NEWS (assembler)

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.

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.