Software update: DOSBox 0.73

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Wednesday version 0.73 of DOSBox was released. This program is written in C/C++ and emulates a full DOS environment that has a 286 or 386 CPU in both real mode and protected mode. Furthermore, the directory emulates filesystem, xms, ems, graphics from Tandy to VESA, and a SoundBlaster or Gravis Ultra sound card. This gives you a perfect environment for ‘old’ DOS games that you still have on the shelf. DOSBox 0.73 is available for OS/2, BeOS and various Linux distributions, among others, but at the moment only the versions for Windows and Mac OS X updated to version 0.73. The full changelog is here Here are the main changes of this release:

Most noticeable changes:

  • Support for more graphics modes and cards.
  • Improved Vista support.
  • New Solution cores
  • Sound fixes and improvements for Mac OS X.
  • Lots of compatibility fixes.
  • Lots of cdrom detection improvements
  • Lots of memory (EMS/XMS) improvements
  • Various fixes and enhancements for the recompiling core.
  • Support for evdev.
  • Lots of DOS fixes
  • Slightly faster!
  • More stable

The following downloads are available:
DOSBox 0.73 for Windows
DOSBox 0.73 for Mac OS X
DOSBox 0.73 source code

Version number 0.73
Release status Final
Operating systems Windows 2000, Linux, Windows XP, macOS, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008
Website SourceForge
Download http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/download.php?main=1
License type GPL
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