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    Default DOSBox 0.73 released

    For all your boxing needs.
    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.
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    Yeah, I've been using for a couple weeks, it's highly recommended! The new graphics options are great, and it does seem slightly faster as well.

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    I love this emulator. The only way to play good old commander keen on my vista machine ugh...

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    Quote Originally Posted by FamicomFreak View Post
    I love this emulator. The only way to play good old commander keen on my vista machine ugh...
    Which is funny, because the only way you can get the game legally these days also includes an older, outdated version of DOSBox!
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