DOS ain't dead - BOCHS 2.5 released 2011-11-29

DOS386

15.12.2011, 08:57

BOCHS 2.5 released 2011-11-29 (Announce)

http://sourceforge.net/projects/bochs/files/bochs/2.5/

What's new:

* 10% speedup (untested)
* many enhancements in CPU emulation (not that useful for DOS)
* some fixes in HD and VGA/VESA
* added ES1370 soundcard emulation (the old buggy one ??? MPXPLAY and Jeff's code support ES1371 only ...)
* some bugs fixed

NOT tested in DOS

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DOS386

15.01.2012, 04:38

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BOCHS 2.5.1 released 2012-01-06

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fixed some bugs ;-) (untested)

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DOS386

16.01.2012, 06:38

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BOCHS 2.5.1 released 2012-01-06 | DOS

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BOCHS 2.5.1 still works in DOS (this is not obvious, recent versions of FFMPEG, FFMPEG2DIRAC, MPLAYER, INNOUNP, ... don't) ... one missing import, no new problems found, speedup not tested, old problems not (?) fixed, ... :-)

http://sourceforge.net/projects/bochs/files/bochs/2.5.1/

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DOS386

25.09.2012, 10:52

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BOCHS 2.6 released 2012-09-02 | DOS

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http://sourceforge.net/projects/bochs/files/bochs/2.6/

What's new (untested):

* another 10% speedup (if this happens another 18 times, BOCHS xx.yy.zz will one day be 6.7 times faster than 2.4 :-) )
* improved VGA
* added support for PC speaker (probably not useful in DOS)
* ...
* ???

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DOS386

14.04.2013, 16:46

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BOCHS 2.6.1 released 2013-04-09 | DOS

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http://sourceforge.net/projects/bochs/files/bochs/2.6.1/

What's new (untested):

* Added and improved some fancy instructions (RDRAND/WRRAND, ...)
* some hardware fixes
* ...
* ???

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This is a LOGITECH mouse driver, but some software expect here
the following string:*** This is Copyright 1983 Microsoft ***

DOS386

17.04.2013, 12:31

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BOCHS 2.6.1 released 2013-04-09 | DOS | test

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> What's new (untested)

"Bochs-2.6.1.exe" 4'633'096 | 146 Files in 8 Dirs 18.4 MiB
F022'3C66'56C5'6D8A'A0AE'7FFD'582E'6450

"bochs.exe" 3'401'216 2013-04-07 08:17
C4F7'C4AD'897E'604B'CCA0'6F74'8F66'8DF6

What's new in 2.6.1

* Still works (minimal test only) in DOS
* Works (minimal test only) with BIOS from 2.5.1 (note that the opposite effect is the rule)
* Added missing import "SetScrollInfo", 2.5.1 has only "MapDialogRect", 2.6.1 now has both
* Changed "vga" , must be adjusted or kicked from config file
* Deleted "i440fxsupport" , must be kicked from config file
* Deleted "pnic" , must be kicked from config file
* Warns about "keyboard_type" , "keyboard_serial_delay" , "keyboard_paste_delay" , "keyboard_mapping" , "user_shortcut" in config file

PS: Georg has an (unreleased) DGJPP port of BOCHS: #12428

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This is a LOGITECH mouse driver, but some software expect here
the following string:*** This is Copyright 1983 Microsoft ***