This is the second beta release of DOSBox Pure.

Changes in 0.9.1:

• Fix gamepad mapper unable to map mouse left click (#57)
• Add option to set menu transparency of on-screen-keyboard and gamepad mapper (#57)
• Show keyboard key characters in Gamepad Mapper (#57)
• Support holding scroll keys in menus (#57)
• Improve mounting and booting from hard disk images
• Minor improvements to booting Windows 9x (still crashes on multi-tasking)

The previous version was a big update with improvements and new features, thus the switch to the new version numbering and beta tag.

Gamepad Mapper

If you need even more customization of the controls than provided by the Automated controller mappings, or the various presets for mouse, keyboard and joysticks you can use the new gamepad mapper.

To open it, click the "PAD MAPPER" button in the On-screen keyboard

It is available any time in-game and changes are immediately saved and applied when closing the mapper. Up to 4 functions can be mapped for any button/direction of the gamepad. A mapping can be to any function of the 3 emulated input devices: keyboard, mouse or joystick.

Issue link for feedback: #57

Directly run PC booter games from the start menu

This also adds support for swapping floppy disk images (or PCjr cartridges) at runtime via a frontend's Disc Control menu and hotkeys.

Issue link for feedback: #102

Support loading of dosbox.conf files

DOSBox Pure can boot directly from a .conf file or it will load C:\DOSBOX.CONF automatically if it exists in the mounted ZIP or path.

Issue link for feedback: #209

Don't enter solo root directory when mounting ZIP files

When mounting a ZIP file which has just a single directory in its root, the core used to mount that directory as the C: drive. Now the core will mount the root of the ZIP to improve compatibility with DOS games that need to be installed in a specific location on the hard drive. The old behavior will still be used if an old save file (named GAME.save.zip) exists. The new behavior uses a differently named save file (GAME.pure.zip).

Issue link for feedback: #87

Changes in 0.9.0:

• Add gamepad mapper (#57)
• Support loading dosbox conf files (#209)
• Support booter games from start menu (#102)
• Don't enter solo root directory when mounting ZIP files (#87)
• Don't stop batch execution when remapping drive letter (#199)
• Better path handling of disk image loading (#209)
• Apply fix for 'Bubble Bobble also featuring Rainbow Islands' keyboard mapping (#249)
• Update DOSBox SVN - Merge revisions 4472 ~ 4474