DOS ain't dead

DOSBox-X 0.83.15 is now officially released! Designing to be a cross-platform and complete DOS emulation package, it is the goal of DOSBox-X to cover essentially everything in the DOS scene, including DOS games, DOS shell, DOS applications, Windows 3.x/9x, DOS/V, PC-98, and more.

In order to help improve the general DOS emulation and also to help continued DOS developments, DOSBox-X intends to implement accurate emulation, accurate enough to help make new DOS developments possible with confidence the program will run properly on actual DOS systems. You can find more information about this in the following page:

https://dosbox-x.com/newdosdevelopment.html

DOSBox-X provides official DOS versions in addition to versions for other platforms (Windows, Linux, and macOS). You can download the latest DOSBox-X 0.83.15 packages for all supported platforms from the DOSBox-X project homepage:

https://dosbox-x.com/

There are quite a lot of new features and other improvements in this latest version, such as much improved international support and a lot more. You can find the release notes for this version (containing the change history) here:

* https://dosbox-x.com/release-0.83.15.html

Direct download for the HX-DOS package:

* dosbox-x-mingw-hx-dos-20210701082051.zip

The package is self-contained so that you can simply unzip the file and type DOSBOX-X to run in DOS. It is confirmed to work in DOS, and read the included README.TXT file for more information.

In addition, the updated DOS LOADLIN package for DOSBox-X 0.83.15 is also available, available from:

* dosbox-x-dos-0.83.15-loadlin.zip

For the LOADLIN package, you can run DOSBox-X right from DOSBox-X's DOS shell. Just make sure to start the outside DOSBox-X with the setting "memsize=127" and "cputype=pentium" (perhaps also "fullscreen=true" and/or "autolock=true").

> DOSBox-X 0.83.15 is now officially released! Designing to be a
> cross-platform and complete DOS emulation package, it is the goal of
> DOSBox-X to cover essentially everything in the DOS scene, including DOS
> games, DOS shell, DOS applications, Windows 3.x/9x, DOS/V, PC-98, and
> more.
>
> In order to help improve the general DOS emulation and also to help
> continued DOS developments, DOSBox-X intends to implement accurate
> emulation, accurate enough to help make new DOS developments possible with
> confidence the program will run properly on actual DOS systems. You can
> find more information about this in the following page:
>
> https://dosbox-x.com/newdosdevelopment.html
>
> DOSBox-X provides official DOS versions in addition to versions for other
> platforms (Windows, Linux, and macOS). You can download the latest DOSBox-X
> 0.83.15 packages for all supported platforms from the DOSBox-X project
> homepage:
>
> https://dosbox-x.com/
>
> There are quite a lot of new features and other improvements in this latest
> version, such as much improved international support and a lot more. You
> can find the release notes for this version (containing the change
> history) here:
>
> * https://dosbox-x.com/release-0.83.15.html
>
> Direct download for the HX-DOS package:
>
> *
> dosbox-x-mingw-hx-dos-20210701082051.zip
>
> The package is self-contained so that you can simply unzip the file and
> type DOSBOX-X to run in DOS. It is confirmed to work in DOS, and read the
> included README.TXT file for more information.
>
> In addition, the updated DOS LOADLIN package for DOSBox-X 0.83.15 is also
> available, available from:
>
> *
> dosbox-x-dos-0.83.15-loadlin.zip
>
> For the LOADLIN package, you can run DOSBox-X right from DOSBox-X's DOS
> shell. Just make sure to start the outside DOSBox-X with the setting
> "memsize=127" and "cputype=pentium" (perhaps also "fullscreen=true" and/or
> "autolock=true").

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Thank you!

The new functions are good, but I would like to report a bug of the HX-DOS version (the Loadlin version doesn't work for me even for testing, yet it's no poblem as it is not suitable for my everyday needs, I just can't test it for you):

The keyboard doesn't work properly. I use Hungarian keyboard layout, that works well with the vanilla DOSBox versions, but within DOSBox-X, the - and _ characters have been always replaced with ü an Ü respectively, although I never cared about it as - can be typed with the numpad as well and I rarely use _ within DOSBox, and when I do, a charmap is mostly available. But in version 0.83.15, all the special characters (ö,ü,ó,ú,é,á,?,?,í) are available on different keys and I can't type \ and | at all (Altgr+q and Altgr+w respectively).

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> Thank you!
>
> The new functions are good, but I would like to report a bug of the HX-DOS
> version (the Loadlin version doesn't work for me even for testing, yet it's
> no poblem as it is not suitable for my everyday needs, I just can't test it
> for you):
>
> The keyboard doesn't work properly. I use Hungarian keyboard layout, that
> works well with the vanilla DOSBox versions, but within DOSBox-X, the - and
> _ characters have been always replaced with ü an Ü respectively, although
> I never cared about it as - can be typed with the numpad as well and I
> rarely use _ within DOSBox, and when I do, a charmap is mostly available.
> But in version 0.83.15, all the special characters
> (ö,ü,ó,ú,é,á,?,?,í) are available on different keys and I can't type
> \ and | at all (Altgr+q and Altgr+w respectively).

Thanks for letting me know. The latest version has tried to improve support for e.g. Japanese keyboard layout, but may introduce bugs for some other keyboard layout(s). I will see if there is something to fix of course.

> The keyboard doesn't work properly. I use Hungarian keyboard layout, that
> works well with the vanilla DOSBox versions, but within DOSBox-X, the - and
> _ characters have been always replaced with ü an Ü respectively, although
> I never cared about it as - can be typed with the numpad as well and I
> rarely use _ within DOSBox, and when I do, a charmap is mostly available.
> But in version 0.83.15, all the special characters
> (ö,ü,ó,ú,é,á,?,?,í) are available on different keys and I can't type
> \ and | at all (Altgr+q and Altgr+w respectively).

I confirm that the keyboard is not working properly. The key characters to the left of the ENTER key such as ":" or "\", but also "=" are incorrect. In one of the previous versions (0.83.8 I think) they worked fine.

Yeah, that's the same part of the keyboard that's used for Hungarian accented letters. Also many Altgr+Something combination don't work. Up to version 0.83.14 it was perfect (or, at least, it only had a minor issue).

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> Yeah, that's the same part of the keyboard that's used for Hungarian
> accented letters. Also many Altgr+Something combination don't work. Up to
> version 0.83.14 it was perfect (or, at least, it only had a minor issue).

A new version is up. Please check it out:

http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/board_entry.php?id=18156