Hello, I wanted to ask whether this is a personal problem only I have, or if not whether there is a workaround to this problem.

I have a DosBox 0.74 installation in a folder on my harddrive (E:\Emu\DosBox). It seems however that all GOG Games come bundled with DosBox 0.73 and refuse to acknowledge the 0.74 installation if I disable their own DosBox under the install options and point them at that folder. Specifically they say DosBox is either too old or not present in that folder.

This doesn't really pose a functional problem in that I can't play the games, and ofc I can just have a secondary 0.73 install and point each game at that, or let each of them install their own copy, but I'd be curious to know whether there is a workaround to get the games to recognize the 0.74 install.
The release is from May 2010, so it strikes me as odd that it's not being included yet.


Anyway, not a functional problem at all, happy with every game I got, but curious why this is the way it is, and whether there's a way around it.

Any help? Thank you. :)

It's a known issue; the solution so far is to install the game with the older version of DosBox and then just copy the new install over that one :)

The installers are crap, no surprise they don't recognize it. ;)

I was looking for a way to avoid having extra copies of DOSBox in games' folders too, while still being able to keep my main DOSBox install updated.

This conversation here answers my initial question, so I'm just posting to indicate that an official response/report on the issue would be appreciated by me as well.

Well, I keep the dosbox exe from the GOG installer someplace safe that way when I install a game I just rename my real dosbox and copy the GOG one to replace it. The installer picks up the dosbox path, installs, and afterwards I just delete the fake exe and rename my real one back ;)

This is definitely the best way.

What I do is open the DOSBox 0.72 installer with 7Zip, paste the .exe into my DOSBox folder (I use a single DOSBox install), then install the game. While installing, I paste 0.74's executable back in.

Isn't that pretty much the same as what pops117 proposed?

I'm not sure what I did to deserve you taking my defense 17 days after he posted that ;)

(I love you too!)

Alternatives are always good!

I came back to the thread because I was installing Tyrian 2000 and I couldn't remember what Vagabond's suggestion was. I was a little disappointed to discover it was just a paraphrase of yours. :P

Well... by pretty much the same I mean exactly the same. ;)
It's what I ended up doing though.

Has there been progress on the topic? Does the installer recognize newer versions now?