No. It has been discussed zillions of times. And it's not an impending feature, at least for the foreseable future.
Keep in mind, implementing "save states" functionality is VERY DIFFICULT, for many reasons. I am not a developer so I cannot enlighten you more. 😁

Do you actually need a save/load functionality (as you typed in the topic)
or just to dump the memory into a file (as you say in your posting)? None of
those is implemented in dosbox as is, but you could achieve the 2nd (mem
dumps) with a little programming.

wd

memdumps exist (but not binary) in debug mode

hi again.
thanks for the replys.
i just need the memory to be dumped to a file. i can handle it from there...

think i can manage it with the dosbox sourcecode?

what do you mean not binary

One of the obvious problems with save states is that the resulting file would be, relatively speaking, huge. Imagine not only having to save the register states of every emulated device but also the RAM of every device.

This has already been extensively discussed in several other threads, although I can't resist mentioning that you'd also have to save the disk state for many games, which adds yet another level of complexity.

he's more refering to a memory dump

Well download the debug version of dosbox and read the guide in this forum.
there is some memory dump command in it

this has all been very useful and i am allowing myself to get my hopes up a little. what i actually need is not a save state feature. im not trying to simulate save game features for old games. what i need is simpler i think. i need to add a feature to dos box that will allow me to dump the memory allocated to the current running program to a file. that's all i need. i don't intend to use this information in any game later so i don't need the registers and disk states and whatnot. just the binary memory dump. i figure i can modify the source code to add this feature but i don't know where to start. any pointers?

Howdy.

There is an old DOS TSR that I used, way back in the day, called Game Wizard Pro. It allows direct editing of memory regions (aka cheating) as well as memory dumps.

The only problem is - I can't get GW Pro to work in DOSBox. 😐

-Adam

You should SEARCH the forum. Game Wizard Pro has been discussed before, if I am not mistaken.

I've looked around for any postings on Game Wizard. can't find any and yeah - i can't get it to work under dos box. shame too. was a neat idea.
so are there any pointers on where to start if i want to code in memory dumps for the running program?

As Qbix said, there's support for hex-dumps in the debugger-enabled
compiles of dosbox (see the development forum).

GameWizard: see Memory Freezing / cheating

wd

where can i get this debug version of dosbox?

The debug version of 0.63: DOSBox debugger
The debugger guide is here: Guide to the DOSBox debugger

Mirek

thanks a lot!
one more question though.
i was told that the mem dump is not binary. im not very clear on that. what does it mean? what is it if not binary?[/quote]

Probably Qbix means that it dumps hex numbers instead of the actual data. Just a guess though.