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").

Getting better and better. Thank you for sharing.

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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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