Releases for Macintosh operating systems.
- Details
- Category: Mac
What's New:
Licensing
- The emulator core is now licensed under the Mozilla Public License v2.
Enhancements
- A user-definable upper bound limits the size of the snapshot storage.
- Denise’s DIW logic is more accurate.
Bug fixes
- Fixed a bug related to the allocation of sprite DMA slots.
- Fixed a race condition related to the SPRxCTL register.
- Fixed an issue with the serial port (9-bit packets).
- Fixed a minor visual issue in the status bar that started showing up with the latest macOS release.
Internal changes
- Large data structures are now created on the heap rather than the stack.
- In debug builds, debug variables can be switched on and off dynamically in RetroShell.
- Details
- Category: Mac
What's New:
Licensing
- All files of the core emulator, except reSID, are now dual-licensed. In addition to the existing GPL license, they are licensed under the Mozilla Public License v2. The GUI code is still published under GPL only.
Enhancements
- Improved thread management
- Added a new menu option for simulating the execution of a BRK instruction.
- Memory can now be read or modified inside the RetroShell debugger.
Bug fixes
- Fixed a bug in the CPU reset routine.
- Fixed a bug that prevented some snapshots from being restored when a cartridge was attached.
- The CPU’s processor port values were not written into snapshot files.
- PET strings extracted from P00 files got the wrong padding character.
- The CIA inspector panel always shows the contents of CIA 1.
- The saved dot mask setting did not get restored on startup.
Internal changes
- Large data structures are now created on the heap rather than the stack.
- In debug builds, debug variables can be switched on and off dynamically in RetroShell.
- The internal run loop has been simplified.
- CIAs are now executed by the event scheduler (like in vAmiga).
- IEC bus updates are now triggered via events.
- Details
- Category: Mac
What's New:
- Debugger! (from an unreleased "1.2" version)
- Memory Viewer!
- (Untested!) support for MEGA Audio and SD Music sound cards
- Universal build
- Details
- Category: Mac
What's New:
- The issue addressed in 8.5.2 now works also, when switching the games list - Editing game description is supported for user's games entries only.
- In "About DOSBox" menu, current versions of DOSBox-X are no longer shown as "0.x", as their version number starts with creation year now.