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Von KIDH

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Der OpenSource DOS-Emulator DOSBox ist kürzlich in der Version 0.73 erschienen. Das Programm emuliert nicht nur einfach den DOS-Modus, sondern auch gleich die passende Hardware: CPUs (286/386 und deren Modi), Grafikkarten, Soundkarten usw. Mit DOSBox lassen sich die meisten DOS-Programme problemlos auf heutigen Rechnern ausführen.


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Release Notes:
  • 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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