Tag Archives: DOSBox-Staging

DOSBox-Staging Git (2026/02/28) aims to modernize the DOSBox project by implementing contemporary development practices, resolving issues, and enhancing compatibility with modern systems. Key updates include version bumps for actions/download-artifact and actions/upload-artifact, cleanup of styles, and renaming “queueable value” to “queued value.” Changes also involve updating Config::SetProperty() to SetPropertyFromCli(), improving string handling logic, and refining command line argument processing. Additional fixes were made for Windows settings and 64k GUS DMA transfers. …

DOSBox-Staging Git (2026/02/23) is a modernized version of the DOSBox project, enhanced with current development practices and tools. Key updates include re-enabled portamento handling for FluidSynth, improved handling of LOCK with prefixes, and resolutions of PVS warnings. The API now provides better control over allocation strategies and allows toggling between legacy and modern cycles settings. Additionally, the cycles setting has transitioned to use a string property instead of PropMultiVal. The …

DOSBox-Staging Git (2026/02/22) modernizes the DOSBox project by adopting current development practices and tools. Recent changelog updates include: adding meson build files for a REST API, implementing memory access validation, improving security with Host header checks, and disabling the webserver by default. Key enhancements involve converting to UTF-16, refining local drive filesystem calls, and creating utility functions for file and directory operations. Additionally, updates ensure symlinks are correctly followed and …

DOSBox-Staging Git (February 20, 2026) has been compiled, aiming to modernize the DOSBox project through updated development practices, issue fixes, and enhanced features for contemporary systems. Notable updates include the addition of a set-version.py script and making release notes publicly accessible. Users can download the latest x64 version from the provided source link. DOSBox-Staging Git (2026/02/20) has been compiled. This repository aims to update the DOSBox project by utilizing modern …

DOSBox-Staging Git (2026/02/18) has been compiled to modernize the DOSBox project using current development practices. The repository includes new features and fixes to enhance compatibility with today’s systems, along with patches sent upstream. Key updates in the changelog include the addition of API example apps, a REST API for internal state, utilities for string case manipulation, and imports from nlohmann/json and cpp-httplib. Additionally, warnings in the httplib library have been …

DOSBox-Staging Git (2026/01/25) aims to modernize the DOSBox project by enhancing development practices, resolving existing issues, and adding features compatible with contemporary systems. Key updates include the removal of autotype for choice/t, unused forward declarations, and unnecessary translations. Notable fixes involve correcting a false positive key check in Windows console multitasking and ensuring serial mouse configuration is accessible during startup. Additionally, the project simplifies mouse code, adds a ‘GetStringLowCase’ function, …

DOSBox-Staging Git (2026/01/24) has been compiled to modernize the DOSBox project, incorporating current development practices and tools. The repository addresses issues and adds features to enhance compatibility with contemporary systems, while also submitting patches upstream. Recent updates include the implementation of warning flags that are compatible with relevant compilers. The build is available for download in x64 format, and the source can be accessed through the provided link. DOSBox-Staging Git …

DOSBox-Staging Git (2026/01/23) aims to modernize the DOSBox project by incorporating contemporary development practices, addressing issues, and enhancing compatibility with modern systems. Recent updates include increasing ‘max-gcse-memory’ to resolve GCC warnings on optimization skips and adding locale definitions for 25 additional countries. The project focuses on sending patches upstream to improve overall functionality. For more details and downloads, visit the linked source. DOSBox-Staging Git (2026/01/23) has been compiled. This repository …

DOSBox-Staging Git (January 22, 2026) has been compiled to modernize the DOSBox project using contemporary development practices. The repository focuses on addressing issues, enhancing features for modern systems, and contributing patches upstream. A notable update includes upgrading lukka/get-cmake from version 4.2.1 to 4.2.2. Downloads for the x64 version and source code are available. The DOSBox-Staging Git (2026/01/22) has been compiled. This repository seeks to modernize the DOSBox project by adopting …

DOSBox-Staging Git (2026/01/21) aims to modernize the DOSBox project by incorporating current development practices, addressing issues, and adding features for better compatibility with modern systems. The recent changelog highlights the exclusion of debugger-related files from non-debugger builds. The latest version is available for download in x64 format, with source code accessible as well. DOSBox-Staging Git (2026/01/21) has been compiled. This repository aims to modernize the DOSBox project by incorporating contemporary …

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 …