{"id":49141,"date":"2020-12-21T18:34:14","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T18:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/?p=49141"},"modified":"2021-08-17T02:04:11","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T02:04:11","slug":"dosbox-pure-out-now-for-public-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/index.php\/dosbox-pure-out-now-for-public-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"DOSBox Pure &#8211; Out now for public testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Article Written by Psyraven &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rHkIz4-SewI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Hi all,<\/p>\n<p>After 6 months of quite intense development, DOSBox Pure has been released for public testing. DOSBox Pure is a new fork built for RetroArch\/Libretro, aiming for simplicity and ease of use.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The main features of this fork are:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As easy as a console game emulator by loading DOS games from ZIP files and saving into separate save files<\/li>\n<li>Support for save states and even rewinding<\/li>\n<li>Automatic game detection with custom gamepad to keyboard mapping for many DOS games<\/li>\n<li>Mouse, keyboard and joystick emulation for gamepads and an on-screen keyboard<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other features are support for cheats, built-in MIDI software synthesizer (needs a SF2 soundfont file), disc swapping menu and a start menu that lists EXE files controllable by gamepad.<\/p>\n<p>This initial release is feature complete as of now for what I wanted to accomplish, yet it is clearly marked as intended for public testing. So try to be constructive and as technical as possible if something doesn&#8217;t work as expected, I&#8217;ll be thankful.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to get this out before the holidays and to personally end 2020 with something cool. I hope you like it \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Code and download: <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/schellingb\/dosbox-pure\">https:\/\/github.com\/schellingb\/dosbox-pure<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article Written by Psyraven &#8211; Hi all, After 6 months of quite intense development, DOSBox Pure has been released for public testing. DOSBox Pure is a new fork built for RetroArch\/Libretro, aiming for simplicity and ease of use. The main features of this fork are: As easy as a console game emulator by loading DOS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[293,314,2,5],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49142,"href":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49141\/revisions\/49142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}