does add gawk for AWK.

FreeBSD and its distinction between sed and gsed, which is niche but is also how MacOS works.. which is less niche. Can you report an issue for it? Some tools need a slightly more robust detector.

There's a more serious bug right now that kills the fetching of distfiles for me completely.. that code could also do with some more sanity.

Done!

Good one.. of course emulated RAM is always OK.

Service announcement: if you downloaded yesterday's version, you'll need to update framework.sh to the current version in the main branch. I refactored a lot of code around handling MS-DOS installs and replaced distfiles for them, so checksums will break on previous versions of the script. Bumped the framework version to 0.0.2 for now.

Scratch 1.. doesn't work.. So for now my toolbox won't go further down in history than MS-DOS 4.00 and I'm skipping 2 for now. Too much head scratching involved. I'm going to focus on actually releasing something that works so that it can be improved upon later.

I got the booting down for DOS 4.00 through 6.22 with mbr and vbr's from the original systems. The exact same trick chokes on 3.31 and lower though. Nothing changed other than the DOS versions. That's what got me stumped. Will be breaking out the hex editor tomorrow..

FreeDOS could be added but there's not much benefit for old games. Will do so once I get all HDD-installable MS versions set up.

Just wanted to drop something cool here:

https://www.brutman.com/mTCP/mTCP_NetDrive.html

I have nothing to do with this tool but it looks incredibly useful. Will be testing it myself later this week. The prospect of remote mounting actual disks from DOS looks really tempting!

Time for a Turing test for retro emulation?