Indications are good that Qbix intends to release a new official version at some point. Nobody knows when that will be, however.

In the meantime, you can try a CVS build (see my sig for a link) and help test new features and fixes that have been added since 0.63.

and quite a few new features at that...or were they bug fixex...well either way, i agree with trying the CVS. I know it's a beta but the CVS at least to me seems quite stable.

For a vanilla, stable build, try http://cvscompile.aep-emu.de/dosbox.htm

Well...I wouldn't assign the words "beta" or "stable" or "unstable" to getting the latest CVS.

DosBox is constantly being worked upon and tested so if anything DosBox 0.63 would be considered "beta" and "unstable" while the current CVS would be less "beta" and less "unstable". heh.

But you cannot really assign those terms. I can say with all of the testing we have done that the latest CVS is far more compatible and far more "stable" than DosBox 0.63. 😀 (But of course it's not an official release so there's always the chance that it may be more "unstable" than 0.63 in certain areas).

Qbix seems to be extremely careful about testing features and fixes before committing them to CVS, and when he's even the slightest bit unsure of a fix he will ask the beta testers to pay special attention to it. As a result, the CVS seems to be extremely stable.

It's also worth mentioning that every release version of DOSBox was/is just a CVS version that was tested extra thoroughly and released as "official". This means (ideally) that it is extremely stable and has noteworthy fixes and features since the last release, and also provides the community with a common reference point for testing bugs and other issues. However, this doesn't change the fact that it will go out of date as soon as the devs check in another CVS change...

Why don't you share with us some of those amazing new fixes and features?

Would be nice if there was some kindof cvs features list page on the main site. Sometimes you just want to know whats been added rather than download a new version of the cvs.

Click on the CVS info link in my signature and look for the ChangeLog links under the Useful Links section. I think the first one lists everything back to 0.63, while the other goes even farther back.

Yes but rather than having to go through 3-5 sites just to see a list of new features in the cvs when you could just have a list on the main dosbox site was my point.

The changelog is one list that shows all changes. The reason there are two links is because two different people are making the same changelog available to people.

The main DOSBox site doesn't mention much (if anything) about CVS builds because I think Qbix would ideally like to have most people use the official versions to avoid confusion. Unfortunately (in my opinion) it has been so long since 0.63 that many problems being reported have already been fixed in CVS...

You have to realize we are human beings and not robots.

So instead of reading a 50k worth of changes...twice...to the effect of "src/gui/render.cpp: Whoooooops : )", can't someone just summarize the important things and tell us "the CVS has added this and that". All we ask for is 5-10 lines of exciting stuff, no less, no more. Thanks.

Important things? 😉

Different things are exciting to different people.

I personally found this:

* src/hardware/vga_memory.cpp: Add "Support for VGA chain4 in
16-color modes" from patch 1302853 created by Vasyl Tsvirkunov.

rather exciting... I doubt most DosBox users would care tho...

But yeah I know what you mean. When Qbix is about to release the latest ver he usually tosses up some info and after he releases the official ver he posts the major changes since the last ver.

Why get people riled up for no reason? That's all we need is another 3Drealms fiasco.

Personally I'd rather the DOSBox devs concentrate on DOSBox development instead of going through the changelogs looking for features to tell people about...

I just updated my copy of the DOSBox CVS source code and found this in the ChangeLog included with it:

0.64
- Fixed FAT writing.
- Added some more missing DOS functions.
- Improved PIC so that it actually honours irq 2/9.
- Improved intelligent MPU 401 mode so that more games work with it.
- Some mouse fixes.
- Changed DMA transfers a bit so they bypass the paging tables.
- Added S3 XGA functionality.
- Improved paging so that read and write faults are handled differently.
- Rewrote exception handling a bit (no exception 0x0B with dos4gw anymore).
- Added IO exceptions in all but the dynamic core.
- Some ems improvements.
- Added midi-device selection code for the windows hosts.
- Fix crashes/segfaults related to the disabling of the pcspeaker.
- Added some more FILES=XX detection tricks.
- Fixed some vga detection schemes.
- Lot's of small bug fixes.
- Fixed screenshot corruption when using -noconsole in a read-only directory.
- Addes some hidden file functions when using diskimages. (helps with cdrom
detection schemes)
- Fixed a bug in the mixer code, that muted the music in certain games.

That's great! 😁

Personally I'm most excited about this:

- Lot's of small bug fixes.

🤣 very funny.

Erm, now I'm confused. In the CVS tree it says that the last change in the ChangeLog file is from 8 months ago! How can that be?

Yep, looks like that's when that stuff was added. I guess that means there's probably twice that amount of new stuff for 0.64 so far.

for the bored people

10.64
2  - Fixed FAT writing.
3  - Added some more missing DOS functions.
4  - Improved PIC so that it actually honours irq 2/9.
5  - Improved intelligent MPU 401 mode so that more games work with it.
6  - Some mouse fixes.
7  - Changed DMA transfers a bit so they bypass the paging tables.
8  - Added S3 XGA functionality.
9  - Improved paging so that read and write faults are handled differently.
10  - Rewrote exception handling a bit (no exception 0x0B with dos4gw anymore).
11  - Added IO exceptions in all but the dynamic core.
12  - Some ems improvements.
13  - Added midi-device selection code for the windows hosts.
14  - Fix crashes/segfaults related to the disabling of the pcspeaker.
15  - Added some more FILES=XX detection tricks.
16  - Fixed some vga detection schemes.
17  - Fixed screenshot corruption when using -noconsole in a read-only directory.
18  - Fix wrong scaled screenshots.
19  - Added some hidden file functions when using diskimages. (helps with cdrom
20    detection schemes)
21  - Fixed a bug in the mixer code, that muted the music in certain games.
22  - Added an assembly fpu core.
23  - Made the shell more flexible for batch files.
24  - Check for unaligned memory acces fixes hangups on ARM processors
25  - Some 64 bit fixes.
26  - Added code to change configuration at runtime.
27  - Improved ADPCM emulation.
28  - Fixed a few cpu instructions.
29  - Always report vesa 2.0 and fix some colour issues with vesa games.
30  - Fix video mode 6.
31  - Improvements to the joystick emulation. 4 buttons are supported as well.
32  - Add VCPI emulation. No more ems=false with Origin games.
33  - Fixed a lot of things in the boot code. Most booters work now.
34  - Lot's of improvements to the IPX emulation.
35  - Rewritten modem emulation. Should work with more games.
36  - Improvements to the dos memory managment routines.
37  - Add UMB (upper memory blocks) support.
38  - Emulate the pause key.
39  - Improve Composite CGA mode emulation.
40  - Lot's of vga compatibility changes.
41  - Improved support for chained video modes.
42  - Improved mode and palete handling in cga modes.
43  - Mount accepts ~ now.
44  - Added a few of the EGA RIL functions.
45  - Added TandyDAC emulation.
46  - OS/2 support.
47  - Improved and speed up the dynamic cpu core.
48  - Fix some errors in the CD-ROM emulation layer.
49  - Lot's of bugfixes.
50  - Even more bugfixes.

Well as usual this is a "summary" of all the changes. Will see which ones I will still destill out of it.

Now that's what I call a change log 😳 😁

Very nice, I'm really looking forward for it.

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