DBoy Runner 0.2 Documentation


I decided to make DBoy Runner because I hate typing out long command lines.
You might say frontends are lame, but it sure the hell does save alot of
time when you could be playing your games.  This is coded in Visual Basic
5.0 Enterprise Edition under the Windows NT5/Windows 2000 Professional Beta 3
RC0 operating system.

I whipped this up real quick, so don't expect it to be perfect.  I've tried
to test this as much as possible, but I may have missed something.


-=[ Table of Contents ]=-
        I.      Explicit Instructions
        II.     What's Been Done
        III.    What is Still to Come?
        IV.     Credits
        V.      Contact Information

-=[ I.  Explicit Instructions ]=-
1) Ok, when running the SETUP program, it will have a default installation
   directory of X:\Program Files\DBOY_RUN\.  This is the INCORRECT place to
   install this product.  Please install it in the same directory where the
   DBOY.EXE is located.  If you do not put it in that same directory as
   DBOY.EXE, the program will fail to run properly.


-=[ II. What's Been Done ]=-
1) Regular & Game Boy Color ROM support
2) Convert Long File Names to DOS short file names so DBoy can parse it
3) ... not much else ...


-=[ III. What is Still to Come? ]=-
1) Options screen
2) Full DBoy command line support
3) ROM file copy/move/delete screen
4) ROM information by reading the ROM header
5) ZIP support is a definate MAYBE
6) When I am 100% happy with this frontend, I will release the source for
   it so you people can see how easy it is to write a frontend to your
   favorite DOS based emulator in Visual Basic.


-=[ IV. Credits ]=-
Zophar @ EFnet IRC      (http://www.zophar.net/)
Conjurer @ EFnet IRC    (http://www.davesclassics.com/)
Countless lamers asking for a frontend.  :)
Microsoft for Windows 98 and Visual Basic


-=[ V.  Contact Information ]=-
I am usually on EFnet IRC in #emu and/or #oldwarez as [NS], ns_ or ns.
Email-1: ns@serv.net
Email-2: ns@winblowz.com