Release of DOSBox Staging 0.75

After 10 years since the last significant release of DOSBox has been published release DOSBox Staging 0.75, which was taken up by enthusiasts as part of a new project, gathering numerous scattered patches in one place. DOSBox is a multi-platform emulator of the MS-DOS environment, written using the SDL library and developed to run old DOS games on Linux, Windows, and macOS. DOSBox Staging is developed by a separate team and is not connected to the original

DOSBox , which has seen only minor changes in recent years. Among the goals of DOSBox Staging is to provide a user-friendly product, simplify the involvement of new developers (for example, using Git instead of SVN), work on expanding functionality, initially focusing on DOS games, and support for modern platforms. The project does not aim to support outdated systems such as Windows 9x and OS/2, nor does it focus on emulating hardware from the DOS era. The main task is to ensure quality performance of old games on modern systems (for hardware emulation, a separate forkdosbox-x has been developed). A transition to the multimedia library).

In the new release:

• SDL 2.0 (support for SDL 1.2 has been discontinued). Support for modern graphics APIs has been provided, including a new output mode 'texture' that can operate through OpenGL, Vulkan, Direct3D, or Metal.
• Support for CD-DA (Compact Disc-Digital Audio) tracks in FLAC, Opus, and MP3 formats has been added (previously only WAV and Vorbis were supported).
• A correct pixel scaling mode has been added that preserves the aspect ratio (for example, when running a 320×200 game on a 1920×1080 screen, pixels will be scaled 4×5 to produce a 1280×1000 image without blurring.
• The ability to freely resize the window has been added.
  
• The AUTOTYPE command has been introduced to simulate keyboard input, for example, to skip cutscenes.
• Rendering settings have been changed. By default, an OpenGL-based backend is used with a 4:3 aspect ratio correction and scaling via OpenGL shader.
• New methods for configuring mouse behavior have been added.
  
• By default, the OPL3 emulator
• Nuked , providing higher quality emulation of AdLib and SoundBlaster has been implemented.The ability to change hotkeys on the fly has been added.
• The ability to change hotkeys on the fly has been added.
• Settings in Linux have been moved to the directory ~/.config/dosbox/.
• Dynamic recompilation support has been added for 64-bit CPUs.
• Monochrome and composite output modes have been added for games designed for CGA graphics cards.
• Support for using GLSL shaders for accelerating emulated output has been added.

Source: opennet.ru