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DOSBox 0.74 Released

Posted by Rampant Coyote on May 13, 2010

DOSBox just got updated

Not that this makes a huge difference – I’m still running on an ancient version of the software (0.65?) and it runs amazingly well. In fact, I’d say it runs DOS games better than about any real DOS machine I ever owned / used. But they just made a great thing even better.

This really shows my age, but reading the changelog is like a visit back to my college days. Technically, even back to my high school days, but I still using a Commodore 64 back then and was fairly ignorant of the “IBM Compatibles” of the late 80’s.  But reading about things like the GUS (Gravis UltraSound), Adlib, Tandy, PCjr, and the old Hercules and CGA adapters (an era I skipped entirely, but still saw the last vestiges of in my games) – man, that took me back.

Man, PC gaming really sucked back then.

But many of the games themselves were pretty awesome.


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  • Wavinator said,

    I know what you mean about being taken back. For some reason the other day I was thinking about phrases like “Quarterdeck Expanded Memory Manager,” “Terminate and Stay Resident” programs and the whole bizarre mess of switching out memory settings just to get the new game you bought to run.

    Heh, those were the days– not.

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