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@PluMGMK PluMGMK released this 12 Aug 18:24
· 112 commits to master since this release

This release includes improvements to VIDMODES.COM, namely:

  • It now queries your monitor as well as your graphics card, showing more info that may be used by VBESVGA.DRV during boot.
  • It can be used as a diagnostic tool, returning an errorlevel to indicate whether or not VBESVGA.DRV can be expected to boot with certain settings.
  • It now lists the total number of modes found.
  • It indicates which Git commit last touched the source it was built from.

VDDVBE.386 now also detects and deals with SeaBIOS properly, fixing a whole family of bugs that can affect windowed DOS boxes when running under QEMU (or otherwise using SeaBIOS):

  • Text getting printed on the main screen, outside the DOS window (happened in 40-column mode at least)
  • Corruption of the leftmost column of text when scrolling in a DOS window (e.g. output from dir)
  • Possibly some other issues I can't think of right now…

Unfortunately, the failure to boot with newer GeForces still stands, although I made an initial stab at it. Maybe it now works for more cards than it did before (but my GTX 1050 is not one of them!)

Lastly, I've been asked to include floppy images in the releases, so starting from this release I'll be doing just that!