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diff --git a/system/dosbox-dev/README b/system/dosbox-dev/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..7a7e9f3c7e --- /dev/null +++ b/system/dosbox-dev/README @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +DOSbox is a DOS emulator/virtual machine for X11 and Unix. +It allows you to play many of the old games you grew up loving, +as well as many apps designed to run on DOS. + +SDL_sound is an optional dependency. + +This is the latest-or-almost development version, hence it is not labeled +stable by upstream. +dosbox-dev does conflict with the stable dosbox 0.74 Slackbuild, and isn't +meant to be used alongside. +If you want to have both dosbox and dosbox-dev packages installed set +DOSBOXDEV=yes, and man page, icon, desktop entry and dosbox binary will be +renamed dosbox-dev. + +If you want to use another revision of the SVN codebase, +get it and put it in a directory called dosbox-dev, then create a +dosbox-dev-0.74.rXXXX.tar.xz archive. +After that you can do REVISION=XXXX ./dosbox-dev.SlackBuild +There'll be some available at : +https://sourceforge.net/projects/slackbuildsdirectlinks/files/dosbox/ + +For example for the latest available revision : +# svn checkout https://svn.code.sf.net/p/dosbox/code-0/dosbox/trunk dosbox-dev +# REVISION=$(cd dosbox-dev && LANG=C svn info | grep "Revision"| cut -d' ' -f2) +# tar cfa dosbox-dev-0.74.r$REVISION.tar.xz dosbox-dev/ +# ./dosbox-dev.SlackBuild |