D-Fend Reloaded

D-Fend Reloaded is an application which gives you the possibility to run DOS based games on today’s computer systems using a DOSBox environment.

Basically, it’s an emulator that keeps a chunk of gaming history alive. The application is fairly easy to use, depending on how far you want to go with it. To be able to configure DOSBox you need to be at least a bit familiar with the text based setup files that it uses but luckily for you, D-Fend Reloaded can help you create them.

If you want to play a game to see how it was ‘back in the day’ or get acquainted with one you used to play several years back, then D-Fend Reloaded can make it happen. To add a game you first need to find one and that shouldn’t be a problem since there are several websites that offer large amounts of them, ready for downloading.

D-Fend Reloaded allows you to add a game in manual mode or through the use of a wizard. The latter provides step by step instructions which takes just a couple of minutes for a game to install.

From an interface point of view, D-Fend Reloaded is focused on looking more like a DOS game library. It comes with several predefined categories such as genre, developer, year and license but you can very well add your own types. For any installed game, you can take screenshots while playing, record audio and video and take notes.

D-Fend Reloaded also allows you to edit certain features of a game. You can customize its profile, adapt a virtual hardware configuration for it and even enable joystick use for it. Moreover, you can run a key mapper, view a history of all the played games and, why not, apply cheats to a saved game.

In closing, with the above to consider and a lot more to discover about D-Fend Reloaded, it’s safe to say that it is an application that can definitely offer you hours upon hours of fun.