Msg: Re: DOSBox-X version 0.83.10 released!

Edward Mendelson has suggested the ability to automatically save the current state (with DOSBox-X's existing save state feature) in a regular time interval, e.g. 15 seconds, so that every 15 seconds the current state would be saved (without a prompt), and you can load a saved state afterwards. As a result, I have already implemented the auto save state feature to automatically save states at regular intervals and users can optionally also specify a save slot or start and end save slots to be used. For example, "autosave=10 11 20" will set a 10-second time interval for auto-saving, and the save slots used will be between 11 and 20. If no save slot is specified, then the current save slot will be used for auto-saving. Note however that the existing save state feature is not 100% perfect, so it may be possible that the application may not work fully as expected after loading a saved state.

Wengier

On Thursday, February 4, 2021, 09:23:57 p.m. EST, Harry Binswanger <hb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Maybe I just intended to. I would want to have the same almost unlimited levels of undo that Windows has. If dosbox-x for Windows does "talk" to the Windows OS, maybe it could just be mobilizing Windows' undo.

Robert Holmgren did a within-XyWrite undo that I couldn't get to work very well (maybe it's me). But the Windows cross-app undo is perfect.

Is that the kind of answer you had in mind?

Regards,

Harry

On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 12:59 AM Wengier Wu <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Harry,

I do not quite remember you requested this before, so can you please let me know how this feature is supposed to work? Thanks!

Wengier

On Feb 4, 2021, at 12:52 AM, Harry Binswanger <hb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Wengier,

I may have written before, but the one thing that XyWrite desperately needs is Window's undo feature. Is there any way to get that in a dosbox-x platform for Xy?

Thanks for all your great work,
Harry

On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 1:30 PM Wengier W <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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