Fixed shelf view alignment and showing-up-at-allness in Snow Leopard.
Fixed sluggish startup speed in recent betas.
Fixed configuration file breakage after raising or lowering the speed in-game. (If a game has become very slow and has a massive cycles number, delete its DOSBox Preferences.conf file.)
More workarounds for an elusive Finder crash bug.
Added Finnish and Swedish localisations and updated Dutch localisation.
Default emulation settings are now handled internally, instead of in ~/Library/Preferences/Boxer/DOSBox Preferences.conf.
That in turn has now been replaced by Shared Preferences.conf, which is for your own personal settings.
Fixes for crash bugs in Snow Leopard (firing blind here, anyone with 10.6 please test and report any remaining bugs.)
Workaround fix for a longstanding Finder crash bug.
Disabled the 0.85 localisations until they are complete and up-to-date for 0.86. (You can re-enable these through the Get Info window for Boxer.app if you want.)
Growl notifications will now appear on OS X 10.4 (you will need Growl installed.)
Fixed an everything-greyed-out bug in file picker windows.
Boxer’s utilities and drivers are now internal to Boxer, instead of being loaded from your DOS Utilities folder. (After upgrading, you can trash the old REQUIRED and ULTRASND folders from DOS Utilities.)
Your DOS Utilities folder is now accessible at Y:\UTILS, instead of Y:\.
(NOTE FOR BOXER 0.9 USERS: this version is not based on Boxer 0.9, and does not include its interface improvements.)
Many improvements to the game installation process.
Improved warnings for Windows-only programs, which you can now dismiss to run the program anyway.
Improved behaviour when the DOS Games folder is moved or deleted: Boxer now lets you point out a new location.
(NOTE FOR BOXER 0.9 USERS: this version is not based on Boxer 0.9, and does not include its interface improvements.)
Boxer 0.9 beta (build 20090320-1) — OS X 10.5 only!2009-03-20T21:15:00+02:00http://boxerapp.com/releases/0.9-20090320-110.5
Added Help menu items for Mobygames and ReplacementDocs, which will search for the current game package (if any) at those sites.
Removed boxing-gloves badge from dock icon when running a game package.
Boxer 0.9 beta (build 20090318-1) — OS X 10.5 only!2009-03-18T21:15:00+02:00http://boxerapp.com/releases/0.9-20090318-110.5
Boxer now looks for game documentation (PDFs, textfiles, images) in packages and lists them in the Help menu. If you make a Documentation folder inside a package then only its contents will be used, otherwise Boxer will trawl the whole package.
Added download prompt for Perian plugin, which appears after recording a video if you don't have software for playing DOSBox-encoded videos.
Added “Don’t ask me again” checkbox on quit confirmation.
Fixed crash bug when exiting from the DOS command line.
Fixed an incorrect string in Applescript. (*shudder*)
Boxer 0.9 beta (build 20090316-1) — OS X 10.5 only!2009-03-16T19:30:00+02:00http://boxerapp.com/releases/0.9-20090316-110.5
Reintroduced DOSBox’s snapshot and video-recording features with a menu of their own. Because of the funky video format used, you will need Perian or VLC to play back the videos this produces.
Original rendering style is now sharper at larger sizes.
Pressing Esc will now exit from fullscreen mode when there is no program running.
Added fullscreen [true/false] DOS command, letting you toggle to and from fullscreen mode via command line or batch file.
Tweaked menu arrangements and fixed a few cosmetic issues.
Boxer 0.9 beta (build 20090313-1) — OS X 10.5 only!2009-03-13T19:30:00+02:00http://boxerapp.com/releases/0.9-20090313-110.5
Redesigned CPU speed slider with more precision and a wider range of speeds. Go bunny go!
Speed indicator also shows a CPU range (386, 486 etc.) equivalent to the current speed.
Added zoom effect when switching to and from fullscreen.
Added shortcut keys for rendering styles (Cmd-1 to Cmd-5.)
Resizes the window if you choose a rendering style for which the window is too small.
(Mostly) fixed MIDI music hanging while menus are displayed or window is resized.
(Mostly) fixed duplicate cursor after resizing or dismissing a menu over the DOS window.
Fixed cursor occasionally disappearing when returning from fullscreen.
Fixed incorrect fullscreen resolution when multiple displays are present.
Fixed crash when opening a game package while another is open.
Boxer 0.9 beta (build 20090310-1) — OS X 10.5 only!2009-03-10T19:30:00+02:00http://boxerapp.com/releases/0.9-20090310-110.5
Improved image sharpness in 4:3 aspect mode, again.
Applied smoothing filter at low scales also (< 2×).
Fixed a number of filtering bugs, some of which may have existed before I started fixing them.
Improved menu option names.
Significantly refactored code for my own morbid satisfaction.
Fixed a number of small feature regressions from previous refactoring escapades.
Boxer 0.9 beta (build 20090306-1) — OS X 10.5 only!2009-03-06T19:30:00+02:00http://boxerapp.com/releases/0.9-20090306-110.5
Added View menu options for choosing graphics filter (scaler) and toggling aspect-ratio correction. (These are global settings for now, but will later be remembered on a per-game basis too.)
Turned aspect-ratio correction on by default for authenticity’s sake (thanks to the evangelism of JK Laiho.)
Graphics filters are now applied to high-resolution graphics modes at large window sizes.
Improved sharpness of bilinear-filtering.
Boxer 0.9 beta (build 20090301-1) — OS X 10.5 only!2009-03-01T19:30:00+02:00http://boxerapp.com/releases/0.9-20090301-110.5
Fixed a crash when using an unrecognised OS X input language
Fixed a few performance regressions and silly bugs
Fixed ugly OpenGL bilinear-filtering seam in fullscreen mode
Improved window behaviour to prevent unnecessary resizing animations at startup
Renamed "frameskip" to "frame rate" and flipped the keyboard shortcuts for it, to hopefully make it more logical
All the major changes from the last build: see http://boxerapp.com/betacast for details
Boxer 0.9 beta (build 20090226-1) — OS X 10.5 only!2009-02-26T16:30:00+02:00http://boxerapp.com/releases/0.9-20090226-110.5
Major improvements to DOS window UI:
OS X menu is now actually useful, with emulation controls, window settings and help/contact links.
DOS windows are fully resizable/zoomable, and remember their sizes and positions for each game package.
Bilinear filtering is only applied when needed, to keep graphics as crisp as possible.
CPU speed controls are streamlined and improved, allowing finer adjustments at lower speeds and easy toggling of maximised CPU speed.
Windows have a hideable statusbar with mouse-lock toggle and speed slider.
DOS windows show a confirmation sheet when closing the game window.
The window titlebar is badged with the gamebox’s name and icon.
Boxer’s dock icon is replaced with the gamebox’s icon (if available) while the game is running.
Ctrl-click now properly simulates a right-click (previously this used Cmd-click).
Improvements to game emulation and DOS environment:
CD audio now plays properly, hurrah!
DOS shell commands improved: better handling of arguments, clearer error messages and expanded usage descriptions.
Drive mounting prevents system folders from being mounted.
Auto-configuration for Fallout, Warcraft II and Wings of Glory.
Improvements to game installation and detection:
Program-picker tries to highlight a suitable default program for you when launching a new gamebox.
Game installer droplet accepts dropping .iso and .cdr disc images.
Game installer droplet no longer tries to do silly things like packaging up your Desktop or Downloads folder.
When running an installer from a regular folder, Boxer will now
mount that folder as both CD and floppy drive, and will import its contents into the game package if appropriate (this should fix problems installing from abandonware CD rips, among other cases.)
Game detection works as intended on case-sensitive filesystems.
The term “game package” has been changed to “gamebox”, and “installing” to “boxing” (this latter change is tentative.)
Force permissions on folders created by DOS to match those of their containing package. This fixes problems when sharing games between user profiles. You’ll still need to ensure that the other profiles have read/write access to the game package itself.
Addressed minor installation issue that could cause helper applets to be installed, deleted and installed again.
For more explicit control over game installation, hold down ⌥ as you drop a game onto the installer droplet. Useful for those times when Boxer Gets It Wrong.