** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: dosbox
  
- a new version is out, after quite a while. please upgrade. changelog:
- http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=685514&group_id=52551.
+ changelog for 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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new upstream release - DOSBox 0.73
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/382024
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