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Bug 3420

Summary: hg #7991 broke DOSBox on OS X
Product: SDL Reporter: Dominik Reichardt <sdl-bugzilla>
Component: mainAssignee: Ryan C. Gordon <icculus>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2 CC: icculus
Version: HG 1.2   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Mac OS X (All)   

Description Dominik Reichardt 2016-09-06 21:21:14 UTC 
DOSBox still uses SDL 1.2 and I'm providing daily snapshots for a while now and thus have been dependent on the post SDL 1.2.15 fixes.

DOSBox usually uses a config file in ~/Library/Preferences but if you place a config named dosbox.conf in the same folder as the app bundle, DOSBox will use that config instead.

I only just today realized that this is no longer working and traced it back to revision 7991.

So a built of SDL 1.2 branch before rev 7991 allows DOSBox to launch with the in-same-folder config on OS X 10.6 - 10.12 (tested on VMs of 10.6, 10.8, 10.9 and real 10.12 machine).


Still correctly working DOSBox https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7737184/Dosbox/DOSBox-0.74-1.dmg and my broken SVN built at https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7737184/Dosbox/Dosbox-Snapshot-bad.dmg

A test config is a plain text file, must be named dosbox.conf and can just have these two lines:
[autoexec]
FOOBAR

(it will say illegal command FOOBAR when launched)
Comment 1 Ryan C. Gordon 2016-09-07 22:18:53 UTC 
This _should_ be fixed now with:

    https://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/rev/0c1a8b0429a9

...let me know if this fixes it for you!

--ryan.
Comment 2 Dominik Reichardt 2016-09-08 10:59:11 UTC 
YES! Thanks a lot for this fast fix!