Hi! Forwarding from the BTTR-Software.de version:
There is a new update of the virtual PC software
called Bochs :-)

> Bochs version 2.6.11 available (Announce)
> 
> posted by rr(R) Homepage E-mail, Berlin, Germany, 15.01.2020, 20:17
> 
> The Bochs Project released version 2.6.11 on 05 January 2020. It is a bugfix 
> release.
> 
> Summary of changes since version 2.6.10:
> - General
>   - Added 64-bit support to the NSIS installer script
>   - Several fixes in the build system based on Debian patches
> 
> - CPU / CPUDB
>   - Bugfixes for CPU emulation correctness
>     - Many critical bugfixes for Protection Keys, AVX512*, VMX/SVM, SHA, GFNI 
> emulation
>   ! Implemented CET (Control Flow Enforcement Technology) emulation according 
> to Intel SDM rev071
> 
> - I/O Devices
>   - Added missing Cirrus SVGA bitblt feature "transparent color compare"
>   - Some fixes in HPET emulation (patch by Oleg)
>   - Fixed disk image lock mechanism in the USB MSD case
> 
> - BIOS / VGABIOS
>   - LGPL'd VGABIOS updated to version 0.7b (Fixed VESA extension 'read EDID'
>     for Bochs VBE and Cirrus)
>   - Updated SeaBIOS ROM image to current version 1.13.0
>   - Added SeaVGABIOS ROM image for the Cirrus adapter
>   - Bochs BIOS built to work with CPU level 5 again
> 
> Home page: http://bochs.sourceforge.net/
> Official announcement: Bochs 2.6.11 released
> Detailed Changelog: 
> http://svn.code.sf.net/p/bochs/code/tags/REL_2_6_11_FINAL/bochs/CHANGES
> Download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bochs/files/

For DOS users, mostly the VGA and BIOS updates sound relevant.

In addition, a hack to make Bochs run on XP is here:

https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=16192

Regards, Eric



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