DOSBox 0.71 Released

[Jorpho]

Not the giant leap forward that 0.70 was, but nonetheless, Huzzah!

http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/

[norkusa]

I tried messing around with DOSBox before on my Mac but I'm too stupid to figure it out. I always got stuck on the part where you have to select a hard drive space for it to read/write to.

[kaedesdisciple]

I tried messing around with DOSBox before on my Mac but I'm too stupid to figure it out. I always got stuck on the part where you have to select a hard drive space for it to read/write to.

I messed around with it on my PPC Macs. I got it to work, but it was too slow to be useful. BTW here are the specs of each machine:

G4 1.2 GHz
1.25 GB RAM
OSX 10.3.9

Dual Processor G5 2.0 GHz
2 GB RAM
OSX 10.4.9

Not sure if I'm doing anything wrong, but it runs like molasses.

[Jorpho]

0.70 introduced a remarkable speed improvement. Perhaps you were using an older version?

[oesiii]

DOSBox .70 works great on the newer Intel Macs but its a pain in the butt to configure. None of the frontends are up to snuff yet. I usually just fire up WinXP in VM or Bootcamp and run DOSBox that way, works everytime.

Glad to see a new version to try out.

[Trebuken]

Tried it out with D.O.G. front-end under Windows Vista (64-bit). Works great.

Speed issues are adjustable as long as you have a newer machine. Probably depends on the game though.

[SeverThe7th]

ive got .63 still.

I hope they make dosbox compatible with Magic Carpet 2 and the sound compatible in master of magic.

Edit: Hmmm.. apparently they did

[Jorpho]

ive got .63 still.

I hope they make dosbox compatible with Magic Carpet 2 and the sound compatible in master of magic.

Maybe it already is compatible with those games. But it will be kind of hard for you to tell if you keep using 0.63, though, won't it?

[norkusa]

DOSBox .70 works great on the newer Intel Macs but its a pain in the butt to configure. None of the frontends are up to snuff yet. I usually just fire up WinXP in VM or Bootcamp and run DOSBox that way, works everytime.

Yeah, I'm using an Intel iMac but I do have a partition for XP. Is the PC version of DOSBox really that easy to set up? No need to mess with that imgmount like in OSX?

[Kitsune Sniper]

Yeah, I'm using an Intel iMac but I do have a partition for XP. Is the PC version of DOSBox really that easy to set up? No need to mess with that imgmount like in OSX?

Nope, I don't even set up hard drive images, though it's possible. All I do is copy a bunch of files to a folder, tell DOSBox to treat that folder as a hard drive, and start playing.

[oesiii]

Nope, I don't even set up hard drive images, though it's possible. All I do is copy a bunch of files to a folder, tell DOSBox to treat that folder as a hard drive, and start playing.

Ditto. Real easy to get working on the PC side. There also has been several good gui-based frontends on the PC side, sometimes it take a little tweaking to get a frontend like dfend to work with new, updated versions of DosBox but the forums are great for getting config tips.