DOSBox v0.64 Test WIP Released

[olaf]

AEP Emulation Page reports that Ipher released his test work-in-progress version of DOSBox version 0.64 yesterday. DOSBox is a multi-platform DOS emulator. Below are the changes in this version.

 

- Fixed FAT writing.

- Added some more missing DOS functions.

- Improved PIC so that it actually honours irq 2/9.

- Improved intelligent MPU-401 mode so that more games work with it.

- Some mouse fixes.

- Changed DMA transfers a bit so they bypass the paging tables.

- Added S3 XGA functionality.

- Improved paging so that read and write faults are handled differently.

- Rewrote exception handling a bit (no exception 0x0B with dos4gw anymore).

- Added IO exceptions in all but the dynamic core.

- Some ems improvements.

- Added midi-device selection code for the windows hosts.

- Fix crashes/segfaults related to the disabling of the pcspeaker.

- Added some more FILES=XX detection tricks.

- Fixed some vga detection schemes.

- Fixed screenshot corruption when using -noconsole in a read-only directory.

- Fix wrong scaled screenshots.

- Added some hidden file functions when using diskimages. (helps with cdrom detection schemes)

- Fixed a bug in the mixer code, that muted the music in certain games.

- Added an assembly fpu core.

- Made the shell more flexible for batch files.

- Check for unaligned memory acces fixes hangups on ARM processors

- Some 64 bit fixes.

- Added code to change configuration at runtime.

- Improved ADPCM emulation.

- Fixed a few cpu instructions.

- Always report vesa 2.0 and fix some colour issues with vesa games.

- Fix video mode 6.

- Improvements to the joystick emulation. 4 buttons are supported as well.

- Add VCPI emulation. No more ems=false with Origin games.

- Fixed a lot of things in the boot code. Most booters work now.

- Lots of improvements to the IPX emulation.

- Rewritten modem emulation. Should work with more games.

- Improvements to the dos memory managment routines.

- Add UMB (upper memory blocks) support.

- Emulate the pause key.

- Improve Composite CGA mode emulation.

- Lots of vga compatibility changes.

- Improved support for chained video modes.

- Improved mode and palete handling in cga modes.

- Mount accepts ~ now.

- Added a few of the EGA RIL functions.

- Added TandyDAC emulation.

- OS/2 support.

- Improved and speed up the dynamic cpu core.

- Fix some errors in the CD-ROM emulation layer.

- Added an automatic work-around for some graphics chipsets.

- Lots of bugfixes.

- Even more bugfixes.

You can visit Ipher's official web site here, and view the test page here.

Edited December 6, 2005 by olaf

[Agozer]

More like a DOS emulator.