Msg: Re: DOSBox-X version 0.83.10 released!

John sent me an email regarding the cursor speed option. In case anyone else does not yet know, with the latest DOSBox-X 0.83.10 you can customize the cursor blinking speed in TTF output with the ttf.blinkc option. Cursor speed customization is new in this version (as part of "Improved TrueType font (TTF) output" in the release notes). Just set an integer between 1 (fastest) and 7 (slowest) to change TTF cursor blinking rate, or setting it to 0 for no cursor (or false for non-blinking cursor as in previous versions). The default value when you enable the ttf.blinkc option is 4 on the standard setting, or 6 for PC-98 systems.

On Tuesday, February 2, 2021, 10:50:33 p.m. EST, Wengier W <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi all,

The latest version of DOSBox-X (0.83.10) is now officially released. As a cross-platform DOS emulator, there are quite a few improvements in this new release compared with the previous version 0.83.9, such as improved TrueType font (TTF) output and file functions, write/overlay support for mounted ZIP/7Z archives, new Windows 9x-friendly dynamic core, support for native pixel-perfect scaling with openglpp output, support for Direct3D output in Windows SDL2 builds as default output, support for VGA/EGA/CGA & mono mode dual-screen display, improved support for playing 3Dfx games, improved compatibility for Windows XP, along with many usability improvements such as support for color theme customization for the welcome banner, resolving file paths in config options, BOOT command (without a parameter) to boot from the current drive, translating texts in the drop-down menus, and menu option "List Printer Devices" to list printers on Windows, and many more. You can find the DOSBox-X 0.83.10
release notes here:
https://dosbox-x.com/release-0.83.10.html

Windows installer and Linux Flatpak package for DOSBox-X 0.83.10 are officially available to ease the installation, in addition to other packages including portable packages for Windows, macOS and DOS. You will find the official downloads for them from the DOSBox-X homepage:
https://dosbox-x.com/

You can also download a Windows portable version of DOSBox-X 0.83.10 from:

http://cndos.fam.cx/dosware/dosbox-x-update.zip

It has the TrueType font output and the dynamic_x86 CPU core set by default which are more optimized for XyWrite.

Thanks a lot for your support!

Sincerely,

Wengier