Version0.74

This is the current release

(previous release)

Changes

• 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).