This is a compilation of patches, that were distributed as "DOSBox
Megabuilds" by h-a-l-9000. Summary of patches:
- Don't exit on unsupported fullscreen mode
- Console beep support
- Paging improvements (experimental)
- Timer and interrupt latency patch, fixes certain games
- Reduced CPU usage when idling in command line
- Add the 'IMGMAKE' command (creates disk images, type imgmake -? in
DOSBox for info on this)
- Make vgaonly features availible to other graphics cards, allow
scalers to work in scanline emulation modes when possible
- Free choice of wether 9-pixel wide characters should be used
- Add back config option for video memory size - up to
8MB = 1600x1200@32bpp
- Add DATE and TIME commands, midnight overflow, and host time
synchronization (type date /s to activate)
- Add /B parameter support for the DIR command
- NE2000 Ethernet passthrough
- Real hardware OPL chip passthrough
- Parallel Port passthrough, file rediredtion and Virtual Printer
patch, logging enabled
- Restart capability - ctrl+alt+POS1 or config -r [params]
or FJMP F000:FFF0
- APM poweroff (Win95)
- Serial FIFO support and logging capability enabled
- Increase maximum resolution to 1600x1200, add lot's of highres
VESA modes
- Fixes to S3 resolution handling, aspect ratio, enable LDGFXROM
(loads video BIOSes, only useful for debugging)
- Weird video DAC support for the Transgression 2 Demo (tgr2 -hc), in
vgaonly mode
- CGA video memory slowdown
- DOSBox can load while the splash screen displays
- FILES= adjustable by Kippesoep
Long and detailed description (with screenshots) is included with the
commit and can be found in: docs/html-doc/index.html
c759fb6...
by
Ralf Grillenberger <email address hidden>
config:
- fix crashes when passing unexpected parameter combinations
- config -get 'sectionname' now lists the properties with their values
- add missing translation string
Thanks robertmo for reporting.
