How D-Fend works


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D-Fend's sole purpose is getting DOS games to run with DOSBox. In order to do this you need to create profiles. You can create profiles using:

1.The profile wizard (Beginner)  
Step be step guidance. Hides options not required to get a game running  
2.The profile editor (Advanced user)  
No guidance. Doesn't hide any options.  

There is one basic principle you must understand about creating profiles. Whenever you create a profile it is based on either a Template or your Default Configuration. I'll give a little example.

Say your default configuration is:

Video card   :   VGA
Cycles      :   10000

There are more settings but this will work just fine as an example.

   Example:

When you create a profile using the Wizard or the Profile Editor the Video card will be set to VGA and the Cycles will be set to 10000. The same is true for every settings. Of course, you can configure your Default Configuration so the settings may be different.  
 
Something to note:  
When you create a profile using the Wizard you will not see every setting. This is done on purpose to keep things simple. Even though you can't configure a setting in the Wizard that doesn't mean it's not set-up for you. When using the Wizard you can change certain settings and the blanks are filled up with the Default Configuration.  
 
This is not the case when you use the Profile Editor, that is, there are no blanks. When you use the Profile Editor to create a profile you'll have access to every setting available.  
 
In the Example above I only mentioned the Default Configuration but that's not the whole story. You could say the Default Configuration is the Default Template. What I mean by this is that templates work EXACTLY like the Default Configuration.

Unless you're the adventurous type I recommend you read the chapters dedicated to:




The Editors

In D-Fend there are three Editors:

1.Default Configuration (editor)  
2.Profile Editor  
3.Template Editor  

These editors are very similar in set-up and all share several Tab sheets. These shared tab sheets are discussed in a separate chapter.