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Bochs 2.0 coming soon

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First post, by Stiletto

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The Bochs 2.0 release is planned for the end of November 2002. For now, though, you can try prerelease binaries.

What's new? Our last release was Bochs 1.4.1 on June 23 of this year. Since then there has been a LOT of development activity, […]
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What's new?
Our last release was Bochs 1.4.1 on June 23 of this year. Since then there has been a LOT of development activity, especially since mid-August. Here's a summary.

  • CPU optimizations boost simulation speed by around 2x. (Kevin Lawton)
  • Bochs now supports up to 8 hard drives, or 8 CDROMs, or any combination (Christophe Bothamy)
  • The wxWindows interface has grown so that you can edit all bochsrc parameters using menus and dialog boxes (Bryce Denney)
  • Added support for the AMD x86-64 instruction set used in their Hammer processor (Peter Tattam)
  • Added support for MMX instructions (Stanislav Shwartzman)
  • Added support for SSE and SSE2 instructions (Stanislav Shwartzman)
  • Remote GDB stub support (Johan Rydberg, Stu Grossman)
  • Added plugin support for Linux, Solaris, MacOS X, and Cygwin. Plugins allow you to compile Bochs with support for many options and load the pieces that you want at runtime.

Come here:
http://bochs.sourceforge.net/release2_0.html

"I see a little silhouette-o of a man, Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you
do the Fandango!" - Queen

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Reply 1 of 4, by [vEX]

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Hmm, those that mean I might use it on my PC to run Albion then ? 😀

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Reply 2 of 4, by Snover

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Hmm...
but the problem is, if it still can't run things, who cares?

Yes, it’s my fault.

Reply 3 of 4, by Nicht Sehr Gut

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Originally posted by Snover ... if it still can't run things, who cares?

Well, it can run some things, it's just that there are so few things it can run and that it's just been such a massive pain to set up, most non-programmers have blown it off. I still have unpleasant memories of manually editing config files in order to get the right combinations of sectors and cylinders, etc... just to get it working.

Hopefully this new one will at least have basic DOS functionality and an easy setup.

Reply 4 of 4, by Stiletto

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Nicht Sehr Gut wrote:

Hopefully this new one will at least have basic DOS functionality and an easy setup.

Yeah, I watch it because I keep hoping the next version will be usable. 😀

"I see a little silhouette-o of a man, Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you
do the Fandango!" - Queen

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