Tag Archives: DOSBox-Staging

DOSBox-Staging Git (2026/01/19) has been compiled to modernize the DOSBox project by adopting current development practices and tools. Key updates include enhancements to build documentation, improvements in network functionalities, and the removal of outdated dependencies. Notable fixes address deprecated features, resolve softmodem issues, and replace thread sleep in the IPX server with asynchronous I/O. The repository aims to optimize support for contemporary systems while contributing patches upstream. For download options, …

The DOSBox-Staging Git (2026/01/18) aims to modernize the DOSBox project through improved development practices, addressing issues, and adding features compatible with contemporary systems. Key updates include enhancing the safety of cache handling, introducing new utility functions, refactoring data structures, and improving memory management. The changelog highlights changes such as renaming and removing deprecated macros, streamlining render processes, and ensuring consistency in naming conventions. Additionally, improvements were made to the command …

DOSBox-Staging Git (2026/01/17) is a compiled version aimed at modernizing the DOSBox project by incorporating current development practices, resolving issues, and enhancing features for better compatibility with modern systems. Recent updates include an improved SDL workaround for foreground window problems on macOS. The repository also focuses on contributing patches upstream. Users can download the latest x64 version at the provided source link. The DOSBox-Staging Git version (2026/01/17) has been compiled. …

DOSBox-Staging Git (2026/01/16) aims to modernize the DOSBox project by adopting current development practices and addressing issues to improve compatibility with modern systems. The latest changelog includes updates like using int for integer types in image capture, enhanced image capture logging, reformatting code style, adding comments, and improving variable names. Additionally, it normalizes constant names, simplifies mouse driver structure pragmas, and revises mouse configuration to incorporate a notification subsystem while …

DOSBox-Staging Git (2026/01/15) has been compiled with the goal of modernizing the DOSBox project by adopting current development practices and tools. This update focuses on fixing issues, enhancing features for contemporary systems, and contributing patches upstream. Notable changes include the addition of a mouse hack specifically for the game Joan of Arc on Hercules machines. The compiled version is available for download in x64 format, with the source accessible as …

The DOSBox-Staging Git version from January 13, 2026, aims to modernize the DOSBox project by incorporating current development practices. Recent updates include formatting normalization, shader improvements, and removal of outdated code and unused constants. Documentation enhancements include added help text for the jinc2 shader setting, SPDX comments, and an updated description for input devices. Noteworthy features are the addition of a jinc2 shader from RetroArch and enforcement of no-TSR mouse …

DOSBox-Staging Git (2026/01/11) aims to modernize the DOSBox project with updated development practices. Notable changes include removing unnecessary logging for SDL_SetHint(), enhancements to video rendering, and the addition of display calibration images. It supports wide color gamut and image adjustments, and fixes issues related to shader switching. The project also increases the minimum macOS version to 12.0 and adds OpenGL 4.3 debug context support. Improvements in unit tests and configuration …

DOSBox-Staging Git (2026/01/10) has been released, aiming to modernize the DOSBox project with contemporary development practices. This version includes several improvements: fixing PVS-Studio warnings, addressing a potential disk noise crash in debug builds, and enhancing the build with warnings for implicit fallthroughs in switch/case blocks. Additionally, it adds more metadata to the macOS executable for improved observability. Download links for the x64 version and the source are available. DOSBox-Staging Git …

The DOSBox-Staging Git (2026/01/08) repository aims to modernize the DOSBox project by integrating current development practices, resolving issues, and enhancing functionality for modern systems. Key updates include improved VGA drawing documentation, simplifications in rendering logic, and better code organization—such as replacing magic constants and renaming variables for clarity. The project also streamlines the scaler-related components by removing unused elements and consolidating functions. Additional refinements include cleanup of comments and formatting …

DOSBox-Staging Git (2026/01/07) aims to modernize the DOSBox project through updated development practices and support for contemporary systems. The recent changelog highlights numerous code improvements, including the removal of redundant parentheses and lambda return types in various source files, as well as the simplification of implementations using the ‘auto’ keyword. Key changes also involve replacing ‘push_back’ with ’emplace_back’ across multiple files and updating documentation and the website for version 0.82.2. …

DOSBox-Staging Git (2026/01/03) has been compiled to modernize the DOSBox project by adopting current development practices and tools. The repository aims to resolve issues and introduce features that improve compatibility with today’s systems while contributing patches upstream. A notable change in this release includes fixing a relative resource path on macOS. Users can download the x64 version or access the source through the provided links. Sure! Here’s a rewritten version …

The DOSBox-Staging Git (2026/01/02) update aims to modernize the DOSBox project by implementing contemporary development practices and tools, addressing issues, and enhancing compatibility with today’s systems. Key changes include extensive usage of the ‘auto’ keyword across various source files, enabling improved coding efficiency. This update affects files related to shell commands, Unicode encoding, serial ports, VGA, audio, and several others, along with the introduction of range-based loops in multiple files. …

DOSBox-Staging Git (2025/12/31) has been compiled to modernize the DOSBox project, utilizing current development practices and tools. Recent updates include synchronizing DOS mouse driver languages with translations, adding public functions for language and territory retrieval, and making the ‘iso_locale_codes.h’ header public. The repository improves safety by replacing unsafe ‘sscanf’ calls with ‘parse_int’ and ‘parse_float’, identified through CodeQL analysis. Key files updated include ‘int10_modes.cpp’, ‘mixer.cpp’, and ‘shell_cmds.cpp’, enhancing compatibility with today’s …

DOSBox-Staging Git (2025/12/30) aims to modernize the DOSBox project through updated development practices and tools. Recent updates include the removal of redundant delay calls for disk noises, improved handling and logging of DiskNoise enums, the addition of a floppy spin sound sample, and a fix for floppy sounds not playing during booting from floppy images. Users can download the x64 version or access the source code. DOSBox-Staging Git (2025/12/30) has …

The DOSBox-Staging Git (2025/12/28) update focuses on modernizing the DOSBox project by implementing current development practices and addressing various issues. Changelog highlights include the addition of unit tests for translation newline adjustments, improved compatibility with the MODE command, and updates to config setting messages. Enhancements also involve refining function styles and naming conventions, strictly parsing integer config values, and reverting out-of-range integer settings to defaults. The repository aims to enhance …

DOSBox-Staging Git (2025/12/27) aims to modernize the DOSBox project by adopting current development practices and tools. The latest updates include deferring SDL audio subsystem initialization, improving window and renderer management, and enhancing logging. Key changes involve renaming configuration functions for clarity, ensuring keyboard capture settings are applied correctly, and fixing issues with minimum window sizes and auto integer scaling. Additional adjustments include consolidating macOS window workarounds and cleaning up redundant …

DOSBox-Staging Git (2025/12/25) has been compiled to modernize the DOSBox project. This repository incorporates current development practices, fixes issues, and adds features to enhance compatibility with modern systems while sending patches upstream. Recent changelog highlights include the addition of local drive date tests, modifications to file opening modes for FAT drives, code refactoring, improved initialization order, and titlebar module simplification. The project aims to streamline functionality and enhance user experience. …

DOSBox-Staging Git (2025/12/24) has been compiled to modernize the DOSBox project. The repository focuses on improving development practices, addressing issues, and enhancing features for compatibility with modern systems while also contributing patches upstream. Recent updates include the initialization of DOSBox modules prior to the GUI. The project is available for download in x64 format. DOSBox-Staging Git (2025/12/24) has been compiled. This repository aims to modernize the DOSBox project by incorporating …

DOSBox-Staging Git (2025/12/23) has been compiled to modernize the DOSBox project, incorporating current development practices, fixing issues, and adding features for better compatibility with today’s systems. Key updates include enhancements to Linux unit testing and build instructions, shader fixes for scaler/xbr-lv2-3d and misc/fixvideo, and a workaround to always raise the window after startup on macOS. These improvements aim to streamline the development process and enhance user experience. Users can download …

DOSBox-Staging Git (2025/12/22) aims to modernize the DOSBox project by incorporating contemporary development practices, addressing issues, and enhancing features for current systems. Recent updates include improved Linux build instructions, the enforcement of Unix EOL marks in the translation subsystem, and fixes for the Dutch (NL) translation. Users can download the latest x64 version from the provided source link. DOSBox-Staging Git (2025/12/22) has been compiled. This repository aims to modernize the …

DOSBox-Staging Git (2025/12/21) updates the DOSBox project with modern development practices, addressing issues and adding features to enhance compatibility with today’s systems. The changelog highlights improvements in build comments, fixes for thread sanitizer warnings on macOS, optimization of FPU code, resolution of Meson build issues following the removal of directserial, and the handling of non-UTF-8 characters in the ManyMouse library. Additionally, it enables extra warnings for Clang and GCC 13+. …

The DOSBox-Staging Git (2025/12/20) update focuses on modernizing the DOSBox project by incorporating current development practices. Key changes include the removal of obsolete comments, fixes for the mt32 option, updates to project dependencies, and style improvements. Significant enhancements involve the addition of the OPT_MT32EMU build flag, ensuring FPU emulation and IPX support are always enabled, and removing legacy serial port passthrough. Modem support is also consistently enabled, and a missing …

DOSBox-Staging Git (2025/12/19) has been compiled to modernize the DOSBox project by adopting current development practices and tools, fixing issues, and enhancing features for contemporary systems. Key updates in the changelog include the removal of unused functions and warnings, adjustments to render and setup files, and updates to SHOWPIC.EXE. The project also dropped the Debian package and platform build CI actions, and removed simpleini from CMake. Users can download the …

DOSBox-Staging Git (2025/12/18) is now compiled, aiming to modernize the DOSBox project with contemporary development practices. Key updates include fixing video mode calculations for the showpic command and improving documentation by updating and cleaning the README.md while removing outdated build status badges. The repository focuses on addressing issues, enhancing features for better compatibility with modern systems, and contributing patches upstream. Download the latest x64 version or access the source code …

DOSBox-Staging Git (2025/12/16) has been updated to modernize the DOSBox project, incorporating current development practices and enhancing compatibility with modern systems. Key updates include the addition of the SHOWPIC command, SDL_RWops support for reading DOS files, and the SDL2_image library. The update also removes a placeholder command, fixes various license headers and header guards, and bumps the action versions for artifact upload and download. For the latest version, you can …