diff --git a/system/dosbox/dosbox.SlackBuild b/system/dosbox/dosbox.SlackBuild
index 9d58c99982..f83f53c2e6 100644
--- a/system/dosbox/dosbox.SlackBuild
+++ b/system/dosbox/dosbox.SlackBuild
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 # ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 
 PRGNAM=dosbox
-VERSION=${VERSION:-0.73}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-0.74}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
@@ -53,11 +53,10 @@ elif [ "$ARCH" = "x86_64" ]; then
     SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -fPIC"
     LIBDIRSUFFIX="64"
 else
-  SLKCFLAGS="-O2"
-  LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
+    SLKCFLAGS="-O2"
+    LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
 fi
 
-set -e
 
 rm -rf $PKG
 mkdir -p $TMP $PKG $OUTPUT
@@ -86,10 +85,9 @@ CXXFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
 make DESTDIR=$PKG
 make install-strip DESTDIR=$PKG
 
-( cd $PKG/usr/man
-  find . -type f -exec gzip -9 {} \;
-  for i in $(find . -type l) ; do ln -s $(readlink $i).gz $i.gz ; rm $i ; done
-)
+
+find $PKG/usr/man -type f -exec gzip -9 {} \;
+for i in $(find $PKG/usr/man -type l) ; do ln -s $(readlink $i).gz $i.gz ; rm $i ; done
 
 # Add a desktop file to create a menu entry
 install -D -m 0644 $CWD/dosbox.desktop \
diff --git a/system/dosbox/dosbox.desktop b/system/dosbox/dosbox.desktop
index bd1e2aae41..3741d36079 100644
--- a/system/dosbox/dosbox.desktop
+++ b/system/dosbox/dosbox.desktop
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 [Desktop Entry]
-Encoding=UTF-8
 Version=1.0
 Name=dosbox
 Comment=DOS Emulator
diff --git a/system/dosbox/dosbox.info b/system/dosbox/dosbox.info
index 05cf6c98f5..8f4a2b2935 100644
--- a/system/dosbox/dosbox.info
+++ b/system/dosbox/dosbox.info
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 PRGNAM="dosbox"
-VERSION="0.73"
+VERSION="0.74"
 HOMEPAGE="http://dosbox.sourceforge.net"
-DOWNLOAD="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/dosbox/dosbox-0.73.tar.gz"
-MD5SUM="0823a11242db711ac3d6ebfff6aff572"
+DOWNLOAD="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/dosbox/dosbox-0.74.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="b9b240fa87104421962d14eee71351e8"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
-MAINTAINER="Michiel"
+MAINTAINER="Michiel van Wessem"
 EMAIL="michiel@slackbuilds.org"
-APPROVED="dsomero"
+APPROVED="rworkman"
diff --git a/system/dosbox/slack-desc b/system/dosbox/slack-desc
index 8132cb0d2e..24f222797b 100644
--- a/system/dosbox/slack-desc
+++ b/system/dosbox/slack-desc
@@ -10,10 +10,10 @@ dosbox: DOSbox (DOS emulator/virtual machine for X11 and Unix)
 dosbox: 
 dosbox: It allows you to play many of the old games you grew up loving, as
 dosbox: well as many apps designed to run on DOS.
-dosbox: 
-dosbox: 
-dosbox: 
-dosbox: 
-dosbox: 
-dosbox: 
-dosbox: 
+dosbox:
+dosbox:
+dosbox:
+dosbox:
+dosbox:
+dosbox:
+dosbox: