D-Fend Reloaded is a graphical environment for DOSBox. DOSBox emulates a complete computer including the DOS commandline and allows to run nearly all old DOS based games on modern hardware with any of the newer Windows versions.

With DOSBox there is no need to worry about memory managers or free conventional RAM, but the setup of DOSBox is still a bit complicated. The configuration of DOSBox via textbased setup files might be difficult for beginners. D-Fend Reloaded may help and create these files for you. Additionally the D-Fend Reloaded installation package contains DOSBox (including all lanuage files currently available), so there is only one installation to be run and no need to link D-Fend Reloaded with DOSBox manually.

D-Fend Reloaded Features:
1. Easy start:
The D-Fend Reloaded installer provides everything you need to run old DOS games (D-Fend Reloaded GUI, DOSBox, language files, FreeDos commandline tools). During the first start of D-Fend Reloaded everything is set up automatically.

2. Searching and sorting games:
D-Fend Reloaded contains many service tools to keep the overview even in large game archives. Games can be filtered by categories like genre and year of publication, you can also conduct find-as-you-type searches. For every game you can setup a data folder for manuals etc.

3. Creating new profiles:
Besides using the normal profile editor, new profiles may be added by the profile wizard. Additionally templates for different game types are integrated which need only the name and the path of the game as input.

4. Managing profiles:
D-Fend Reloaded collects all information regarding a certain software in its profile (program directory, screenshot directory, manual directory, icon file etc.). Therefore complete games may be deinstalled using D-Fend Reloaded and games can be copied from one installation to another. D-Fend Reloaded is also able to build installer packes to transfer games to other computers. (To use this feature you need NSIS.) Additionally complete games can be packed to zip and 7z files by the builtin zip support for archiving or transfering.

5. Language support:
DOSBox and D-Fend Reloaded are multilingual. The installer package contains all currently available language files. D-Fend Reloaded automatically sets up the DOSBox keyboard layout which refers to the language choosen for D-Fend Reloaded.

6. Compability:
D-Fend Reloaded can read D-Fend and DBFrondend config files. D-Fend Reloaded is totally compatible with Windows Vista (in particular it runs without admin rights).

More highlights:
1. Games can be installed from zip files without any configuration..
2. D-Fend Reloaded may be installed in a portable operation mode (for USB-Sticks etc.).
3. Besides DOSBox you can also use ScummVM as emulator.
4. Also Windows-based games can be managed in D-Fend Reloaded.
5. With the integrated Bochs-FAT-Image-Creator you may create floppy and harddisk images to be used with DOSBox directly from the D-Fend Reloaded GUI.
6. D-Fend Reloaded can create images from CDs and floppy disks which can be used as drives in DOSBox.

What is DOSBox ?
DOSBox emulates an x86 PC including all hardware needed to run DOS programs. With this you can run nearly all of your old DOS games and programs on modern operating systems like Windows or Linux.

Even so DOSBox is easy to handle compared to most of the other emulators, there is no graphical environment to setup the hardware used by the games and if you want to run different games needing different hardware setups you need to keep different versions of the DOSBox configuration file and always need to start DOSBox using the right configuration file.

To make things easier for the user there a several frontends for DOSBox. They offer dialogs for setting up DOSBox for different games. Also some of them can handle additional data for the games (manual files and captured screenshots).

D-Fend Reloaded is a DOSBox frontend for the Windows plattform. Inside D-Fend Reloaded you can manage your games just like links in the start menu. Inside the profile editor you can setup every option DOSBox is offering. To make things even easier there is a profile adding wizard which will only ask you very few question and try to automatically setup all nessessary things for you. Addtionally D-Fend Reloaded can store additionally files (like manuals) together with each game and can manage and view/play captured screenshots, sound and videos. You can even use your captured screenshots in the games list instead of plain text links.

Long time ago there has been a freeware frontend called "D-Fend". But some day the development of this software has been stopped and it has been removed from the internet. D-Fend Reloaded is a complete rewrite of D-Fend. It is nearly 100% compatible with D-Fend (you can upate from D-Fend to D-Fend Reloaded by just replacing the software file if you want to). But by now D-Fend Reloaded has many new features D-Fend never had.

Adding games to D-Fend Reloaded
The text on this page will describe how to add games to D-Fend Reloaded. There are mainly two ways for adding new games: Completely automatically and wizardbased half manual. To add a new game, which is stored as a zip file, totally automatically, just drag the game zip file to the D-Fend Reloaded software window. The zip file will be extracted to a new created subfolder of the games directory and the profile will be created automatically (based on an auto setup template if there is a auto setup template matching to the game). If you want to influence the palce where the game files are stored and want to influence the profile creation process, you should add the game by the following two steps:
1. Copy the games files to the games folder
2. Add a profile for the new game

The license of this software is Free, you can free download and free use this game utility software.