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2023.03.31

  • "mount -t overlay" will now print a message on the console to
    let you know if the act of mounting the overlay replaced a
    previous overlay mount. Overlay mounts cannot be stacked in
    DOSBox-X (and probably most DOSBox forks that support overlays)
    and the user should understand that. (joncampbell123).
  • Remove kludges from DOS path resolution to handle drive paths
    that refer to drive @ (at sign). Note that in ASCII the at sign
    is one code below capital "A". Windows 95 FORMAT.COM due to
    another issue was asking for "@:\WINBOOT.SYS" and sometimes
    causing a segfault in DOS path resolution due to an uninitialized
    drive index. The fix for the other issue removes the need for this
    kludge. In it's place a message will be logged to your log file if
    anything attempts to access files on drive "@:" because it likely
    means a failure to determine the drive index properly. (joncampbell123).
  • In addition to reporting the "boot drive" via INT 21h AX=3305h, also
    write boot drive in the "List of Lists" structure. Windows 95
    FORMAT.COM reads the boot drive from the LoL and does not do any
    error checking if that value is out of range (such as if it was
    never set and the byte value is zero). Failure to set this field
    will result in FORMAT.COM attempting to access "@:\WINBOOT.SYS"
    and "@:\IO.SYS" and failing. (joncampbell123).
  • Add dosbox.conf option to set a fixed RTDSC tick rate to use at
    all times during emulation instead of the CPU cycle count
    (joncampbell123).
  • Fix RDTSC to maintain a monotonic increasing count even if the
    CPU cycles count changes, and better handle timestamp writes
    through WRMSR (joncampbell123).
  • FAT filesystem driver: Instead of searching from cluster 0 every
    time a new cluster is to be allocated, keep track of the search
    to help reduce slowdowns on fairly large filesystems when many
    files are copied onto it (joncampbell123)
  • Page Up/Down vs Roll Down/Up was in the wrong order, switch order
    to correct it. (joncampbell123)
  • Fix 'pc98 force ibm keyboard layout' was always forced to be 'true'
    for left & right bracket keys on US keyboards. (maron2000)
  • Fix dynamic_nodhfpu FPU stack bugs, the same bugs that once plagued
    dynrec. dynamic_x86 never seemed to have the same problem because
    in reality the DH FPU case was normally used, to hit this bug you
    had to use core=dynamic_nodhfpu. Also fix dynamic x86 DH FPU code
    never to restore from DH case if the DH FPU code was never enabled,
    which periodically caused FPU state to dissapear. (joncampbell123).
  • Add dosbox.conf option to control the MSCDEX.EXE device name when
    emulating a CD-ROM drive (joncampbell123).
  • Wengier coded this nice text-only DOSBox-X logo for the TTF output.
    Fix border alignment issues and make the text logo the default and
    only option for MDA and Hercules machine types at boot.
    (joncampbell123).
  • Add -print-ticks command line option, which enables code to print
    both SDL_GetTicks() and emulator time once a second to the console
    and the log file. This may help in tracking down bugs related to
    long term laptop suspend or suspension of the process in general.
    (joncampbell123).
  • PC-98: Ignore INT 18h AH=0Ch (enable text layer) in 256-color mode.
    Real hardware doesn't seem to let you turn on the text layer in
    256-color mode, though I am not certain if this is a restriction
    imposed by the BIOS or by the hardware. This fixes possible cases
    where Sim City 2000 in 256-color mode reveals garbage text data at
    the bottom of the screen if it is there when it starts. This doesn't
    fix the issue where Sim City 2000 cannot set 640x480 256-color mode
    properly unless your display is already set to 31Khz hsync because that
    is evidently a bug in the game, not DOSBox-X. (joncampbell123).
  • PC-98 256-color mode: Fix "Active Display Words" value set by INT 18h
    to 40, not 80, for graphics layer. This has no apparent effect on
    games but it does fix the sometimes erroneous graphics layer width
    in the video debug display. Neko Project II source code seems to
    indicate the 31KHz hsync mode is programmed that way even if 256-color
    mode. This should not break anything since the GDC doesn't let you
    read back the "SYNC" reset parameters anyway--this isn't VGA hardware,
    after all. (joncampbell123).
  • IPX emulation was broken because it set up the virtual file, IRQ
    and interrupt handler way too early, which the BIOS startup would
    then overwrite with the default BIOS IRQ handler. IPX emulation
    should work now, at least multiplayer DOOM. (joncampbell123)
  • Added debug menu and dosbox.conf option to show debug information
    at the bottom of the screen when enabled. This debug information
    reflects the video state at the start of active display. It can be
    used to see in real time the state of the palette, display offset,
    display stride, and other useful information. It is rendered into
    the frame on purpose so that it appears as part of the picture
    when you take a screenshot or record a video to AVI or MTS for
    later review. (joncampbell123)
  • Dynamic core: Fix serious bug in dynrec dynamic core where calls
    to handle x86 FPU instructions erronously passed the entire
    FPU status word instead of passing only the FPU stack pointer.
    The result of this error was that floating point was erratic,
    buggy, and often caused memory corruption in DOSBox-X eventually
    leading to a crash. It should now be possible to properly run
    DOS games on dynrec based systems, including ARM-based M1 Macbooks,
    that use the FPU. (joncampbell123)
  • Debugger: When entering debugger interface, force dynamic core
    to flush it's state so that the debugger can show the correct
    state to the user when they use the "FPU" command to see it.
    (joncampbell123).
  • VGA emulation: Automatically ignore odd/even mode if "Chain 4"
    mode is enabled in the sequencer (normally enabled only for
    256-color mode). Some games accidentally set odd/even mode
    in 256-color mode and yet apparently worked just fine on real
    hardware. Without this change, such games will display distorted
    graphics. It makes logical sense "Chain 4" would take priority
    over odd/even mode. Note: If a game uses 256-color unchained mode
    AND foolishly enables odd/even mode, then the resulting distorted
    graphics are probably accurate to what would happen on real
    hardware, but then programmers would have caught their mistake
    and fixed it so that is very unlikely to occur. This helps to fix
    "Seal: Magic Eye" although some remaining visual artifacts in the
    game can only be resolved by setting machine=svga_et4000
    (joncampbell123).
  • Set usescancodes=true when non-US keyboards are detected
    (Windows builds) (maron2000)
  • For long double without using x86 FPU, the code still calls the
    fstcw instruction and can enable FPU exceptions that crash the
    emulator, therefore mask off all exception bits to stop that.
    (joncampbell123)
  • Added code to mouse emulation to control how often the mouse
    reports events through the interrupt. Added dosbox.conf option
    to allow the user to force a report rate, which can be used to
    force a lower than normal report rate for games that cannot
    proprly handle higher ones. Allow PS/2 mouse emulation, if
    rate not set by user, to control report rate. (joncampbell123).
  • Add code to COMMAND.COM to flush keyboard input before running
    the command given by the user, and flush again when the command
    returns. Added option to dosbox.conf to enable/disable this
    function (joncampbell123)
  • Fix bug where Tandy mode ignored the "allow more than 640kb"
    setting.
  • Fix INT13h AH=02 broken conditional branch which prevents
    installer of game "Inherit the Earth: Quest for the Orb"
    to obtain free space of hard drive (maron2000)
  • qcow2 image support: Make image able to be mounted by
    drive letters (experimental) (maron2000)
  • VHD image support: Make file name check for .vhd extension
    to be case insensitive (maron2000)
  • VHD image support: Fix auto-detection of geometry (maron2000)
  • Sound Blaster: Added code to periodically check the user's
    settings regarding recording source selection and listening.
    This should allow the user to change those settings on the
    fly. (joncampbell123).
  • Sound Blaster: Added options to control whether the generated
    recording source is audible through the speakers, and what
    generated audio to send to the client. Options are: silence,
    hiss, and a 1KHz test tone. (joncampbell123).
  • Sound Blaster: If the DSP is recording rather than playing,
    then send audio to the guest at the recording sample rate
    containing some form of generated audio. Default is silence.
    This ALSO satisfies the Creative driver CTSB16.SYS when it
    does the DMA test at startup. (joncampbell123).
  • Sound Blaster: Fixed code to properly recognize when the
    guest wants to record audio, including through SB16
    commands. Prior to this fix, all SB16 Bxh-Cxh commands
    were handled as if playback even if the command would
    instead trigger recording. (joncampbell123).
  • Sound Blaster: Add missing update of "last DMA callback"
    timestamp that is needed for when the guest pauses DMA
    during playback or recording. (joncampbell123).
  • VHD image support: If the VHD image is not a fixed type,
    say so in the log (previously it said nothing) and say
    what kind of image was mounted (joncampbell123).
  • Added INT 13h AH=44h Extended Verify to satisfy any disk
    utilities that might use it. The function doesn't really
    do anything except return success (joncampbell123).
  • Fix CPU stack management to use CPU mode agnostic method
    using mem_readw instead of real_readw. However the real
    mode version is used if real or virtual 8086 mode because
    of comments in an older commit that mention UNLZEXE that
    depends on real mode stack pointer rollover. This fixes
    a bug related to protected mode APM (Advanced Power
    Management) emulation that prevented the Linux kernel
    from booting (joncampbell123).
  • Add support for INT 2F function 1680h "Idle" and DOS
    idle (INT 28h), add code to reduce DOSBox-X CPU load
    during emulation when the idle function is called,
    add dosbox.conf enable/disable (default enable) to
    control this behavior (Github user "finalpatch")
  • Graphical fixes and dialog support for Haiku OS (amol-)
  • Allow jp106 keyboard layout in DOS/V mode, automatically
    choose when keyboard layout is auto on Windows with
    Japanese keyboard, fix jp106 input in SDL1 builds running
    on Japanese Windows with English keyboard (nanshiki)
  • Sync dh fpu state with normal fpu when dynamic core
    calls normal core to handle self modifying code. Add
    additional code to other cases. (Github user "finalpatch")
  • Fix incorrect handling of upper 4 bits of character attributes
    in video mode 72h in DOS/V mode (nanshiki)
  • Fix BIOS signature at 0xFFFFF to reflect actual value
    of Tandy machines so "Ninja" works correctly in
    Tandy mode (rderooy)
    See also: [https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=92129]
  • Change default mixer rate to 48KHz instead of the
    long standard 44.1KHz. Most modern sound cards on
    modern OSes render at 48KHz anyway and resample
    either in hardware or software and most configurations
    render at 48KHz. Perhaps somewhat improved audio quality
    could be had by rendering at what most sound cards are
    doing these days anyway. As usual, audiophiles are free
    to set the mixer rate to 96KHz if supported by their
    sound card. (joncampbell123)
  • Fix PIT 0 timer interrupt handling not to attempt
    periodic event and error adjustment unless the game
    is using periodic modes 2 or 3. This fixes PIT timing
    bug and possible emulator hang when exiting games
    like "Days of Thunder" that leave PIT 0 in mode 0 or
    1 on exit for some reason. (joncampbell123)
  • Fix Sound Blaster DMA rate limits to better reflect
    actual hardware. SB16 limits to 45454Hz just as
    Pro and earlier do. These limits were added before
    the proper measurements were coded and tested on
    real hardware. (joncampbell123)
  • Fix S3 cursor emulation to support both X11 and
    Windows hardware mouse cursor modes available
    on S3 Virge, Trio, and possibly other cards
    (John Tsiombikas)
  • Add EGA/VGA emulation code to keep track at runtime
    whether planar features are in use. If they are not,
    then handle EGA/VGA video memory access using a
    simplified version for a bit of a performance boost
    in response to complaints about poor VGA emulation
    performance. (joncampbell123)
  • VGA palette DAC update: Instead of recalculating
    the palette map every time a color is written through
    port 3C9h, set a flag. Defer palette map update to
    when the next scan line is rendered, in order to
    improve performance. (joncampbell123)
  • Add option to enable or disable the "memory I/O
    optimization" option, meaning the code that was
    added to assign simplified VGA memory I/O handling
    when the DOS game is not using any bit planar raster
    op and more complicated features of the EGA/VGA
    hardware. (joncampbell123)
  • Added VGA render on demand mode to VGA emulation.
    When enabled, VGA emulation does not render scanlines
    until vertical retrace or when certain registers are
    written that change the display (attribute controller,
    VGA palette, etc.). It is added to dosbox.conf as
    "scanline render on demand" and is false by default
    because it can provide a performance boost for DOS games
    but it also tends to break timing-dependent Demoscene
    effects. The idea is that some emulator performance
    improvement may be possible by not interrupting the
    CPU loop per scanline for the same reason that DOSBox
    SVN has traditionally only rendered the VGA display
    in quarters instead of per scanline. (joncampbell123).
  • Remove experimental "alt VGA" rendering code. It was
    never completed and it is probably starting to
    bitrot (joncampbell123).
  • Fix EGA/VGA version of CGA 4-color graphics renderer
    code to consider all four bitplanes when combining
    each pair into a 2-bit value. When bitplanes 2+3 are
    enabled and writeable, the 4-color mode becomes a
    sort of 2-plane 2 bits per pixel 16-color mode. Fix
    for machine=ega and "Leather Goddess of Phobos 2",
    a game that sets up EGA 640x200 16-color mode then
    suddenly switches on the 2bpp CGA mode as a way to
    do 16-color dithered graphics. (joncampbell123).
  • Fix installers for Dynamix games not working.
    (Allofich & halcyon00)
  • Fix crash related to swapping between disk
    images. (Allofich)
  • SVN r4482: Correct CMS sound pitch. (Allofich)

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