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/wikihttps://dosbox-staging.github.io/getting-started/introduction/https://discord.gg/WwAg3XfFor 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. Some DOS games have a specific game executable that loads the game with the Voodoo hardware, so also make sure that you are running the correct one for the game you want to play. For example,
CARMAV.EXE for Carmaggedon 1. Speaking of Carmaggedon 1, the longstanding vertical black bars issue has finally been fixed as well.
https://dosbox-staging.github.io/downloads/release-notes/0.81.0-rc/#3dfx-voodoo-1-emulationWhere Is dosbox-staging.conf Located?Quick Editconf FeatureAdditionally, 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.
For anyone playing DOS games that rely heavily on mouse movements, make sure that you set
mouse_raw_input = true in your
dosbox-staging.conf file. Mouse sensitivity can also be adjusted in that .conf file via the
mouse_sensitivity setting.
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
