Thanks to a head’s up by the DOSBox team, I’ve managed to keep semi-recent on DOSBox development. Guess what? 0.62 has been released. Joy of joys!

Here’s a bit of a blurb from their front page:

* Improved x86 dynamic core, more stable.

• The usual cpu/fpu emulation fixes and speedups.
• Soundblaster 16 and opl3 emulation added.
• Internal mixer updated with interpolation and volume support.
• Intelligent MPU-401 emulation added.
• ISO/Disk image mounting support.
• Custom chipset emulation for cga,tandy hercules modes.
• Improved pc-speaker emulation.
• Improved GUS emulation.
• Added a keymapper.
• VGA/VESA Bios fixes.
• IPX networking support.
• A zillion internal dos fixes/updates.
• New ddraw rendering output and new render functions.
• Raw adlib/midi capturing.

It took a bit more work than I expected – they’ve shifted to SDL_sound; and of course, by default it doesn’t compile thanks to a broken libtool and a few other things.

However, Here’s DOSBox 0.62, AltiVec optimized, and ready to roll!