DOSBox 0.74-3: How to install Windows 95?

@samo79
This was only a test because there was no source code version as currently found on os4depot.
The version runs well on Linux x86 and AOS4 PPC with minor ENDIAN problems od PPC.
The 3dfx software emulation is too heavy for AOS4 PPC machines anyway.
The code is open source. The work put in by dosbox and dosbox-staging developers and others over the years needs to be made available.
I just put together a few ‘puzzles’

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@Maijestro

Got a test release, will check

@Marek

Thanks mate, is there any chance to "merge" these new features in the kas1e port, or are they two different projects anyway?

@smarkusg
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It's casual dosbox from sourceforge, with some minor fixes (like stackcookie, adding of 1 or 2 fixes from dosbox-staging), the ones, which original authors from source forge of course didn't want to be commited.

As for dosbox-staging, it was (and probably still is?) a fork of real dosbox, where they just add lots of cosmetic, but not actual emulation code.

The one which is good to have for having wind95/7/etc to work, is dosbox-x, where author add a lot of emulation based code, but then, lately i tried it too ditch bigendian support in all the places and didnt worry about adding them back.

@kas1e

dosbox-x, dosbox-stagin, dosbox-pure ... all are based on dosbox code.
dosbox-stagin is not just cosmetic in its current versions. It even includes fixes from dosbox-x and its own improvements.
The project has changed a bit over the years.
The two projects live in symbiosis.

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where did you read that ? windows 7 ?
Only DOS overlays work - Win95,Win98,WinME. There is not the slightest chance that something works with newer versions of

@smarkusg

Not that it all important much, but:

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I know of course, how can i made a port before without knowing what come and from where ?:)

I did dosbox port exactly on the times when dosbox-stagin and dosbox-x forks happens, because of no updates happens on original dosbox. And on vogon's forum there were even times when dosbox-stagin authors were banned, as generate to much fuzz about not important things they do.

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When dosbox-staging fork happens, they do nothing important but fixing compiles warnings, clean the code by some auto-checkers on errors, replacing code to be more good looking, but real code, coming just from other forks which they just include. They didn't do any emulation based code (at least few years ago) but mostly cosmetic and including of fixes from other forks.

As for dosbox-x, yeah, windows7 is mistake, only 95/98/me. But when i follow his commit history, he did real hardcore work on emulation code, not like dosbox-staging fork authors did.