Bug#973822: ITP: dosbox-staging -- DOSBox Staging is a full x86 CPU emulator (independent of host architecture), capable of running DOS programs that require real or protected mode.
On Thu, 05 Nov 2020 21:52:10 +0000 Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> DOSBox seems to be under active development even though it hasn't had a
> release for a while. So this is an independent fork, not a successor
> to a dead project. (If DOSBox had become dead upstream, I would have
> recommended rebasing the existing dosbox source package on DOSBox
> Staging instead.)
The last commit to the DOSBox SVN repository (
https://sourceforge.net/p/dosbox/code-0/HEAD/) is dated March 10th, 2023, previous one is July 14th, 2022. Looking at their bug tracker - since about mid January 2020 no bug reported was closed, hardly any of them got any response from the DOSBox team. The latest news on their web page (
https://www.dosbox.com/) is dated January 27th 2021. The previous one (June 26th, 2019) states:
> Ideally, 0.75 should have been released by now, but some bugs took a lot longer than expected.
This was 4 years ago, release did not happen to this day. DOSBox was the best thing that happened to DOS retro-gamers, it severed us well for two decades, but it is now a 0xDEAD 0xBEEF.
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DOSBox Staging and DOSBox-X are two really actively developed forks/successors - Staging progresses more carefully, has less features, but in my experience is more stable; X is harder to configure properly, and more like yolo-developed (but still fun to use by power users!).
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