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DOSBox-X 0.83.6 released (Announce)

posted by KormaX, 27.10.2020, 11:44

I would also like to mention that by passthrough I simply meant that DOSBox-X would recognize any attempt to reach a video device but instead of emulating the hardware, it is just passed to the real memory or I/O address and vice versa. Interrupts may make it more difficult, but the point is, this way DOSBox-X doesn't have to provide any drivers, like, say, VIDIX. It's up to the client program whether it's able to handle the videocard or not. So HW acceleration would only be possible with a real Voodoo card or smthg, but sVGA should be enough on a modern hardware, as it is fast enough to make HW acceleration redundant. This method would make DOSBox-X's SDL menü unavailable while in this mode, yet it would be extremely useful.

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