May 12th, 2010· 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).
May 28th, 2009· 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:S3ParadiseTseng
· 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.
December 8th, 2008· 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.
December 8th, 2008· 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.
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