First post, by dr_st
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DOSBOX is an amazing piece of software. I think everyone here knows that.
I've been using the official DOSBOX 0.74 for a while, and generally it works great for me, for most games I play. Sometimes there are issues, which I've learned to live with / work around.
However, only recently I realized how many different flavors there are. SVN builds, DAUM builds, the DOSBOX Megabuild (which I discovered ages ago when I wanted to run Win3.11 with parallel port passthrough via Porttalk/AllowIO), DOSBOX-X, this branch, that patch, etc.
I understand that the different flavors originated when folks wanted to add some specific, perhaps rarely used, functionality without disrupting the stability of the main build. However, now with so many different builds out there, and apparently at least some of them appear better than the main line version in solving certain quite mainstream problems, I'm wondering:
- Is there a comprehensive guide somewhere that keeps track of at least the main branches, their purpose, differences from the official version, strength/weaknesses? I found http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/SVN_Builds. Is this comprehensive enough?
- Is there a plan in the community at some point to take the new features of the various branches, merge them into the trunk (if they are not already there) and issue a new official release?
- Until the above becomes reality (if and when), is there some general, rule-of-thumb recommendation as to which build is best to use for maximum compatibility with DOS games / apps?
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