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DOSBox-X 0.83.14 released (emulator for new DOS development) (Announce)

posted by Wengier , 02.06.2021, 02:12
(edited by Wengier on 02.06.2021, 02:43)

DOSBox-X 0.83.14 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, PC-98, and more, and also to implement accurate emulation as possible.

Not only DOSBox-X wants to run existing DOS programs, it also intends to help with new DOS developments and encourage developments of new DOS software. 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 0.83.14 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 drive Z: directory support, changing current floppy or CD images when running guest systems, START command for non-Windows platforms, major improvements to multi-language support (including for example support for UTF-8 language files, Unicode menu text and Chinese/Japanese/Korean languages).

You can find the release notes for this version (containing the change history) here:

* https://dosbox-x.com/release-0.83.14.html

Direct download for the HX-DOS package:

* dosbox-x-mingw-hx-dos-20210601013916.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 0.83.14 is also available, available from:

* dosbox-x-dos-0.83.14-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").

Complete thread:

• DOSBox-X 0.83.14 released (emulator for new DOS development) - Wengier, 02.06.2021, 02:12 (Announce)
  • DOSBox-X 0.83.14 released (emulator for new DOS development) - rosegondon, 06.06.2021, 17:42
    • DOSBox-X 0.83.14 released (emulator for new DOS development) - Wengier, 08.06.2021, 04:49
      • DOSBox-X 0.83.14 released (emulator for new DOS development) - rosegondon, 08.06.2021, 12:00
        • DOSBox-X 0.83.14 released (emulator for new DOS development) - Wengier, 09.06.2021, 01:26
          • DOSBox-X 0.83.14 released (emulator for new DOS development) - rosegondon, 09.06.2021, 12:38