Early adopter or wait for the upgrade?

[boppin]

I think the question relates to the regular public release later this year, not the betas.

Yes. The final release or Golden Master. The official 27.0.0 release.

 

[SlCKB0Y]

I have send the team of DOSBox an email and asked them what they will do when there is only Apple Silicon and no longer Intel. Unfortunately I didn't get an answer.

DOSBox is basically a dead project.

The following great forks both have Apple Silicon support:

DOSBox-X - Accurate DOS emulation for Windows, Linux, macOS, and DOS

DOSBox-X: Free, cross-platform and complete DOS, Windows 3.x and 9x emulation package

dosbox-x.com

macOS - DOSBox Staging

DOSBox Staging is a modern continuation of DOSBox with advanced features and current development practices.

www.dosbox-staging.org

 

[boppin]

DOSBox is basically a dead project.

How do you know that DOSBox is a dead project?

Thanks for the links! 😊

 

[SlCKB0Y]

How do you know that DOSBox is a dead project?

Thanks for the links! 😊

Just because they haven't had any regular releases since 2018 and since 2018 the only two releases were minor bug fixes in 2019 and 2021. Nothing has been officially announced... it's just dead in my opinion.

Both DOSBox-x and DOSBox Staging were forked from the main project in response to the main project releases falling off and both have are very current and under active development.

If you want to go beyond just DOS emulation and get really down in the weeds of x86 emulation, 86Box is awesome too. It's basically like building your own vintage PC part by part, with all the complexity and frustration that can involve:

Emulator of retro x86-based machines

86box.net

 

[PotentPeas]

How do you know that DOSBox is a dead project?

The last update was 2019. It's also been about a year since there was any activity on their source code repository, and even that was pretty minimal.

 

[Cape Dave]

The last update was 2019. It's also been about a year since there was any activity on their source code repository, and even that was pretty minimal.

Good clue. Buh bye DOSBox.

 

[boppin]

Good clue. Buh bye DOSBox.

Yeah! Very good! Let's have a look!