dosbox-wii/NEWS
2009-05-02 21:53:27 +00:00

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0.61
- Added a beta dynamic cpu for x86 hosts (very unstable)
- Added opengl and hardware overlay display output
- Rewrote the vga screen updates to go in lines
- Added paging and v86 support to cpu emulation
- Added a config option to simulate a certain type of machine
- Added hercules graphics emulation
- Made CGA/TANDY modes more compatible
- Updated textmode drawing routines to support blinking colors
- Fixed VESA set page function that was documented wrong
- Fixed some wrongly emulated cpu opcodes.
- improved exception handling
- debugger: fixes; logging of gdt,lgt,idt, new commands(Fizzban)
- fixed some mscdex issues (drive letter header error, added get directory entry)
- added/fixed some bios funcs
- added some rarely used xms functions (thanks c2woody!)
- implemented GUS emulation
- Added 16-bit DMA support (for GUS and eventually SB16)
- Fixed many small bugs in filehandling routines
- Many small FPU fixes (c2woody/Fizzban)
- Some keyboard improvements (pharlab games)
- Some Timer and cmos/rtc fixes (Mirek/Srecko/Others)
- Lot's of mouse fixes (Help from various people)
- Enabled internal modem
- Made the DOS parsing routines a bit more flexible
- Added Subst (Srecko)
- Added cdrom ioctl support for linux (prompt)
- Many internal DOS fixes: memory/files/datastructures.
- Got some help from c2woody in allowing more than 1 irq being served
- Disabled DPMI (not needed anymore. DOSBox handles almost every extender)
- Search configfile in $HOME directory if none present in current directory
- Added another way to switch to protected mode. (Thanks Morten Eriksen!)
- Fixed some odd badly documented behaviour with PSP/DTA
- Added some warnings on opening of readonly files in writemode(DOS default).
- Many shell enhanchements
- Fixed a win32 specific bug dealing with filenames starting with a "."
- Fixed some bugs with the directory structure: not found/can't save errors
0.60
- rewrote memory system for future paging support
- fixed several EMS and XMS bugs and rewrite for new memory system
- added some support for tandy video modes
- added MAME Tandy 3 voice emulation
- added MAME CMS/GameBlaster emulation
- added serial port emulation with virtual tcp/ip modem (somewhat buggy)
- sound blaster emulation is now sb pro 2.0 compatible
- added basic support for 32-bit protected mode
- VGA now tries to emulate an S3 Trio 64 card with 2 MB
- VESA 2.0 support for some 256 color modes
- rewrote large piece of video bios code for better compatibility
- added support for the not inheritance flags.
- created functions for creating child psp.
- updated errorcodes of findfirst (thanks Mirek!)
- rewrote loggingsystem to generate less warnings
- added dos protected mode interface (dpmi)
- added cdrom label support
- improved cdrom audio playing
- fixed and improved directory cache
- debugger shows selector- and cpu mode info
- added SELINFO (selector information) command to debugger
- added reference counting for dos files
- added tab-completion
- added basic fpu support.
- fixed several bugs with case sensitive filesystems.
- added more shell commands and improved their behaviour.
- mouse improvements.
- real time clock improvements.
- DMA fixes.
- Improved .BAT file support.
0.58
- fixed date and time issues with fcbs
- added more commands to the internal Shell
- corrected config system when a old configfile was used
- fixed cga put and get pixel
- fixed some vga register getting reset to wrong values
- improved support for foreign keyboards
- improved joystick support
- made dosbox multithreaded again
- lot's of soundblaster fixes
- dma fixes
- cdrom support
- midi support
- added scale2x
- reenabled screenshot support
- joystick support fixes
- mouse improvements
- support for writing wavefiles
- added directory cache and longfilename support (longfilenames will be mangled)
- mouse fixes
0.57
- added support for command /C
- fixed all fcb-write functions
- fixed fcb-parseline
- added debugger under linux/freebsd
- added debugger memory breakpoints and autolog function (heavy debug)
- added loadfix.com program that eats up memory (default 64kb)
Usage : loadfix [-option] [programname] [parameters]...
Example: loadfix mm2 (Allocates 64kb and starts executable mm2)
loadfix -32 mm2 (Allocates 32kb and starts executable mm2)
loadfix -128 (Allocates 128kb)
loadfix -f (frees all previous allocated memory)
- added echoing of characters for input function
- added support for backspace for input function
- added partial support for int10:01 set cursortype
- fixed most of the problems/bugs with character input.
- fixed allocationinfo call.(darksun series)
- improved dos support for non-existant functions
- Split screen support
- prefix 66 67 support
- rewrote timingscheme so 1000 hz timers don't cause problems anymore
- update adlib emulation
- fixed some isues with the mouse (double clicks and visible when it shouldn't be)
- improved mouse behaviour (mickey/pixel rate) and detection routines.
- basic ansi.sys support
- Disney sound system emulation
- rewrote upcase/lowcase functions so they work fine with gcc3.2
- SHELL: added rename and delete
- added support for command /C. Fixed crashes in the shell
- fixed various bugs when exiting dosbox
- fixed a bug in XMS
- fixed a bug with the joystick when pressing a button
- create nicer configfiles.
- bios_disk function improved.
- trapflag support
- improved vertical retrace timing.
- PIT Timer improvements and many bug fixes
- Many many bug fixes to the DOS subsystem
- Support for memory allocation strategy
- rewrote cpu mainloop to act more like a real cpu
0.56
- added support for a configclass/configfile
- added support for writing out the configclass into a configfile
- removed the language file and made it internal
- added support for writing the language file (will override the internal one)
- improved mousesupport
- updated readme
- support for screenshots
- some cpu-bug fixes
- dma changes
- Real Sound support
- EMM fixes and new functions.
- VGA fixes
- new wildcompare
- support for size and disktype at mount.
- added new debugger functionalities: start/trace into INTs, write processor status log,
step over rep and loop instructions, breakpoint support without using INT 03 (heavy debugging switch)
- Added more cpu instructions and changed the string operations.
- Added classes for most of the internal dos structures.
- Rewrote most of the fcb calls to use normal dos calls.
0.55
- fixed the errors/warnings in prefix_66.h and prefix_66_of.h (decimal too large becomming unsigned).
- fixed compilation error on FreeBSD when #disable_joystick was defined
- int10_writechar has been updated to move the cursor position.
- changed the basedir routines to use the current working dir instead of argv[0]. This will fix and brake things :)
- illegal command, now displays the command
- wildcmp updated to be case insensitive
- added fcb:open,close,findfirst, findnext.
- fixed rename in drive_local
- added new features to the debugger: breakpoint support / data view / command line
- partial support of list of lists (dos info block)
- full emm 3.2 support
- partial emm 4.0 support
- fixes to graphics core fonts (text in sierra games is now correct)
- improved support for user mousehandlers
- fixed EGA graphics
- fixed VGA graphics
- fixed write with size 0
- changed memory management.
- fixed and cleaned up the cpu flags.
- changed interrupt handler.
- speeded up the graphics.
- speeded up the cpu-core
- changed dma
- improved dma streams from emm memory
- added some cga videomodes
- added more funtions to the keyboard handler
0.50:
-added F3 to repeat the last typed command.
-made it possible to change the shellmessages(dosshell). so
you can costumize it.(dosbox.lang)
-changed cpu core.
-Fixed a lot of errors with the keyboard: shift-f1 and
alt-f1 now works.
-Fixed some division errors.
-made a plugin system.
-added a lot of real 386 mode instructions.
-made it possible to resize the screen.
-Mayor source cleanup/reorganisation.
-Complete rewrite of the graphics routines. Should make it
possible to implement more fancy things like 2xsai,interpolation.
-changed the sound playback.
-Changed the vga drawing to only draw on memory changes, instead
of drawing an entire frame.
-fixes to the soundblaster/dma code should be able to play 4-bit
adpcm compressed sounds.
-added the correct time to dir.
-bugfixes to batch-file handling.
-Lot's of small bugfixes.(Dune1&2,wolf3d, many more).
-Released the source.