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<img src="images/logo.gif" alt="A Window, Tux, and the BSD Daemon" width="160" height="175" align="right">
<BR><font face="arial, helvetica" color="#1e029a" size="4"><b>Latest release:</b> Bochs 2.4.5</font><BR><BR>
<BR><font face="arial, helvetica" color="#1e029a" size="4"><b>Latest release:</b> Bochs 2.4.6</font><BR><BR>
Version 2.4.5 is a bugfix+ release. Here is the summary of changes :
Version 2.4.6 is a bugfix+ release. Here is the summary of changes :
<ul>
<li> Support more host OS to run on:
<ul>
<li> Include win64 native binary in the release.
<li> Fixed failures on big endian hosts.
</ul>
<li> BIOS: Support for up to 2M ROM BIOS images.
<li> GUI: select mouse capture toggle method in .bochsrc.
<li> Ported most of Qemu's 'virtual VFAT' block driver<br>
(except runtime write support, but plus FAT32 suppport)
<li> Added write protect option for floppy drives.
<li> Bugfixes / improved internal debugger + instrumentation.
</ul>
The binary packages for Linux and Windows are built with these featues :
<ul>
<li> x86-64 emulation with all optimizations enabled
<li> devices:
<ul>
<li> chipset: PCI, ACPI
<li> video: Bochs VBE and Cirrus SVGA
<li> sound: SB16
<li> network: NE2000 (ISA/PCI)
<li> USB: OHCI, UHCI and 6 device types
</ul>
<li> Display libraries:
<ul>
<li> Linux: nogui, rfb, sdl, term, wx, x
<li> Windows: nogui, rfb, win32
</ul>
</ul>
<a href="http://bochs.cvs.sourceforge.net/bochs/bochs/CHANGES?view=markup&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup&revision=REL_2_4_6_FINAL">
Details on what has changed since version 2.4.5
</a>
<BR/><BR/>
<BR><font face="arial, helvetica" color="#1e029a" size="4"><b>Previous release:</b> Bochs 2.4.5</font><BR><BR>
<ul>
<li> Major configure/cpu rework allowing to enable/disable CPU options at runtime
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<li> USB HP DeskJet 920C printer device emulation (Ben Lunt)
</ul>
The binary packages for Linux and Windows are built with these featues :
<ul>
<li> x86-64 emulation with all optimizations enabled
<li> devices:
<ul>
<li> chipset: PCI, ACPI
<li> video: Bochs VBE and Cirrus SVGA
<li> sound: SB16
<li> network: NE2000 (ISA/PCI)
<li> USB: OHCI, UHCI and 6 device types
</ul>
<li> Display libraries:
<ul>
<li> Linux: nogui, rfb, sdl, term, x
<li> Windows: nogui, rfb, win32
</ul>
</ul>
<BR>
<a href="http://bochs.cvs.sourceforge.net/bochs/bochs/CHANGES?view=markup&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup&revision=REL_2_4_5_FINAL">
Details on what has changed since version 2.4.2
</a>
<BR/><BR/>
<BR><font face="arial, helvetica" color="#1e029a" size="4"><b>Previous release:</b> Bochs 2.4.2</font><BR><BR>
<ul>
<li> CPU and internal debugger
<ul>
<li> VMX: implemented TPR shadow VMEXIT
<li> Bugfixes for CPU emulation correctness (mostly for VMX support).
<li> Bugfixes and updates for Bochs internal debugger
<ul>
<li> On SMP system stepN command now affects only current processor
</ul>
</ul>
<li> Memory modelling
<ul>
<li> Bugfixes for > 32-bit physical address space.
<li> Allow to emulate more physical memory than host actually could or would like to allocate.
</ul>
<li> I/O Devices Bugfixes
<ul>
<li> Bugfixes for 8254 PIT, VGA, Cirrus-Logic SVGA, USB UCHI
</ul>
<li> Cleanup configure options
<ul>
<li> Many configure options are deprecated and determined automatically from the others
</ul>
</ul>
<BR>
<a href="http://bochs.cvs.sourceforge.net/bochs/bochs/CHANGES?view=markup&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup&revision=REL_2_4_2_FINAL">
Details on what has changed since version 2.4.1
</a>
<BR><BR>
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<ul>
<li> Win32 binary NSIS installer package (EXE)
<li> Win32 binary with x86-64 CPU + SMP support (ZIP) - Bochs installation is required
<li> Linux binary RPM
<li> Win64 binary - Bochs installation is required
<li> Linux binary RPM (32 / 64 bit)
<li> Platform independant source package (TAR.GZ)
<li> Win32 specific source package prepared for MSVC (ZIP)
<li> Linux source RPM