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<img src="images/logo.gif" alt="A Window, Tux, and the BSD Daemon" width="160" height="175" align="right">
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<BR><font face="arial, helvetica" color="#1e029a" size="4"><b>Bochs 2.0 is
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Coming!</b></font><BR>
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This page describes the latest progress as we move toward releasing Bochs 2.0.
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Please check it periodically, because it will change regularly.
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<p>
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<BR><font face="arial, helvetica" color="#1e029a" size="4"><b>What's new?
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</b></font><BR>
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Our last release was Bochs 1.4.1 on June 23 of this year. Since then there
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has been a LOT of development activity, especially since mid-August. Here's
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a summary.
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<li> CPU optimizations boost simulation speed by around 2x. (Kevin Lawton)
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<li> Bochs now supports up to 8 hard drives, or 8 CDROMs, or any combination
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(Christophe Bothamy)
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<li> The wxWindows interface has grown so that you can edit all bochsrc
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parameters using menus and dialog boxes (Bryce Denney)
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<li> Added support for the AMD x86-64 instruction set used in their Hammer processor (Peter Tattam)
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<li> Added support for MMX instructions (Stanislav Shwartzman)
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<li> Added support for SSE and SSE2 instructions (Stanislav Shwartzman)
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<li> Remote GDB stub support (Johan Rydberg, Stu Grossman)
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<li> Added plugin support for Linux, Solaris, MacOS X, and Cygwin. Plugins
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allow you to compile Bochs with support for many options and load the
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pieces that you want at runtime.
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</ul>
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<BR><font face="arial, helvetica" color="#1e029a" size="4"><b>The Release
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Process </b></font><BR>
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Before the 2.0 release is finalized, a few things need to happen. First, the
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developers declare a feature freeze, during which only bug fixes will be
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added to the CVS. The feature freeze began around the first of November,
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and will continue until the release is ready. During the feature freeze, we
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focus on testing Bochs in all sorts of configurations, fixing bugs, updating
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documentation, and generally cleaning things up. The freeze will last until we
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have some confidence that the most critical bugs have been fixed or worked
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around, and that Bochs will compile and work on all supported platforms. <p>
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During this time, the Source Forge bug/feature/patch trackers are very
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important and very useful. Any bug that we intend to fix before the 2.0
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release should be marked with Group="to be fixed in v2.0". At the time of
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release, there will be no more open bugs, features, or patches marked for v2.0.
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All items that are marked for v2.0 will be either fixed (and closed), or
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postponed by changing their Group marking to something else like "long range
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goal". Using the bug database helps to ensure that nothing important gets
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forgotten. When you're looking at the Source Forge database, you can click on
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the Group box and select just the items that are selected for v2.0. <p>
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As the release approaches, we make some pre-release versions with binaries so
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that it's easy for people to try out the new features and check if we've broken
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anything. These will be called 2.0.pre1, 2.0.pre2, etc. Meanwhile, we
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continue fixing things, cleaning up, and trying very hard not to add more bugs
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in the process. Eventually the developers will agree that we've done enough
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testing and we should go ahead and call it 2.0.
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<p>
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Click to see <a href="http://bochs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/topper.pl?name=Report+a+Bug&url=http://sourceforge.net/tracker/qmrkgroup_ideq12580ampatideq112580">Bug Reports</a>. <br>
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Click to see <a href="http://bochs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/topper.pl?name=Request+a+Feature&url=http://sourceforge.net/tracker/qmrkatideq362580ampgroup_ideq12580ampfunceqbrowse">Feature Requests</a>. <br>
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Click to see <a href="http://bochs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/topper.pl?name=Patches&url=http://sourceforge.net/tracker/qmrkatideq312580ampgroup_ideq12580ampfunceqbrowse">Patches</a>. <br>
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<BR><font face="arial, helvetica" color="#1e029a" size="4"><b>Try out
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a Pre-Release </b></font><BR>
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<th>Date</th>
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<th>Version</th>
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<th>Description</th>
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<th>Download</th>
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<td rowspan=6>2002-11-19</td>
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<td rowspan=6>Bochs 2.0.pre2</td>
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<td>Bochs source code</td>
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<td><a href="http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/bochs/bochs-2.0.pre2.tar.gz">1.9meg</a></td>
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</tr>
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<td>Source RPM for Linux (all architectures)</td>
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<td><a
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href="http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/bochs/bochs-2.0.pre2.src.rpm">1.9meg</a></td>
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</tr>
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<td>Binary RPM for x86 Linux. This RPM was built on a Redhat 8.0 system. It
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was compiled with plugins, CDROM, SB emulation, NE2000, VBE,
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all speed optimizations, PCI, MMX, SSE, and SSE2. The default display
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library is X11, but you can also select between SDL, term, RFB, wxWindows, or no
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gui using the display_library option in bochsrc.
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</td>
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<td><a href="http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/bochs/bochs-2.0.pre2.i386.rpm">2.1meg</a></td>
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<td>Binary RPM for x86 Linux, compiled for Redhat 7.3.
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</td>
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<td><a href="http://bochs.sf.net/tmp/bochs-2.0.pre2.redhat73.i386.rpm">2.1meg</a></td>
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</tr>
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<td>ZIP file with Win32 binaries. The binaries were compiled with MS VC++ 6.0,
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with CDROM, SB emulation, NE2000, VBE, and all speed optimizations.
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</td>
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<td><a href="http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/bochs/bochs-2.0.pre2.win32-bin.zip">2.3meg</a></td>
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<td>ZIP file with Bochs source code configured for MS VC++ 6.0 (win32). You can
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unzip this file, load up the MS VC++ workspace "bochs.dsw" and just click on
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Build.
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</td>
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<td><a href="http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/bochs/bochs-2.0.pre2.win32-src.zip">2.3meg</a></td>
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<td rowspan=3>2002-11-14</td>
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<td rowspan=3>Bochs 2.0.pre1</td>
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<td>Bochs source code</td>
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<td><a href="http://twtelecom.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/bochs/bochs-2.0.pre1.tar.gz">1.9meg</a></td>
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<td>Source RPM for Linux (all architectures)</td>
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<td><a href="http://twtelecom.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/bochs/bochs-2.0.pre1.src.rpm">1.8meg</a></td>
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<td>Binary RPM for x86 Linux. This RPM was built on a Redhat 6.2 system. It
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was compiled with support for X windows, CDROM, SB emulation, NE2000, VBE, and
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all speed optimizations.</td>
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<td><a href="http://twtelecom.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/bochs/bochs-2.0.pre1.i386.rpm">1.8meg</a></td>
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<td rowspan=7>2002-09-07</td>
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<td rowspan=7>wxWindows 2.3.3</td>
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The main wxWindows site is at <a href="http://wxwindows.org">http://wxwindows.org/</a>. Bochs works best with version 2.3.3. A few binary packages
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that have been tested with Bochs are listed below. If you find a binary that
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matches your system, try it. Otherwise, look on the wxWindows web site and see
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what you can find.
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</td>
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<td> </td>
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Source RPM for Linux (all architectures)
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<td><a href="http://twtelecom.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/wxwindows/wxGTK-2.3.3-1.src.rpm">4.8meg</a></td>
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Binary RPM for x86 Linux, containing wxWindows dynamic libraries.
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This RPM was compiled on an x86 machine running Redhat Linux 8.0.
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</td>
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<td><a href="http://bochs.sourceforge.net/tmp/wxwindows/binaries/linux/redhat80/wxGTK-2.3.3-1.i386.rpm">2.3meg</a></td>
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Binary RPM for x86 Linux, containing wxWindows static libraries.
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This RPM was compiled on an x86 machine running Redhat Linux 8.0.
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</td>
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<td><a href="http://bochs.sourceforge.net/tmp/wxwindows/binaries/linux/redhat80/wxGTK-static-2.3.3-1.i386.rpm">2.2meg</a></td>
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Binary RPM for x86 Linux, containing header files that you need to
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compile any wxWindows application. This RPM was compiled on an x86 machine
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running Redhat Linux 8.0. 551k.
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</td>
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<td><a href="http://bochs.sourceforge.net/tmp/wxwindows/binaries/linux/redhat80/wxGTK-devel-2.3.3-1.i386.rpm">551k</a></td>
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ZIP file with Cygwin libraries, release version. These were compiled
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without debug support.
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</td>
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<td><a href="http://bochs.sourceforge.net/tmp/wxwindows/binaries/cygwin/wxMSW-2.3.3-cygwinlib-release.tar.gz">3.6meg</a></td>
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ZIP file with Cygwin libraries, debug version. These were compiled
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with debug support so they are useful if you are doing any kind of
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wxWindows development.
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<td><a href="http://bochs.sourceforge.net/tmp/wxwindows/binaries/cygwin/wxMSW-2.3.3-cygwinlib-release.tar.gz">8.8meg</a></td>
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<td>2002-10-06</td>
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<td>SDL 1.4.5</td>
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The SDL library can be downloaded from <a
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href="http://libsdl.org">http://libsdl.org</a>. Bochs has been tested most
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with 1.2.4, but get the most recent version you can find.
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<td>2002-11-14</td>
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<td>Bochs 2.0.pre1</td>
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Description of what the heck it is
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