DOSBox-X 0.83.1

Description

DOSBox-X is a fork of the original DOSBox project (www.dosbox.com).

Changelog

0.83.1

Sound Blaster emulation fixed to better handle Goldplay mode detection false positive in 1994 demoscene demo myth_dw.zip when using Sound Blaster Pro setting in the demo. The initial state before music starts is like Goldplay mode, but when music actually starts the DMA programmed to normal state without restarting DMA playback.
dosbox-x.conf is now recognized as the default config file name in addition to dosbox.conf. The sample config file "dosbox.reference.conf" has been renamed to "dosbox-x.reference.conf" as well (Wengier)
Tandy DAC output fixed to slowly ramp last sample to zero DC sample (128) when switched off. This fixes loud popping (DC offset) problems with Tandy DAC sound effects in Prince of Persia. This new behavior also seems to match real Tandy 1000 hardware according to video captures of it's audio/video outputs while playing Prince of Persia on it.
Tandy/PCjr 3-voice fixed to respond to I/O port 0xC0 regardless of 8-bit or 16-bit I/O (fixes Prince of Persia).
Write-protecting a disk image in IMGMOUNT and BOOT commands now supported by putting a leading colon (:) before the image file name. Works with disk swapping; e.g. "BOOT :C:\DISK1.IMG C:\DISK2.IMG" only write- protects C:\DISK1.IMG but not C:\DISK2.IMG. The new config option "leading colon write protect image" can be used to disable or enable this behavior (Wengier)
Support for changing DOSBox-X internal time (Wengier)
Support for pipes (|), e.g. "DIR | MORE" should now work as expected; it is recommended to set the %TEMP% (or %TMP%) environment variable to a writable directory inside DOSBox-X before using pipes (Wengier)
Improved redirections using "<" or ">" (Wengier)
Improved Ctrl+C handling in some commands (Wengier)
Improved Tab completion in the command shell (Wengier)
Improved -get & -set options for the CONFIG command, e.g. support for config options with spaces (Wengier)
Improved REN (or RENAME) command to support wildcards (* and ?) in the source and/or target files (Wengier)
Some improvements to commands like MORE & VER (Wengier)
Added BREAK, VERIFY and TRUENAME commands as in a real DOS system. Type "[command] /?" for help info (Wengier)
Implemented FOR command to run a specified command for each file in a set of files. Also added LFNFOR command to control whether to use long filenames in the FOR command as in MS-DOS 7+ (Wengier)
Implemented ATTRIB command to view and set attributes of files or directories (Wengier)
Added emulation of R (readonly) attribute bit for Linux and Unix systems through the user-writable file mode bits of the filesystem.
Fixed PC DOS 2000 crash during installation.
PC speaker: Mode 3 (square wave) and a counter value of 1 produces a low frequency square wave. Ulrasonic frequencies do not begin until count == 2. This fixes helicopter noises in Paratrooper.
Fixed PC speaker emulation to allow higher PC speaker frequencies (10x the value of pcrate) to reduce hiss/noise/aliasing noise that occurs when games program ultrasonic frequencies into the counter to "silence" the speaker. "Titus the Fox Marrakech and Back" should no longer have audible hissing noises between beeps when the game is using the PC speaker.
Increased DOS device limit, to avoid E_Exit() crash if all LPT and COM devices are enabled along with the new CLIP$ device.
Minimum MCB free default changed to better reflect a typical MS-DOS setup with minimal to no drivers. This should result in a report of 600K-ish memory free, which is equivalent to Windows 95 without anything loaded except COMMAND.COM.
DIR command now supports /S (search all directories) as well as /A, /AS, /A-S, /AH, /A-H, /AR, /A-R, /AA, /A-A options for file attribute support; Note that DIR /A shows all files and directories whereas DIR alone (without /A) shows all except system/hidden ones as in a real DOS system (Wengier)
DIR command now shows the real free disk space on local drives. It is possible to limit this free space for certain programs with the -freesize option of MOUNT command. A new config option "freesizecap" is added to change the behavior of this option (Wengier)
DIR command fixed to show the volume label of the drive you are listing, instead of always the current drive (rderooy)
Various improvements to DEL and COPY commands, e.g. fixed the DEL /P option having no effect, and "DEL ." deleted all files in the current directory silently; the COPY command now asks for confirmation before overwriting files, and it now supports /Y and /-Y options to change this behavior, which can also be set from the COPYCMD environment variable. (Wengier)
Added or fixed help information and/or error messages for some commands. (Wengier)
Added support for DOS programs to communicate with the clipboard in Windows builds. If the "dos clipboard device enable" setting in dosbox-x.conf is set to "true" or "full", a DOS device (default name: CLIP$) will be added to allow bidirectional communications with the clipboard (e.g. "DIR >CLIP$" will write the output to the clipboard, and "TYPE CLIP$" will show the clipboard contents). Alternatively, you can set it to "read" or "write" to allow only read or write access for security reasons. The DOS device name can also be changed with the "dos clipboard device name" setting in dosbox-x.conf. (Wengier)
Added support for using the right mouse button to copy and paste from the Windows clipboard; the config option "clip_key_modifier" can be used to change the keyboard modifier such as none, alt, ctrl, shift, or disable this feature (default). (Wengier)
Updated the PasteClipboard feature in SDL1 build to support Unicode text translations; also fixed this feature not working in SDL2 build. The config option "clip_paste_speed" is added to speed up or slow down the pasting speed for different DOS programs (Wengier)
Support for DOSLIB2's w95sysrg/w95sysrs utils to get/set system registry location in DOS 7+. (Wengier)
Long filename support added, adapted from the vDosPlus project. It will be enabled with an initial DOS version of 7.0 or higher. (Wengier)
Corrected return value when using option to fake the installation of SHARE. (Allofich)
Added code to EMS emulation to print specific debug information when a PC-98 specific call is made to remap segment B000h to either system memory or video memory. I do not have enough test cases or a setup to test what really happens, so it will remain a debug message for now.
Added dosbox-x.conf option to allow emulation of a DOS environment that lacks ANSI.SYS. NOTE: The option has no effect in PC-98 mode.
INT 2Fh now responds to AX=1A00h which is an installation check to report whether ANSI.SYS is resident.
Added INT 21h debug logging for file I/O and general INT 21h usage [patch by ognjenmi]. Added enables for the logging which are off by default since the INT 21h and file I/O logging are fairly noisy under normal usage.