AEP Emulation Page reports that Ipher released his test work-in-progress version of DOSBox version 0.64 yesterday. DOSBox is a multi-platform DOS emulator. Below are the changes in this version.

 

- Fixed FAT writing.

- Added some more missing DOS functions.

- Improved PIC so that it actually honours irq 2/9.

- Improved intelligent MPU-401 mode so that more games work with it.

- Some mouse fixes.

- Changed DMA transfers a bit so they bypass the paging tables.

- Added S3 XGA functionality.

- Improved paging so that read and write faults are handled differently.

- Rewrote exception handling a bit (no exception 0x0B with dos4gw anymore).

- Added IO exceptions in all but the dynamic core.

- Some ems improvements.

- Added midi-device selection code for the windows hosts.

- Fix crashes/segfaults related to the disabling of the pcspeaker.

- Added some more FILES=XX detection tricks.

- Fixed some vga detection schemes.

- Fixed screenshot corruption when using -noconsole in a read-only directory.

- Fix wrong scaled screenshots.

- Added some hidden file functions when using diskimages. (helps with cdrom detection schemes)

- Fixed a bug in the mixer code, that muted the music in certain games.

- Added an assembly fpu core.

- Made the shell more flexible for batch files.

- Check for unaligned memory acces fixes hangups on ARM processors

- Some 64 bit fixes.

- Added code to change configuration at runtime.

- Improved ADPCM emulation.

- Fixed a few cpu instructions.

- Always report vesa 2.0 and fix some colour issues with vesa games.

- Fix video mode 6.

- Improvements to the joystick emulation. 4 buttons are supported as well.

- Add VCPI emulation. No more ems=false with Origin games.

- Fixed a lot of things in the boot code. Most booters work now.

- Lots of improvements to the IPX emulation.

- Rewritten modem emulation. Should work with more games.

- Improvements to the dos memory managment routines.

- Add UMB (upper memory blocks) support.

- Emulate the pause key.

- Improve Composite CGA mode emulation.

- Lots of vga compatibility changes.

- Improved support for chained video modes.

- Improved mode and palete handling in cga modes.

- Mount accepts ~ now.

- Added a few of the EGA RIL functions.

- Added TandyDAC emulation.

- OS/2 support.

- Improved and speed up the dynamic cpu core.

- Fix some errors in the CD-ROM emulation layer.

- Added an automatic work-around for some graphics chipsets.

- Lots of bugfixes.

- Even more bugfixes.

You can visit Ipher's official web site here, and view the test page here.

Emu.pl reports that Mameinfo.dat version 0.102u2 (a), a DIFF-Update to Mameinfo.dat, has been released. Below is a quote from the homepage about the release.

 

0.102u2a:Newest Bugs ( 5th Dec). Added and reorganized 'Recommended Games'.

You can visit the homepage here, or simply obtain the new Mameinfo.dat here.

retroguru.com reports that VBA Link LS, the VisualBoy Advance enhancement and modification, has been updated. For those who don't know: VisualBoy Advance is a GameBoy Advance emulator for Microsoft Windows. The homepage is in Japanese and you can visit it here.

PDRoms reports that joanvr has released a single effect demo for the GP32 and GP2x. It's called "hell" and it's a fire-esque demo. You can find out more here.