Bochs News

• December 10, 2001: ">Bochs 1.3 is now available
• November 17, 2001: ">Bochs 1.3.pre1 is now available.
• June 24, 2001: Thanks to Psyon, Bochs in the CVS now has CD-ROM support under Win9x.
• June 16, 2001: ">Bochs 1.2.1 is now available.
• June 3, 2001: ">Bochs 1.2 is now available in both source and binary form. Read all about this major new release over here.
• May 23, 2001: Activity Update - Less than a month after the transfer to Sourceforge, Bochs has reached the top of the SourceForge project activity chart! Thanks to Todd T. Fries for the update.
• May 22, 2001: Bochs is number two on the SourceForge project activity chart today!
• May 17, 2001: ">Bochs 1.1.2 is released, fixing several bugs found in the previous Bugfix2 release.
• May 12, 2001: After hovering around 10th place on the SourceForge activity rankings for the better part of a week, Bochs moves up even further! Bochs is listed as the 6th most active project on SF today.
• May 11, 2001: Our new site is released with more information, a new screen shots section, CVS nightly tarballs, and much more!
• May 3, 2001: We are trying to gather a screenshot gallery of Bochs in action. If you have a screenshot you would like to share, please e-mail it to Tim Butler.
  
• May 3, 2001: Actual transition to bochs.sourceforge.net takes place.
• May 2, 2001: The bochs-developers@redhat.com mailing list has moved to bochs-developers@lists.sourceforge.net. Please use the sourceforge list, since the redhat one will soon be shut down. If you want to subscribe to the new list, go here.
• Apr 30, 2001: With support from Kevin Lawton, Bochs development has moved to bochs.sourceforge.net. Look for new releases, CVS access, bug tracking, and more on the SourceForge pages. The mailing list is still hosted at redhat.com, but will soon be switched to SF as well.
• Apr 9, 2001: Bryce Denney collected patches from bochs-developers mailing list and sourceforge to create the Bugfix2 release.
• Nov 14, 2000: Bochs.com moves to new ISP, FastXS.net.
• Mar 22, 2000: MandrakeSoft buys Bochs for Linux and commits it to Open Source.  Bochs now has the LGPL license.
• Jan 4, 2000: New release: Integrated FPU emulator into main bochs source; FPU emulation now works on big-endian machines (tested on SPARC).
• Nov 14, 1999: New release: CDROM emulation works on Win32.  Some Win32 cleanup.  CALL instruction fix.
• Nov 11, 1999: New release: Sound Blaster 16 emulation integrated.
• Nov 2, 1999: New release: WinNT4.0 installs in bochs from CDROM. More Win32 mods integrated.
• Oct 23, 1999: New release: More fixes to CPU emulation. CDROM also works on OpenBSD. Mac update.
• Oct 14, 1999: New release: CDROM emulation now works (only Linux so far).
• Oct 12, 1999: New release: Moved default to Pentium emulation, added x86 hardware debug features, more Pentium mods, ...
• Oct 4, 1999: New release: Partial Pentium emulation. Windows'95/Linux boot and recognize Pentium emulation.
• Sep 25, 1999: New release: Minix boots again. Fixes to BIOS, floppy, and Makefiles.
• Sep 23, 1999: New release: Fixes/enhancements for VGA, debugger, floppy.
• Sep 20, 1999: New release: Bochs now compiles with wm-FPU-emu , for users who need direct floating point support.
• Sep 7, 1999: New release includes minor bug fixes.
• Sep 7, 1999: FreeMWare is off to good start, with code releases already. CVS services are now available to the development team.
• Jul 8, 1999: New release includes a bunch of changes
• May 17, 1999: I (Kevin Lawton) will be at Linux Expo '99.
• Apr 30, 1999: Developer submits Sound Blaster 16 emulation.
• Mar 12, 1999: First test release with dynamic translation!
• Mar 11, 1999: Developer submits NE2000 network card emulation.
• Feb 19, 1999: New release includes a number of submitted diffs.
• Jan 27, 1999: Rehashed CPU to separate fetch-decode/address-resolve/execute phases.
• Jan 10, 1999: Bochs now compiles under BeOS R4 x86 with gcc.
• Dec xx, 1998: Bochs is ported to the Mac by David Batterham.

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