Firstly, i wanna say that i think it's great you guys go through the extra effort of individually wrapping DOSBox on all the games that need it. That's a great way to allow those who aren't familiar with it, or those who just don't know how DOSBox works.

However, for those of us who have been using it for years, and have a large DOSBox library of games ready to play from one single instance of the emulator, it makes it difficult to install one of the GOG games into the setup we've already created. I think it would be great to offer 2 different install packages, one with the wrapper already configured and ready to play, and one that just places the game directory on your desktop (or wherever you want it). That way those of us who just want to add the game directory to our library of DOSBox games can do so without going through the extra steps of installing the game, copying the files we want out, then uninstalling it to get rid of the extra stuff.

The installer does seem to have an option for this, however i could not get it to work - it just refused to let me continue the installation without checking the box to install DOSBox. (The installer also seems to have layout issues - text appearing where it shouldn't, etc - as though it is a website being viewed in a browser that's way too old to view the site. That's a different issue altogether tho, hehe)

As a side note, i love this site. And kudos to you for getting the old EA games (or companies eaten by EA). I honestly never thought that would happen. Seeing the old Origin and Bullfrog games on here made me start drooling instantly. :)

It's already set up so you can use your own instance of DOSBox, it's just implemented badly and doesn't recognise 0.74. The way I (and a few other people) get around it is by keeping older versions of DOSBox in the DOSBox directory with different names. When installing a GOG that uses DOSBox, I change the name of the current version to dosbox.exe.new or something similar and change the name of one of the old ones to dosbox.exe. Once the installer has recognised it and I've installed the game, I change the names back.

It's a bit annoying, but there you go... they should really make the installer just go with any .exe you tell it and just trust you.

EDIT: Hmm, I could probably make a batch file to change the names. I should look into that...

Heh, my DOSBox setup is already so full of batch files it's ridiculous. Then add into the fact that i end up having to edit the batch files that the GOG team creates to get the game to run well (to fit my already complicated system) and it's like a maze of files calling on other files calling on even more.

Still, interesting idea. I might just give it a shot - what's one more batch file? ;P
Thanks for the input.

You can extract GOG installers with Universal Extractor (for best results download the latest innounp to replace the outdated version it comes with).

Ah hah! Just what i was looking for! Thanks a lot, that'll make things much easier in the future.