This is the eighth beta release of DOSBox Pure. It's a big one!

New Features of 0.9.8:

• New UI for start menu, on-screen keyboard and gamepad mapper
• Shared system shells (use one Windows 1/2/3 installation ZIP for multiple games) (documentation) (#421)
• Support libretro multiplayer with emulation and tunneling of these interfaces over the internet
  • IPX DOS driver
  • Serial Modem (configurable to be a null modem or dial-up modem)
  • NE2000 Ethernet Network Card to be used in a booted operating system.
• Add Input > Mouse Input Mode option (documentation) (#400)
  • Virtual mouse (default)
  • Direct controlled mouse (not supported by all games)
  • Touchpad mode (drag to move, tap to click, etc., best for touch screens)
  • Off (ignore mouse inputs)
• Reworked gamepad mapping
  • Instead of libretro port selection in the frontend use a preset selection in the Gamepad Mapper
  • Support gamepad mapping for all controller ports (#324)
  • Sort letter keys alphabetically in Gamepad Mapper (#335)
  • Support remapping of the On-Screen-Keyboard button (#154)
• Per game differencing disk for installed OS (documentation) (#423)
• Store a seek cache to save file for larger files in mounted ZIPs (i.e. ISO files), drastically improve loading time of zipped games
• Add SVGA memory core option (#320)
• Add 256, 512 and 1024 MB emulated memory options (#387)
• Further improvements to the ATAPI CD-ROM emulation for Windows 9x games with CD copy protection (#295)
• Add new "Overscan Border Size" video option (#180)
• Support SF2 files with OGG compressed samples (sometimes called SF3 files)
• Add support for uncompressed CHD version 5 CD images (#40)
• Add new value to the 'Start Menu' core option to use auto start without automatic shutting down of the core
• Load DOSBOX.SF2 or MT32_CONTROL.ROM/MT32_PCM.ROM from the mounted C: drive and override midi config if found (#380)
• Add "Swap Stereo Channels" audio option (#415)
• Store currently mounted disk image with auto start (#438)

Fixes in 0.9.8:

• Include CD audio player state in serialized save state (#245)
• Show files larger than 4GB in the [ Run Installed Operating System ] menu (#280)
• Fix reading ZIP files larger than 4GB (#273)
• Fix rendering issues with Voodoo in Build engine games
• Fix multiple input mappings controlling the same button/axis (#325)
• Fix performance issues due to excessive logging (#389)
• Fix booting PCJR carts (#102)
• Fix "shut down core after auto started game" and "Always show menu on startup" start menu behaviors (#437)
• Support mounting local directories with an extension in the name (#382)
• Handle "fixed" type keyword of cpu cycles config value (#357)
• Fix performance of Catacomb 3D games on default settings (#303)
• Fix performance of Robocop 3 on default settings (#434)
• Apply fix for 'Fatal Racing/Whiplash' keyboard mapping (#403)
• Apply fix for 'NBA Jam Tournament Edition' keyboard mapping (#426)
• Update DOSBox SVN (merge revisions 4481 ~ 4483)

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