DOS ain't dead

The BOCHS team released version 2.4 of the BOCHS emulator

http://sf.net/projects/bochs

What's new:

> Added graphical Bochs debugger frontend for most of the supported platforms.

seems not to break anything ...

> Many bugfixes for CPU emulation correctness (both x86 and x86-64).

Knowing that many bugs got fixed is good, having some examples would be even better ...

> Closed bug: [2129223] MOV reg16, SS not working in real mode due to dead code

Sadly it works for me in both 2.4 and 2.3.7 ... oops, this one was INVALID ... but why do they boast with it then ???

> VBE video memory increased to 16 MB

The (non-mallicious) faulty VESA mode is still in.

> implemented changeable VBE LFB base address
> (PCI only, requires latest BIOS and VGABIOS images)

OK ...

> dpmild32: import not found: MapDialogRect
> dpmild32: file USER32.dll
> dpmild32: C:\WSOCK32.dll: cannot resolve imports

New unresolved import, ignoring helps ... but why "C:\WSOCK32.dll" ??? I can find this import request in USER32.DLL only ...

> 17FB68 17FE90 0 0 18042E 12E274 USER32.dll
> 17FEE4 1803C8 12E2C8 1803C8 1EE MapDialogRect

It still works as 2.3.7 did, and I still have the problems with CTmouse 2.1b4 "sometimes" hanging and some VESA code not working ... don't know whether it's specific to usage in DOS, though

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This is a LOGITECH mouse driver, but some software expect here
the following string:*** This is Copyright 1983 Microsoft ***

> The BOCHS team released version 2.4 of the BOCHS emulator

Hm, it seems it doesn't like my machine. After upgrade I started getting this error after I pressed power button to exit VM. Also I can see emulated OS runs much slower than in previous 2.3.6. I tried more VMs, eg. freedos and linux and all crashes at exit. So I'm back to 2.3.6.

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DOS gives me freedom to unlimited HW access.

> The BOCHS team released version 2.4 of the BOCHS emulator

Got it but hardly tested & not at all in HXDOS yet; looking at
the new model bochsrc config file did hint at some interesting
possibilities. Bochs can now use a text mode display, unless I'm
just confused by the comments. Could be intersting in HX.

Tried it, anybody ? Please tell us of your failed experiments/success
stories !


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Ninho

So little time...