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DOSBox-X 0.84.2 / 2022.08.0 released! (Announce)

posted by Japheth Homepage, Germany (South), 03.08.2022, 17:31

> The DOS 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.
Thanks for the new release! Good work, AFAICS!

I have some comments:

1. It's not sufficiently pointed out that the keyboard issues in dosbox-x are more or less due to using sdl1 - they disappear if dosbox-x is compiled with sdl2 ( also, with sdl2, there's a much better fullscreen mode ).

2. Open Watcom's WD works fine with dosbox-x ( at least my slightly modified version, which is based on OW v1.9 ). Would be cool if dosbox-x supports an alternate video adapter ( monochrome ) like 86Box does ( or perhaps it does and I just have overlooked that info in the docs? ).

3. the ctrl-alt-del "emulation" does not work reliably - the system is not really in a clean state afterwards, and one might have to close and reopen dosbox-x ( not a big issue, just worth to mention ).

4. There are problems in dosbox-x if an exception occurs when the trace flag is set. This is also a problem with dosbox ( and 86Box, btw ). If you are interested, I can provide a test case.

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