Important: A release candidate is a "sneak preview" of Dosbox-Staging 0.81's upcoming release before a full round of internal testing is completed. As such, it might contain occasional bugs or regressions, but it should be free of major problems.
Community feedback is crucial to discover issues in any complex software. The release candidate is intended for experienced early adopters willing to help us stabilise Dosbox-Staging for the final release. If you’ve found any issue in the RC, please report it accordingly.
Regular users who prefer a straight-line progression from one release to the next should wait for the stable release; this should come up to 2 months after the release candidate.
https://dosbox-staging.github.io/releases/release-notes/0.81.0-rc/
https://github.com/dosbox-staging/dosbox-staging/issues/new/choose for creating bug reports.
https://github.com/dosbox-staging/dosbox-staging/wiki
https://discord.gg/WwAg3Xf
For best results with 3DFX / Voodoo support currently, in dosbox-staging.conf, change these settings: cycles = 150000 and dos_rate = 60 respectively. Do not use cycles = max. Also, take a look at the [voodoo] section of dosbox-staging.conf as well.
https://dosbox-staging.github.io/releases/release-notes/0.81.0-rc/#3dfx-voodoo-1-emulation
Where Is dosbox-staging.conf Located?
Quick Editconf Feature
Additionally, the Dosbox-Staging Dev team is also looking for anyone who can help improve Dosbox-Staging's newly added 3DFX / Voodoo support. If you are willing and able to assist on that front, please join Dosbox-Staging's Discord channel at https://discord.gg/WwAg3Xf.
If you play the Wing Commander series with a keyboard and joystick setup (or joystick only), make sure that you also take a look at:
https://dosbox-staging.github.io/downloads/release-notes/0.79.0/#joystick-calibration-hotkeys
https://dosbox-staging.github.io/downloads/release-notes/0.76.0/#10-axis-controller-support
https://github.com/dosbox-staging/dosbox-staging/wiki/Joysticks
If you play DOS games other than the Wing Commander series which heavily rely on mouse movements, open dosbox-staging.conf and set mouse_raw_input = true. Mouse sensitivity can also be adjusted in that .conf file via the mouse_sensitivity setting. The loadfix command in Dosbox-Staging also works the same as it does in Dosbox 0.74-3.
If you want to know about the rest of Dosbox-Staging's features from previous releases, make sure to read the Release Notes on the left-hand side of the Downloads page as well.
Dosbox-Staging 0.81 RC's features are listed below:
Community feedback is crucial to discover issues in any complex software. The release candidate is intended for experienced early adopters willing to help us stabilise Dosbox-Staging for the final release. If you’ve found any issue in the RC, please report it accordingly.
Regular users who prefer a straight-line progression from one release to the next should wait for the stable release; this should come up to 2 months after the release candidate.
https://dosbox-staging.github.io/releases/release-notes/0.81.0-rc/
https://github.com/dosbox-staging/dosbox-staging/issues/new/choose for creating bug reports.
https://github.com/dosbox-staging/dosbox-staging/wiki
https://discord.gg/WwAg3Xf
For best results with 3DFX / Voodoo support currently, in dosbox-staging.conf, change these settings: cycles = 150000 and dos_rate = 60 respectively. Do not use cycles = max. Also, take a look at the [voodoo] section of dosbox-staging.conf as well.
https://dosbox-staging.github.io/releases/release-notes/0.81.0-rc/#3dfx-voodoo-1-emulation
Where Is dosbox-staging.conf Located?
Quick Editconf Feature
Additionally, the Dosbox-Staging Dev team is also looking for anyone who can help improve Dosbox-Staging's newly added 3DFX / Voodoo support. If you are willing and able to assist on that front, please join Dosbox-Staging's Discord channel at https://discord.gg/WwAg3Xf.
If you play the Wing Commander series with a keyboard and joystick setup (or joystick only), make sure that you also take a look at:
https://dosbox-staging.github.io/downloads/release-notes/0.79.0/#joystick-calibration-hotkeys
https://dosbox-staging.github.io/downloads/release-notes/0.76.0/#10-axis-controller-support
https://github.com/dosbox-staging/dosbox-staging/wiki/Joysticks
If you play DOS games other than the Wing Commander series which heavily rely on mouse movements, open dosbox-staging.conf and set mouse_raw_input = true. Mouse sensitivity can also be adjusted in that .conf file via the mouse_sensitivity setting. The loadfix command in Dosbox-Staging also works the same as it does in Dosbox 0.74-3.
If you want to know about the rest of Dosbox-Staging's features from previous releases, make sure to read the Release Notes on the left-hand side of the Downloads page as well.
Dosbox-Staging 0.81 RC's features are listed below:
List of Dosbox-Staging 0.81's Features:
Graphics:
01. Authentic adaptive CRT emulation
02. Accurate video emulation
03. 3dfx Voodoo 1 emulation
04. New integer scaling modes
05. Aspect ratio correct image captures
06. Supercharged image and video capturing
07. Aspect ratio and viewport enhancements
08. Fix "black vertical bars" video corruption issue
09. New deinterlacing shader for FMV games
10. Other graphics-related changes
Sound:
01. IBM Music Feature Card support
02. Roland MT-32 ROM handling improvements
03. FluidSynth fixes
04. Improved MIXER command
05. MIDI muting improvements
06. Sanitise MIDI output & Roland RA-50 compatibility
07. Optionally fade out hanging notes on Tandy & OPL
08. CD Audio support on Linux for physical CD-ROMs
09. Other sound-related changes
Input:
01. Virtual joystick fixes
02. Support for mapping mouse buttons to keys
03. VirtualBox mouse driver support
04. Multi-monitor-aware mouse capture support
05. Other mouse improvements
06. macOS function key support
07. Brazilian ABNT2 keyboard support
DOS Integration:
01. New FOR command
02. Various DOS command additions and improvements
03. Persistent command history
04. Support for all DOS file & directory attributes
05. Autoexec improvements
06. Optional shell config shortcuts
General:
01. Revised CPU cycles handling
02. Pause improvements
03. Config improvements
04. Revised capture naming scheme
05. Command-line user experience improvements
06. Normalise Windows Explorer context menus
07. Log window support on macOS
08. Modernised application icons
09. Maximum memory space increased to 3 GB
10. Modem improvements
11. x87 FPU emulation improvements
12. Debugger improvements
13. Improved Linux man page
14. FreeBSD, OpenBSD & PPC support
Localisation:
01. Support for modern and historic locales
02. Translation updates
03. Script to convert GOG CP473 config files to UTF-8