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<TITLE>bochs: The Open Source IA-32 Emulation Project (Download Current Release)</TITLE>
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<BR><font face="arial, helvetica" color="#1e029a" size="4"><b>Latest release:</b> Bochs 2.3.6</font><BR><BR>
Version 2.3.6 is an intermediate (bugfix+) release. It includes a lot of bugfixes
and a few new features.<BR>
Here is a brief summary of changes :
<ul>
<li>More than 25% emulation speedup vs Bochs 2.3.5 release!<br>
Thanks to Darek Mihocka (http://www.emulators.com)<br>
for providing patches and ideas that made the speedup possible!<br>
<li>Up to 40% speedup vs Bochs 2.3.5 release with trace cache optimization!
<li>Lots of bugfixes in CPU emulation
<li>Bochs benchmarking support
<li>Added emulation of Intel SSE4.2 instruction set
</ul>
The binary packages for Linux and Windows are built with these featues :
<ul>
<li> x86-64 emulation with all optimizations enabled
<li> devices: ACPI, NE2000, PCI, SB16 and USB
<li> video: Bochs VBE and Cirrus SVGA
<li> Linux display libraries: nogui, rfb, sdl, term, x
<li> Windows display libraries: nogui, rfb, win32
</ul>
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<a href="http://bochs.cvs.sourceforge.net/bochs/bochs/CHANGES?view=markup&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup&revision=REL_2_3_6_FINAL">
Details on what has changed since version 2.3.5
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<BR><font face="arial, helvetica" color="#1e029a" size="4"><b>Previous release:</b> Bochs 2.3.5</font><BR><BR>
About a year after the last stable one we have a new intermediate (bugfix+) release.
Here is the list of changes since version 2.3:
<ul>
<li> Critical problems fixed for x86-64 support in CPU and Bochs internal debugger
<li> ACPI support
<li> The release compiled with x86-64 and ACPI
<li> Hard disk emulation supports ATA-6 (LBA48 addressing, UDMA modes)
<li> Added emulation of Intel SSE4.1 instruction set
<li> Lots of bugfixes
</ul>
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<a href="http://bochs.cvs.sourceforge.net/bochs/bochs/CHANGES?view=markup&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup&revision=REL_2_3_5_FINAL">
Details on what has changed since version 2.3
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<BR><font face="arial, helvetica" color="#1e029a" size="4"><b>Bochs Binary and Source Releases</b></font><BR><BR>
The latest release of Bochs is available in these file formats :<BR>
<ul>
<li> Win32 binary NSIS installer package (EXE)
<li> Win32 binary with P4 CPU support (ZIP) - Bochs installation is required
<li> Win32 binary with P4 + SMP support (ZIP) - Bochs installation is required
<li> Linux binary RPM
<li> Platform independant source package (TAR.GZ)
<li> Win32 specific source package prepared for MSVC (ZIP)
<li> Linux source RPM
</ul>
You can download any release since March 2001 on the
<a href="http://bochs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/topper.pl?name=See+All+Releases&url=http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.phpqmrkgroup_ideq12580">Releases Page</a>.
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<BR><font face="arial, helvetica" color="#1e029a" size="4"><b>Download CVS
Snapshot</b></font><BR><BR>
<b>CVS Snapshot:</b>
Bochs, like many other open source projects, uses CVS (Concurrent Version
System) to keep track of source code. Unlike the current release, the
CVS version of the sources contains everything the developers have written
to this date, and it can change daily (or even hourly). As a result, the
CVS version of Bochs will have more features and bug fixes than the release,
but also it may be somewhat less stable. You can decide if you prefer to go
exploring and try out our newest code, or stick with the better-tested
release.
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The CVS snapshots are provided as a convenience only. Of course, you could
also get the same information using CVS itself. Some of the benefits of
using CVS directly are: you can get any release or version, view the log
messages that say what files were changed, and make patches very easily
with "cvs diff -u".
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