v13 feature freeze end of Friday 13th October

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v13 feature freeze end of Friday 13th October

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v13 development seems to be going on forever, so I'm giving it an end date.

I'm aiming feature freeze for the end of Friday the 13th of October (thanks iwasaperson!). Any feature patches posted after then won't be considered for the release - obviously bugfixes are still welcome! That will then give a few weeks for bug fixing + general code hardening before a release sometime in November.
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Re: v13 feature freeze end of Sunday 8th October

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The more features the emulation has over v12, the better...

...and the more crippling my disk space will be.

Appreciate the work that has gone into it, Sarah.
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Cool news. :)
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V13? This can't possibly be good... I'd suggest going straight to version 14...

But OTOH, it's amazing how far did PCem go since its early days... Congratulations and thanks!
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Sweet :) cant wait.

Thanks to everyone for their hard work
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Couldn't make it just a few days later?
V13 freeze on Friday the 13th, which also happens to be in October.
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The S3TC patent expires on Oct 2. If someone can bring in working S3 Savage3D emulation between 2 and 8 it'd be crazy awesome timing
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leilei wrote:The S3TC patent expires on Oct 2. If someone can bring in working S3 Savage3D emulation between 2 and 8 it'd be crazy awesome timing
I agree, Despite being known for bad drivers quality.

Also, add Savage4 emulation would be nice.
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iwasaperson wrote:Couldn't make it just a few days later?
V13 freeze on Friday the 13th, which also happens to be in October.
Ooh, nice idea!
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Savage4 is on my list for some point in the future, as I got given a Savage4 LT a while ago. Even I'm not mad enough to try to emulate it in the next two weeks though.
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SarahWalker wrote:Savage4 is on my list for some point in the future, as I got given a Savage4 LT a while ago. Even I'm not mad enough to try to emulate it in the next two weeks though.
Okay. Thanks!
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Hello everyone.

I would like thanks to the devs for PCEM.
I it's awesome PC emulator, mainly because it is possible to create Hard Disk image files and install software like in real machines of it's day.

Sorry if repeating information of older posts, i don't know if they were closed.

I recently discovered tath the Vtech Laser XT/3 has an 8086 Cpu not an 8088 like the Vtech Laser Turbo XT.

if i may ask, it is possible to change it to 8086?

Here is the Manual of the Laser XT/3 machine:
http://www.minuszerodegrees.net/manuals ... Manual.pdf.
on page 84 it says it has an 8086-1 cpu.

And the Manual of the Laser Turbo XT machine:
http://www.minuszerodegrees.net/manuals ... Manual.pdf
Has an 8088-1 instead of 8086, it is explained on page 14.

And ask if it is possible to add The Hercules Blend Patch, this pacth is not mine it was developed in 2010 by ripsaw8080 for dosbox.
But it was merged in Dosbox-Daum versions only which are no longer under development.
I had a Hercules graphics card with an amber phosphor monitor and it looks very close to the original.

I attached the diff file. I don't know if it's file is useful or if it can be modified to work with PCEM, because i'm not a programmer.
I added two screenshoots ther post called "Hercules Blend Patch",to compare the how it looks with and without the patch it can be enabled or disabled when need with a combination key SVN daum versions of Dosbox.

Thanks again!
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Fenix77 wrote:Hello everyone.

I would like thanks to the devs for PCEM.
I it's awesome PC emulator, mainly because it is possible to create Hard Disk image files and install software like in real machines of it's day.

Sorry if repeating information of older posts, i don't know if they were closed.

I recently discovered tath the Vtech Laser XT/3 has an 8086 Cpu not an 8088 like the Vtech Laser Turbo XT.

if i may ask, it is possible to change it to 8086?

Here is the Manual of the Laser XT/3 machine:
http://www.minuszerodegrees.net/manuals ... Manual.pdf.
on page 84 it says it has an 8086-1 cpu.

And the Manual of the Laser Turbo XT machine:
http://www.minuszerodegrees.net/manuals ... Manual.pdf
Has an 8088-1 instead of 8086, it is explained on page 14.

And ask if it is possible to add The Hercules Blend Patch, this pacth is not mine it was developed in 2010 by ripsaw8080 for dosbox.
But it was merged in Dosbox-Daum versions only which are no longer under development.
I had a Hercules graphics card with an amber phosphor monitor and it looks very close to the original.

I attached the diff file. I don't know if it's file is useful or if it can be modified to work with PCEM, because i'm not a programmer.
I added two screenshoots ther post called "Hercules Blend Patch",to compare the how it looks with and without the patch it can be enabled or disabled when need with a combination key SVN daum versions of Dosbox.

Thanks again!
I'm agree that the Laser XT3 has 8086 CPU.
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Re: v13 feature freeze end of Friday 13th October

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The only feature I think that could be in before the freeze is emulating the overscan area. Games like Commander Keen are missing their cyan borders and all those CRT shaders clip of the edge of text a little too much
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iwasaperson wrote:Couldn't make it just a few days later?
V13 freeze on Friday the 13th, which also happens to be in October.
Great, perhaps PCem can have codenames which Sarah can put in the title bar to make sure we don't forget. I was going to put some examples here, but I am not creative enough?
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And we're frozen! Thanks to everyone who's submitted patches, I'll work my way through the remaining ones over the next few days then get on with bug fixing.
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Sweet!!! Thank You Sarah!!! :D
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Can anyone tell me what feature freeze exactly means? I always assumed that Sarah wouldn't add any new features/bugs start of October, but it seems that this is not the case.
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It is the case. There hasn't been any more new features since the 13th of October. The last feature added was the AudioPCI. The prime focus is bugfixing and reporting to harden the release for a more stable state (which I know is a pretty alien concept in many many many many places)

Note that the speed patch I submitted earlier this month is not in mind for v13. It should be ignored in this stage of development.
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Thanks for clarifying.
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