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  • Home / Linux / System / Emulators / DOSBox / Changelog

    DOSBox 0.73 - Changelog


    What's new in DOSBox 0.73:

    · Add two new opl2+opl3 emulators. (better speed, different implementation approach)
    · Improved DRO recording/better file structure.
    · Add EGA emulation.
    · Add special vga machine mode. Supports more of the exotic tricks like changing the palette during screen updates, 9x16 fonts etc.
    · Added special machine modes for the following svga cards: S3, Paradise,Tseng
    · Fix problems with the vga split line feature.
    · Improve vesa emulation.
    · Add optional selection of old vesa mode for games that don't work with certain vesa features.
    · Improve video BIOS emulation to behave more like a real bios.
    · Fixes for emulated 4bpp graphics modes.
    · Fixes to paging system.
    · Various fixes and improvements for the recompiling core.
    · Add arm backend for the recompiling core.
    · Add some mscdex quirks when dealing with files that are exactly 8.3 long.
    · Small fixes to batch file handling.
    · Small fixes to the XMS memory handling.
    · Various fixes for aligned memory on hosts that want it.
    · Various improvements to the mouse.
    · Fixes and small speed ups to the debugger.
    · Fix and improve lot's of compilation problems. (curses detection, GCC 3.4 and GCC 4.X fixes)
    · Added some basic auto keyboard layout handling. (windows only currently)
    · Add basic support for evdev keyboard driver.
    · Various fixes to the timer. (improve mode 2 timer changes, implement mode 1, improve gate2 handling)
    · Add audio extraction and mci audio support. Should enable CDROM audio for Vista and adds volume control.
    · Improve the directory cache speed a lot, especially with mounting slow media like network paths.
    · Various fixes to the create temporary file call.
    · Don't keep batchfiles open during execution. Allows rewriting of the active batchfile. (menu programs use this trick sometimes)
    · Fix problems with filenames with 2 extensions.
    · Add some more lowlevel dos tables.
    · Fixes to hercules emulation.
    · Fix flag handling for special case of ROR.
    · Make the batchfile handling in regard to IF more flexible.
    · Fixes to scrolling/panning feature.
    · Add prefetch queue emulation.
    · Make the emulated cpu type selectable. This is mainly the identification commands and the way paging works.
    · Some special EMS functionality added. (OS handles, zero-page handling)
    · Improve support for EMS when booting a different OS.
    · Improve cdrom speed detection by games.
    · Improve stability of cycle guessing code, when there is background activity.
    · Fix various mscdex and cdrom detection schemes.
    · Added Coremidi support on Mac OS X.
    · Improve support for DOS devices when used to detect the existance of directories in various ways.
    · Add IRQ 2 emulation on VRET. (ega only)
    · Added video parameter table and video state functionality.
    · Increase default freespace to 250 MB.
    · Some fixes to the fat filesystem handling for disk images.
    · Some soundblaster fixes and command additions.
    · Fix mixer 16bit direct transfers on bigendian hosts.




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