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savestates - a feature I'd like to see

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First post, by Sir Thomas

Posted on 2014-05-14, 14:53

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Hello everybody,

I am a frequent DosBox user, and for some games it would be really nice to have savestates so that you could save the RAM at any immediate point to the harddrive and then load these states later on. For action games, for example, it would be a real benefit.

Amiga and Atari ST emulators already possess this feature - alas - DosBox doesn't so far.

What I would like to know is this: Could such a feature be implemened in the next version of DosBox??

Many thanks for answering this - Sir Thomas 😀

Reply 1 of 5, by Dominus

Posted on 2014-05-14, 17:11

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There is an inofficial once-wip - use the search

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Reply 2 of 5, by Sir Thomas

Posted on 2014-05-15, 13:22

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Can you explain what a "once-wip" is??

Thank you. Sir Thomas

Reply 3 of 5, by Dominus

Posted on 2014-05-15, 13:51

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WIP=work in progress
Once because there is no progress 😉

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Reply 4 of 5, by Zup

Posted on 2014-05-15, 15:29

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The key word is unofficial, though.

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Sometimes going all the way is just a start...

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Reply 5 of 5, by sky66

Posted on 2014-06-08, 16:39

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Sir Thomas wrote:

I am a frequent DosBox user, and for some games it would be really nice to have savestates so that you could save the RAM at any immediate point to the harddrive and then load these states later on. For action games, for example, it would be a real benefit.

Amiga and Atari ST emulators already possess this feature - alas - DosBox doesn't so far.

What I would like to know is this: Could such a feature be implemened in the next version of DosBox??

Try to use DOSBox SVN Daum builds
http://ykhwong.x-y.net/

it has been implemented for a long time...

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