Stunts Installer v.0.1

[Duplode]

Since I discovered, just after joining the community, that VDMSound stole 10% of Stunts' speed in my PC for quite a few years, I've been wondering about ways to make usage of Stunts setting up and usage in a modern machine as simple and unobtrusive as possible, and how much of help it could be to potential newcomers. A  very simple idea would be to pick a Stunts folder, then grab DOSBox and some good frontend and wrap everything into a neat Nullsoft Installer (nsis.sourceforge.net). Yesterday I was able to give the concept a try, and produced a crude, very ad hoc installer, comprising ZakStunts non-boot CD package and DBGL frontend 0.60RC2 (taken from http://home.quicknet.nl/qn/prive/blankendaalr/dbgl), which conveniently already comes with DOSBox 0.71 integrated (all I had to add were the movie codecs for SDR-like stuff).

Being an image worth a thousand words, below are some attached screenshots. Discuss at will, and PM me if you have interest on seeing the test version live (webmasters welcome!) ...

[CTG]

Useful.

[zaqrack]

very much useful indeed!

We should perhaps update the competition tracks in the ZS CD archive to a current state, and release it with this project.

[Mark L. Rivers]

Really a good project, well done Duplode! 

[Krys TOFF]

Good idea.

[Duplode]

Toyed a little with visuals today. Here is what could be a cute opening screen:



With the "Modern UI", a custom header would look like this:



There seems to be no way to change the window background from grey to something else under said UI. That propmted a test with so-called "UltraModern UI" - that conveniently offers a green background, which is quite a bit cleaner:



Later I'll look for a way to get rid of that questionable pink font...

[Paleke]

It looks cool anyway   I'll try it later, perhaps I can make DOSBox work reasonable this time.