NEWS (Программа к лабораторным работам по цифровой электронике)

0.72

- Fixed unitialized variable in joystick. (Fixes crashes on Vista and

Mac OS X)

- Some bugfixes and speedups to the 64 bit recompiling core.

- Fixed sign flag on soundblaster dma transfers (Space Quest 6 intro)

- Fixed a bug in keyboard layout processing code and fixed certain

layouts.

- Fixed Dreamweb.

- Improved speed unlocking when running cycles=max.

- Fixed a crash related to the tab completion in the shell.

- Improved aspect correction code. Should now be like how a real monitor

handles it.

- Fixed a bug in the xms status report code. (Blake Stone 1.0 shareware)

- Added a lot more keyboard layouts.

- Fix crash related to changing the scaler before a screen was created.

- Hopefully fixed compilation on *bsd.

- Enabled auto cpu core selection for recompiling core as well.

- Made the used joystick selectable when 4axis is specified.

- Added some hints for inexperienced DOS users to the shell.

0.71

- Add a new recompiling cpu core, which should be easier to port.

- Add 64 bit version of the recompiling core.

- Add mipsel 32 bit version of the recompiling core.

- Fix a few small problems with FCBs. (fixes Jewels of darkness and

cyrus chess)

- Raise some more exceptions. (fixes vbdos)

- Fix a few problems with the dynamic core. (fixes Inner Words,

Archmimedean Dynasty and others)

- Improve/Fix fallback code for certain graphics cards.

- Fix a few cd audio related bugs.

- Add an undocumented MSCDEX feature. (Fixes Ultimate Domain)

- Fix some pcspeaker mode. (fixes Test Drive and similar games)

- Improve dos keyinput handling. (fixes Wing Commander 3 exit dialog)

- Remove Exit condition on fully nested mode. (fixes some demo)

- Add image file size detection.

- Add/Fix some ansi codes. (fixes PC Larn and certain versions of

infocom games)

- Several general DOS fixes. (fixes nba95, hexit and various other games)

- Add some valid input checks. (fixes 3d body adventure and similar

games)

- Fix digital joystick centering problem.

- Reenable textmode 54 and 55.

- Fix a pelmask problem with univbe 5.0 lite. (fixes Panzer General)

- Fix minor mixer underflow.

- Some general image and bios disk emulation fixes.

- Hopefully fix compilation on BSD and darwin.

- Try using ioctl cdrom access by default if possible.

- Fix some svga detection routine. (fixes Grandest Fleet 2 and Bobby Fischer

Teaches Chess)

- You can now close DOSBox using the status window in win32.

- Add support for NX enabled systems.

- Fix a casting error which only showed with certain compilers. (fixes

various games under mac os x and 64 bit linux)

- Improve timer and add gate 2 support. (fixes various games and

joystick problems)

- Improve mouse. Add undocumented backdoor. (fixes Last half of Darkness,

PC-BLOX and others)

- Add/improve support for ~ and ~username in all commands.

- Fix a font problem with the pcjr/tandy. (fixes personal deskmate 2)

- Change dma routine a bit. (fixes ticks in sound in various games)

- Allow read-only diskimages to be booted. (fixes various booter

games)

- Add basic hidden file support on cdrom images. (fixes Player

Manager 2)

- Add some rarely used functionality to the int10 mode setup. (fixes

WW2 Battles of the South pacific)

- Add ability to force scaler usage.

- Speed up flag generation and make it more 386-like.

- Some colourful feedback in the mapper.

- General code cleanup.

0.70

- Improve register handling and support with XMS.

- Fix some issues with deleting open files.(windows only issue)

- Add dummy LPT1 class. (windows only issue)

- Improve some of the internal dos commands. (choice, copy and shift)

- Improve ROM area. (for games that use it for random numbers or

overwrite it as some sort of detection thing)

- Improve compatibility of dynamic core by making it handle certain

pagefaults earlier.

- Move internal dos tables around so we have more umb memory.

- Add some dos tables.

- Dynamic core supports io exceptions.

- Move some interrupt handlers to XT Bios locations.

- Add a dynamic fpu on x86.

- Improve fpu on non-x86.

- Trapflag gets strict priority over hardware IRQs.

- Trapflag support for the dynamic core.

- Add dummy TRx handling.

- Fix a few rarely used character functions.

- Improve auto cycle guessing code.

- Improve and extend the joystick support.

- Add autofire support.

- Improve the mapper so you can map keys to the joystick and vice versa.

- A few game specific video card fixes.

- Fix some 64 bit cpu bugs.

- Add support for certain cdrom detection schemes.

- Improve HSG/Red Book support.

- Improve MSCDEX.

- Improve dynamic core support under intel macs.

- Add basic support for clipper programs.

- Add support for different keyboard layouts.

- Add auto core guessing.

- Fix a few flags bugs.

- Fix a few small cpu bugs.

- Improve soundblaster detection rate by various programs.

- Improve EMS emulation. (allow mapping of non standard regions)

- Improve keyboard input codes on various OS-es.

- Fix problems with filenames having stackdata in them.

- Changed a few basic operations in DOSBox so they take emulated time.

- Improve dos ioctl functions.

- Extend cpu core so they are capable of detecting and raising a few

more exception types.

- Improve DOS functions when dealing with virtual drive.

- Improve FAT drives.

- Better handling of volume-labels in file functions.

- Image disk cycling capability. (prompt)

- Try to reduce the impact of using an analog joystick.

- Several measures to avoid code invalidation on certain types

of self modification in the dynamic core.

- Add dynamic core memory function inlining.

- A few small mouse improvements. (some games are using things they

shouldn't)

- Add nullmodem emulation.(h-a-l-9000)

- Some small cga and hercules fixes.

- Add more scalers (hq2x/hq3x/sai). (Kronuz)

- Change configuration file loading support. It now supports

multiple configuration files.

- Make dynamic core capable of running some win32s programs.

- Fix and add some rare soundblaster modes. (Srecko)

- Better soundblaster mixer controls. (Srecko)

- Make soundblaster installation under windows much easier.

- Add device control channel handling.

- GEMMIS support (ems under windows).

- Support more colours in win 3. (vasyl)

- Don't show unmounted drives in windows filemanager.

- Fix some bugs in the int13 handler.

- Simulate some side-effects of bios interrupt handlers on flags.

- Add IPX functions needed by netbios.

- Make ports take emulated time.

- Tabcompletion is now aware of the CD command.

- Add suppport for the dac pel mask.

- Fixes to hercules emulation, better detection and bank switching.

- Fixes to tandy emulation, 640x200x16 mode and different sizes bank.

- EGA/VGA memory changes detection for faster rendering.

- Gus 16 bit fixes.

- Many timer improvements.

- Some pcjr fixes.

- Some booter fixes.

- Many small fixes.

0.65