DOSBox v0.61

posted in Emulator Release by narvick on Feb 3rd, 2004

DOSBox, a great PC/DOS emulator, has been updated today. Only the Windows and sources are updated as of now, though. Changes in this version:

Added a beta dynamic CPU for x86 hosts (very unstable)
Added OpenGL and hardware overlay display output
Rewrote the VGA screen updates to go in lines
Added paging and v86 support to CPU emulation
Added a config option to simulate a certain type of machine
Added Hercules graphics emulation
Made CGA/TANDY modes more compatible
Updated textmode drawing routines to support blinking colors
Fixed VESA set page function that was documented wrong
Fixed some wrongly emulated CPU opcodes
Improved exception handling
Debugger: fixes; logging of gdt, lgt, idt, new commands
Fixed some mscdex issues (drive letter header error, added get directory entry)
Added/fixed some BIOS functions
Added some rarely used XMS functions
Implemented GUS emulation
Added 16-bit DMA support
Fixed many small bugs in filehandling routines
Many small FPU fixes
Some keyboard improvements
Some Timer and CMOS/RTC fixes
Lots of mouse fixes
Enabled internal modem
Made the DOS parsing routines a bit more flexible
Added Subst
Added cdrom ioctl support for Linux
Many internal DOS fixes: memory/files/datastructures
Get some help from c2woody in allowing more than 1 IRQ being served
Disabled DPMI (not need anymore. DOSBox handles almost every extender)
Search configfile in $HOME directory if none present in current directory
Added another way to switch to protected mode
Fixed some odd badly documented behavior with PSP/DTA
Added some warnings on opening of readonly files in writemode (DOS default)
Many shell enhancements
Fixed a Win32 specific bug dealing with filenames starting with a "."
Fixed some bugs with the directory structure: not found/can't save errors

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Thanks to kees for the news

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