DOSBox Staging 0.79.0 now released!

[Wengier]

Main improvements in this release:

Audio Improvements

1. 3.1. AdLib Gold Surround Module Emulation
2. 3.2. Sound Card Output Filter Emulation
3. 3.3. Crossfeed
4. 3.4. Reverb and Chorus
5. 3.5. Master Compressor
6. 3.6. General Mixer Improvements
7. 3.7. "One OPL mode to rule them all"
8. 3.8. FluidSynth Configuration Changes
9. 3.9. ripa's PC speaker Patch
10. 3.10. Parallel Port DAC Models: Disney, Covox, and Stereo-On-1
11. 3.11. Audio Mute and Pause

Graphical Improvements

1. 4.1. Shader Reload Shortcut
2. 4.2. CGA Palette Override
3. 4.3. Scaled Image Quality Improvements
4. 4.4. High DPI on macOS
5. 4.5. Window Transparency Support
6. 4.6. Frame Presentation Modes

DOS Shell Improvements

1. 5.1. Piping from the DOS Prompt or Batch Files
2. 5.2. File Attribute Support and ATTRIB Command
3. 5.3. Default Choices for the CHOICE Command

Mount Improvements

1. 6.1. Physical CDROM Mount Support
2. 6.2. Read-Only Disk Image Mount Support
3. 6.3. Z Drive Customisation and Directory Support
4. 6.4. IMGMOUNT Wildcard Support
5. 6.5. Automount of Resource Drives

Localisation Improvements

1. 7.1. Code Pages and Keyboard Layouts
2. 7.2. Country Support for Different Date, Time, and Decimal Formats
3. 7.3. Local Language and Keyboard Layout Detection Improvements

Input Improvements

1. 8.1. Mouse-Wheel Emulation
2. 8.2. Serial Mice Emulation
3. 8.3. Windows 3.1 Seamless Mouse Integration
4. 8.4. Joystick Calibration Hotkeys

General Improvements

1. 9.1. Command-line Setting of Conf Options
2. 9.2. Windows Installer for Windows Users
3. 9.3. Configurable Modem Connect Speeds
4. 9.4. Handling Options for Memory Faults in Buggy Games

Developer-related Improvements

1. 10.1. Self-Documenting Bit Twiddling with bit_view
2. 10.2. Memory Block and Type Size Simplification
3. 10.3. Tracy Profiler Integration
4. 10.4. Continuous Integration MSYS2 Workflow Improvements
5. 10.5. Release-package Shell Script
6. 10.6. Static Analysis

Look at the release notes for detailed explanations:

https://dosbox-staging.github.io/v0-79-0/

Note for Windows users: This is the first version of DOSBox Staging to come with a Windows installer for easier installation. Its direct download link:

https://github.com/dosbox-staging/d...load/v0.79.0/dosbox-staging-v0.79.0-setup.exe

 

[sombrerosonic]

Guess ill have to update DOS-Box on my XP laptop

 

[CaptainSmackdown]

Nice! Love DOSBox.

 

[linuxares]

oh direct image mounting, nice

 

[SylverReZ]

oh direct image mounting, nice

You can do the same with DOSBox-X.

 

[linuxares]

You can do the same with DOSBox-X.

TIL, I don't really use Dosbox so