[Dosbox-announce] DOSBox 0.57 has been released

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Dosbox is a full x86 emulator written in C/C++ with sound
and dos. 
It's main use is to run old dosgames on platforms which
don't have dos(win2k/XP/FreeBSD/linux).

The most important new features:
- Disney sound system
- better timing
- Many bugfixes
- improved mouse support 

Get it at http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/dosbox

This release is a Christmas release and is the result of all
the bugs found and fixed by the beta-group.

At the end of this document the full changelog for 0.57.
at least 50 problems have been fixed that prevented at least
50 games from starting up.
Peter Veenstra







0.57
  - added support for command /C
  - fixed all fcb-write functions
  - fixed fcb-parseline
  - added debugger under linux/freebsd 
  - added debugger memory breakpoints and autolog function
(heavy debug)
  - added loadfix.com program that eats up memory (default
64kb)
    Usage : loadfix [-option] [programname] [parameters]...
    Example: loadfix mm2 (Allocates 64kb and starts
executable mm2)
             loadfix -32 mm2 (Allocates 32kb and starts
executable mm2)
             loadfix -128 (Allocates 128kb)
             loadfix -f (frees all previous allocated
memory)
  - added echoing of characters for input function
  - added support for backspace for input function
  - added partial support for int10:01 set cursortype
  - fixed most of the problems/bugs with character input.
  - fixed allocationinfo call.(darksun series)
  - improved dos support for non-existant functions
  - Split screen support
  - prefix 66 67 support
  - rewrote timingscheme so 1000 hz timers don't cause
problems anymore
  - update adlib emulation
  - fixed some isues with the mouse (double clicks and
visible when it shouldn't be)
  - improved mouse behaviour (mickey/pixel rate) and
detection routines.
  - basic ansi.sys support
  - Disney sound system emulation 
  - rewrote upcase/lowcase functions so they work fine with
gcc3.2
  - SHELL: added rename and delete
  - added support for command /C. Fixed crashes in the shell
  - fixed various bugs when exiting dosbox
  - fixed a bug in XMS
  - fixed a bug with the joystick when pressing a button
  - create nicer configfiles.
  - bios_disk function improved. 
  - trapflag support
  - improved vertical retrace timing.
  - PIT Timer improvements and many bug fixes
  - Many many bug fixes to the DOS subsystem
  - Support for memory allocation strategy
  - rewrote cpu mainloop to act more like a real cpu