DOSBox is een opensourceprogramma waarmee een DOS-omgeving kan worden geëmuleerd, waardoor het mogelijk is om oude software en spellen te draaien die niet of niet goed meer werken op moderne computers. De laatste versie van DOSBox is echter alweer meer dan zes jaar geleden verschenen. DOSBox-X is ontstaan als een fork en biedt naar eigen zeggen meer flexibiliteit en functionaliteit. Downloads zijn beschikbaar voor Windows, Linux en macOS. De changelog voor versie 2026.05.02 kan hieronder worden gevonden.
DOSBox-X 2026.05.02
- DOSBox-X will now check both the current directory and the .config directory in your home directory for DOSBox-X logo PNG files. It is now possible to configure one set of PNG files as a default for all uses of DOSBox-X from your user account.
- src/gui/render.cpp: Added missing ifdef conditional on C_METAL to enable building on macOS platforms without Metal support.
- Fixed Metal support detection: add framework linker flags to configure check
- Fixed window position not centered even when windowposition option is set to do so.
- Fixed MSCDEX device name padding for short names
- When DOS games use the Adlib FM chip to do "digitized speech", DOSBox-X does emulate that correctly, and it also correctly emulates how low the volume is on the sound card output. However to make it more audible, a new option "adlib pcm boost" has been added. If set, and the Adlib emulation detects that the guest application is playing PCM audio through it, the audio levels of the FM output will be amplified to make the digitized speech much more audible.
- Fixed mapping of TTF to match with guest codepage when launched with output=ttf.
- Limit window size of TTF output to 2/3rd of the screen in both dimensions so that the window is not TOO large on the user's screen.
- Fix segfault in TTF output code caused by codepage mapping when the TTF output is not active.
- Fixed clip_paste_bios option change was not reflected. Also, default is changed to "true" for Windows due to some characters fails to paste when set otherwise.
- Replaced some deprecated functions in dosbox.h.
- Fixed colors in the screenshot of macOS SDL1 build were wrong.
- Fix savestate restore crash in POD_Load_DOS_Files during live file slot teardown
- Fixed mouse cursor display in DOS/V Japanese mode
- INT 13h AH=48h: Fixed LBA detection
- Fixed read/write errors on last sectors of disk image
- Int 13h: Added option to enable/disable 48-bit LBA support
- Fix VHD file geometry detection
- Fixed crash when printing out multipages to printer (Windows)
- printer.cpp: Fix occasional missing page break after line wrap
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