Comments on “A taste of Boxer 1.0”http://boxerapp.com/blog/2009/11/29/a-taste-of-boxer-10/feed/A+taste+of+Boxer+1.02010-01-14T22:05:55+02:00ChyrpA taste of Boxer 1.0tag:boxerapp.com,2009-11-29:/blog/id/37//comment_53372009-11-29T21:12:54+02:002009-11-29T21:12:54+02:00Mimsy Swallows
<p>This is a fantastic piece of work - many, many thanks.</p>
A taste of Boxer 1.0tag:boxerapp.com,2009-11-29:/blog/id/37//comment_53382009-11-29T21:26:00+02:002009-11-29T21:26:00+02:00Mattiashttp://anosou.com
<p>You're a hero! :D Can't wait</p>
A taste of Boxer 1.0tag:boxerapp.com,2009-11-29:/blog/id/37//comment_53402009-11-29T21:40:26+02:002009-11-29T21:40:26+02:00brady
<p>holy shiiiiiiiiiiit am i excited for 1.0</p>
A taste of Boxer 1.0tag:boxerapp.com,2009-11-29:/blog/id/37//comment_53412009-11-29T22:26:42+02:002009-11-29T22:26:42+02:00Jef
<p>Nice, can't wait.. Will probably be annoying you with bugs if there are some!</p>
<p>DOSBox should make this its default interface. BTW, is DOSBox a process on its own or is it fully integrated in Boxer ?</p>
A taste of Boxer 1.0tag:boxerapp.com,2009-11-29:/blog/id/37//comment_53422009-11-29T22:37:37+02:002009-11-29T22:37:37+02:00Pierre Riteau
<p>That is just awesome. Thank you for your work.</p>
A taste of Boxer 1.0tag:boxerapp.com,2009-11-29:/blog/id/37//comment_53432009-11-29T22:50:31+02:002009-11-29T22:50:31+02:00BJ Wanlundhttp://twitter.com/bjwanlund
<p>Wow, this is amazing!! You've definitely been working very hard on this!</p>
<p>As I said on Twitter, I'd be happy to be one of the intrepid souls helping to make 1.0 all it can be. Plus, I can help test games you may or may not have.</p>
<p>BJ</p>
A taste of Boxer 1.0tag:boxerapp.com,2009-11-30:/blog/id/37//comment_53452009-11-30T12:34:41+02:002009-11-30T12:34:41+02:00Tom
<p>This looks fantastic. You're doing a great job :)</p>
A taste of Boxer 1.0tag:boxerapp.com,2009-12-01:/blog/id/37//comment_53472009-12-01T12:10:12+02:002009-12-01T12:10:12+02:00Kristján Guðmundsson
<p>Windows DOSBox user must be really really envious right about now. Looking forward to 1.0 to say the least</p>
A taste of Boxer 1.0tag:boxerapp.com,2009-12-02:/blog/id/37//comment_53482009-12-02T01:10:31+02:002009-12-02T01:10:31+02:00otto
<p>It's looking super sweet! I can't wait to try it out.</p>
A taste of Boxer 1.0tag:boxerapp.com,2009-12-02:/blog/id/37//comment_53502009-12-02T21:32:44+02:002009-12-02T21:32:44+02:00Jeaz
<p>Really nice looking - a proper version 1.0</p>
<p>Keep up the good work!</p>
A taste of Boxer 1.0tag:boxerapp.com,2009-12-03:/blog/id/37//comment_53512009-12-03T00:10:29+02:002009-12-03T00:10:29+02:00Jongleur
<p>Excellent work!! Looking forward to v1.0</p>
A taste of Boxer 1.0tag:boxerapp.com,2009-12-05:/blog/id/37//comment_53522009-12-05T11:50:55+02:002009-12-05T11:49:50+02:00Alun Bestorhttp://washboardabs.net/
<p>Thanks all! Your encouragement means a great deal to me (and was, of course, transparently what I was fishing for with the post ;) I've earmarked this weekend for preparing the sourcecode for public release on bitbucket, which basically entails adding an explanatory preamble to every sourcefile justifying its existence (along with an exceedingly brief GPL license notice).</p>
<p>Jef: in 1.0 DOSBox is tightly integrated into the Boxer process, and no longer a process of its own. In future I'll be migrating it to an arrangement whereby Boxer spawns (heavily customised) DOSBox processes while retaining the same fine-grained control over them; but quite simply I know dickall about multithreading and cross-process programming at the moment, so there's a steep learning curve before I can tackle that. Baby steps!</p>
A taste of Boxer 1.0tag:boxerapp.com,2009-12-06:/blog/id/37//comment_53542009-12-06T01:53:39+02:002009-12-06T01:53:39+02:00Martinhttp://martin.lite.nu
<p>The UI work looks amazing. Truly top notch. I never did get around to learning objC, Cocoa and all that. Maybe I'll have a look at some of the source when you release it.</p>
A taste of Boxer 1.0tag:boxerapp.com,2009-12-09:/blog/id/37//comment_53552009-12-09T20:59:15+02:002009-12-09T20:59:15+02:00ishashobar
<p>Great job! Keep up the good work! BTW would it be possible to add a machine selector to the inspector? It would be useful for those really old CGA games. Anyway great job!</p>
A taste of Boxer 1.0tag:boxerapp.com,2009-12-10:/blog/id/37//comment_53562009-12-10T06:48:05+02:002009-12-10T06:48:05+02:00Chip McK
<p>Wow!</p>
<p>Looks excellent</p>
A taste of Boxer 1.0tag:boxerapp.com,2009-12-10:/blog/id/37//comment_53582009-12-10T08:13:29+02:002009-12-10T08:13:29+02:00Alun Bestorhttp://washboardabs.net/
<p>Ishashobar - as mentioned I want to redesign the emulation settings workflow to make the choice of machine type integral to the configuration process, and I'm a bit wary of adding those selectors piecemeal in case I close the door on a better design (“good is the enemy of great”).</p>
<p>Another thing is that about the only time I personally have needed to change the machine type was from VGA to Tandy, for 80s games with Tandy sound support. I haven't yet run into a game that explicitly needed the CGA emulation mode and didn't work with the standard VGA - could you point me towards some games like this?</p>
A taste of Boxer 1.0tag:boxerapp.com,2009-12-16:/blog/id/37//comment_53672009-12-16T01:55:44+02:002009-12-16T01:55:44+02:00Smokingmamba
<p>This app is a dream come true. It baffles me this not being a commercial app, I'd love to see you being properly compensated for such great work. I've donated and suggest to anyone I show this to donate as well. Congratulations!</p>
A taste of Boxer 1.0tag:boxerapp.com,2009-12-18:/blog/id/37//comment_53682009-12-18T14:23:52+02:002009-12-18T14:23:52+02:00Alun Bestorhttp://washboardabs.net/
<p>Thanks very much! Boxer is and always will be free, both because DOSBox itself is free (thus I'm ethically and legally obliged do likewise) but moreover because I get all the compensation I need just hearing from people who love using Boxer. Well and the sweet, sweet donations of course.</p>
A taste of Boxer 1.0tag:boxerapp.com,2010-01-09:/blog/id/37//comment_53762010-01-09T17:39:37+02:002010-01-09T17:39:37+02:00ascagnelhttp://ascagnel.blogspot.com/
<p>Boxer was one of the first apps I installed after getting my Macbook, and its one of the few that isn't by Apple that's still on there (along with VLC and Twitteriffic).</p>
<p>Good job all around. And love the Sparkle updater built in to the newest build.</p>
A taste of Boxer 1.0tag:boxerapp.com,2010-01-14:/blog/id/37//comment_53962010-01-14T20:49:14+02:002010-01-14T20:49:14+02:00ishashobar
<p>some games used a cga monitor hack to show more colors than were actually available to cga. one of the games i remember off the top of my head is the pc booter version of Kings quest 1 and 2. mobygames have pictures with the monitor hacks applied. http://www.mobygames.com/game/pc-booter/kings-quest/screenshots
if the booters are run in vga mode the colors are just plain purple instead</p>
A taste of Boxer 1.0tag:boxerapp.com,2010-01-14:/blog/id/37//comment_53972010-01-14T22:05:55+02:002010-01-14T22:05:55+02:00Alun Bestorhttp://washboardabs.net/
<p>Aha, thanks for the tip! I'll look into this and play around with some games. Anyway certainly there's a niche for a CGA-mode machine setup then.</p>