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Release Notes: Many enhancements were made, such various CPU emulation speed-ups, support for new x86 ISA extensions, support for AMD's SVM hardware emulation, PCI network boot ROM support for all network adapters, new and improved devices, and much more. Various bugs were fixed.

Release Notes: The configuration and CPU subsystems were reworked, allowing you to enable or disable CPU options at runtime through .bochsrc. Bugs were fixed for CPU emulation correctness and stability. X2APIC extensions were implemented. Intel VMXx2 extensions were implemented. New features include Extended VMX capability MSRs, APIC Virtualization, X2APIC Virtualization, Extended Page Tables (EPT), VPID, Unrestricted Guests, and new VMX controls. The PCLMULQDQ AES instruction was implemented. The Bochs internal debugger functionality was extended. USB HP DeskJet 920C printer device emulation was added.

  •  29 Dec 2002 23:07

Release Notes: This release features a speedup for the emulation by 2x, and new plugin devices and GUIs. Now you can compile with many more options, and choose between them at runtime. Emulation of AMD x86-64, MMX, SSE, and SSE2 instructions was added, along with a wxWindows port and an SVGAlib port. There are improvements to many I/O devices: Bochs now supports up to 8 hard disks/CDROMs, a TUN/TAP network interface, and 360k floppies. The MacOSX/Carbon interface was improved and the MacOS9 port was updated. The GDB remote stub allows symbolic debugging with Bochs simulation.

  •  31 Mar 2002 19:27

No changes have been submitted for this release.

  •  11 Dec 2001 17:33

Release Notes: This release has support for networking and parallel ports, native Mac OS X and MorphOS support, improved BeOS support, a new easy to use menu-based configuration system, improvements to device handling and CPU functions, and many other improvements.

  •  04 Jun 2001 10:59

Release Notes: Error handling was improved. Binaries are now available. Output messages were improved. An interactive disk image creator was added. SMP emulation was implemented. The documentation (including man pages) was improved. VNC remote viewer support, dual virtual hard drive support, and a text mode interface were also added.

  •  31 May 2001 18:18

Release Notes: This release adds friendly error output, adjustment of handling for panics, binary releases for Linux x86, Linux Alpha, and Win32, and DLX-Linux Disk Image in all binary copies.

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