Jason Carr

Yeah, in truth I see no reason to ever get rid of TGDB or Wikipedia, but if we go that route they may not be enabled by default. Regardless, there's not much reason to completely remove their support from the application. So I certainly wouldn't worry about losing any of that functionality. Per the moderation issues, I have some *really* cool ideas towards solving that problem, that have not been done before. I'm almost hoping that this one wins the vote, because the more I think about it, the cooler the idea gets. Allowing everyone to click a button and have their entire collection added to the public database could mean we have the most extensive database in the world. The system could then recommend entries based on which ones are most populated, and chosen the most often, while giving you complete control to choose whatever you want. This would be a challenge, but I believe we could well solve any moderation issues, as I have very extensive experience with these types of development issues. But the possibilities go well beyond sharing metadata and images. I'm envisioning a broader social platform where people can share their collections by posting web browsable versions of them online, community ratings, and much more. Still not sure if we'll head in that direction, but it is exciting for me currently. As always, any and all thoughts are welcome.

This warms my heart.

Can't believe nobody's mowed it yet. No one appreciates anyone these days.

That lawn isn't going to mow itself, folks.

I found the MS-DOS manual more interesting than friends. It's a wonder I have any social skills at all.

No worries, easiest thing to do for GOG games is to use the GOG-provided shortcut file in the application path. Otherwise, you can customize the DOSBox configuration and such if you put it into LaunchBox proper (select the DOS startup exe and DOSBox config file), but there's no reason to do that if you're happy with the GOG configuration. Per the batch file thing, you might be able to do all that by adding multiple additional applications and marking them to auto-start before running the game, but I'm not sure that would really be any easier. It would certainly be nice to have an automated solution, so I'll see if there's any way to do that for a future version.

Yup. At one point I built an extensive multi-level menu system for all of my games/apps that used only autoexec.bat and config.sys files. Was really quite useful. And I felt like a programmer when I was 12.

No worries, I don't mind. Multiple posts means I know more than one person would like a particular feature, which often lights a fire under my posterior.

Welcome, eXo, and many thanks for your work.

Sure, nesting like that has been a long time request, and I can definitely see the benefit of it. It is unfortunately still a major thing to tackle, which is one reason why I haven't gotten to it at any point. I'll add this to my list.

Hehehehe, no kidding. I remember every detail about my first machine...640 KB of RAM, a 30 MB hard drive (yes, that's megabytes), and a CGA monitor (16 colors, 4 at a time). Classic 8086.

Hi Stimpy, I have plans to allow proper customization of this. For now, though, it's an attempt to put games in proper order (such as making sure Half-Life: Source comes before Half-Life 2). There is a Sort Title field you can use though to reorder just that one game.

I think most any decent shooter has an easy setting that can be used. Per shooters that are worth playing, Bioshock Infinite and Dishonored are both incredible modern shooters. Dishonored is more of a stealth game, and can be played barely shooting anything at all (though I often find it more fun to shoot). Tomb Raider from 2013 is also an incredible game, sort of as an adventure/shooter crossover.

Yeah, one of the reasons I love GOG so much. Fills a hole that we had for so many years...now if more publishers would just use it...

Holy crap...now that is quite an interesting piece of history.

Hi whitoxx, welcome. I'll add Demul to my list of emulators to test/tinker with. As of yet, I have not tried it.

I am planning to fix this before the next official release.

Sure, there would be no way to launch the individual episodes if the game doesn't allow you to launch them with different commands, unfortunately. We could divide them up, but there would be no way to launch them. Or maybe I'm confused...

Wow, that's pretty useful. That means, in theory, I could have LaunchBox auto-download Steam banners. Thanks monyarm...I've added this to my list of to dos. Could potentially download metadata as well, I suppose.

Ah, I understand guys. This would be a challenge so unfortunately it can't be an immediate priority but I'll consider it going forward. You might be able to do something similar with custom saved filters but of course that isn't the ideal interface for it.

Hi Stimpy, Old Windows games on later versions of Windows are consistently a royal pain. For Sim City, you'd be much better off finding a DOS version and playing it in DOSBox. There are some good DOS versions of the game. But yeah, you'd need a Virtual Machine in VirtualBox, Hyper-V, or VMware in order to effectively play the Windows version. That is unfortunately a pain to get setup and maintain, however, as you have to install and maintain a complete operating system just to run the game.

Thanks for the purchase, klownk. I'm not exactly following. You'd want these "sub-genres" to not show up in the sidebar?

Hi Stimpy, there's a couple of options. One option is to use Additional Applications for each episode (they're accessible from right click or the controller). That's probably the closest to what you're looking for. Another option would be to use the new Game Series field that I'm adding to the next version (a beta release should be out soon).

Hi monyarm, yes, I can reissue your license for your proper email. Send me an email at jasondavidcarr at gmail with your full name and email and I'll send out a new license.

Ah, nope, I was thinking backups for some reason. I do attempt to delete the setup files upon a successful install, but apparently on some systems the file is still in use for whatever reason, so they don't get deleted. Certainly doesn't hurt to clear that folder out.