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DOSBox-X 0.83.6 released (Announce)

posted by KormaX, 21.11.2020, 23:22

Thank you, I updated DOSBOx-X and v 0.83.7 is really useful. I also read this answer of you, but I had no time to answer it. I don't know what you mean by extension library, I suppose, it'd be a .dll you could distribute with DOSBox-X HX builds, but I don't know how much you want to import from the library and how much you are intended to perform in DOSBox-X itself. As a last resort, I could possibly write a .dll for you that deals with HDPMI32 and kindly asks for memory areas, invokes interrupts or installs handlers, IF no better programmer is intended to do it, if it is enough at all (meaning that DOSBox-X knows when to access real HW or real BIOS, and the library's only purpose is to contain the low level code to actually do that) and if I have the time (which I currently don't, but I might in the future). Yet, I don't know much about graphics adapters (which problem can be solved by reading docs, the goal is not a driver, but a transparent interface) and I can't do any high level mumbojumbo, as I am not a developer (which problem won't be solved in the foreseeable future). So depending on how you imagine this possible future feature of DOSBox-X, I may or may not be able to help you, but if I can, I will try. In the next 2-4 months I'll be in user-only mode, but if you'll have any idea of how much you expect from a .dll like that and noone else happens to be intended to write one (especially Japheth, who'd be the best person to do that), I can try to make a simple .dll for the purpose. 'Cause it was my idea, LOL.

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