DOSBox 0.74 Released!

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DOSBox 0.74

DOSBox Manual

 

DOSBox 0.74 has been released!

 

Here is an overview of the changes:

 

* Several small game specific fixes/hacks/support. (Offensive, Roadhog, GTA installer, Kingdom O' Magic soundcard detection, Pirate booter, Armored Fist installer)

* Add the S3-specific 640x480 256 color mode. (fixes regression in "Wooden Ships and Iron Men" and "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream")

* Fix a stack overflow that could crash DOSBox.

* Add fake microphone input. (fixes Talking Parrot)

* Modify adlib turn off code, so that it doesn't turn off in cases where the same sound is repeated over and over again.

* Several small fixes to the CDROM audio code.(HOMM2, Redneck Rampage and others)

* Several improvements to the CDROM emulation code. (fixes Alpha Storm and GT Racing 97)

* Some small CPU fixes that might fix something.

* Handle opcode 0xff subcode 7 as invalid instruction. (fixes dif-2 & others)

* Some hercules fixes. (Testdrive)

* Improve support for blanked parts that wrap around to the start of the screen. (fixes Magic Circle demo and Sid&Al)

* Remove old OPL cores as the new ones seem to work very nicely.

* Modify movie recording code so that the movies aren't corrupt when you exit dosbox without stopping the movie.

* Change RGB3x scaler to look more pretty.

* Improve initial register values compatility of the GUS.

* Added autodetection for Gameblaster. (games can find it now)

* Change render preferences a bit to be more compatible with Windows 7.

* Add DOS fixes to terminate program. (fixes Fortune Teller)

* Add FFREEP. (fixes Trucks)

* Improve FPU ST80 in C mode when writing zero. (fixes Antigok)

* Add special int10 scanline function. (fixes mz700 and probably lots of games that mess with them)

* Fix scrolling in rarely used video modes. (fixes Orphee)

* Modify game specific hacks a bit so that Kick off 3 works again.

* Lots of fixes to the INT10 video parameter table. (Seven spirits of ra and others)

* Add VGA blanking in machine=vgaonly. (used by Alien Carnage)

* CGA, PCJr, Tandy: Add video blanking, change display start latch timing, sync pulse width correction.

* PCJr, Tandy: implement vertical retrace interrupt.

* PCJr, CGA: line-by-line video emulation.

* PCJr: support on-screen change of color modes 4medium to 16low. (used by Ghostbusters booter)

* Hercules: Add green and amber monochrome support.

* All machines: only update the video timing when needed. (Jungle Hunt, others that synchronize to the video screen might profit)

* Several small DOS fixes.

* Some UMB related fixes. (The Legacy without UMB)

* Fix version number of DSP for SB 1.5. (fixes a few games)

* Several VGA emulation improvements. (Allertone football manager)

* Some Tandy fixes. (Mech Warrior)

* Small improvements and fixes to the OPL emulation.

* Add low level Tandy DAC emulation.

* Some EMS fixes. (fixes Mortal Kombat and others)

* Change SoundBlaster DSP reset mechanism, add sb irq acknowledge logic. (fixes stmik-based applications)

* Some interrupt pointer location modifications. (fixes Tinker Tales)

* Some fixes to the BOOT code. (fixes Last Mission)

* Respect write-only file information. (fixes Champions of Zulala)

* Some RTC fix. (fixes Tully Bodine and others)

* Improve mouse emulation to work better with Water World.

* Hopefully fix the translation of the configuration file.

* Speed up and fixes for the recompiler core. (pitfall2 pcjr)

* Change memory start location. (fixes 7th Guest installer)

* Several fixes to the batch file handling. (Shift and use the typed first %0 instead of the parsed %0)

* Improve file redirection and redirected line ends. (fixes Phantasmagoria 2 DOS installer)

* Fix compilation with new MAC os X version.

* Add 16C550A FIFO support to the serial port emulation.

* Improve modem emulation to get higher speeds.

* Change default samplerates to 44100, blocksize to 1024 and prebuffer to 20, so that hopefully certain soundcards produce more fluent sound playback.

* Add some rarely used, but for some games critical flags to the internal commands.

* Add -userconf flag, so that the userspecific configuration can easily be used together with -conf configfile.

* Improve internal timing with repeating timers (especially with the dynamic core).