** 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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