News and Status

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V5 - upcoming release - ETA = Fall 2020.

• Download on Demand - If you don't want to download the entire collection, you can download just the front end data. The first time you run a game it will see you don't have it on the disk, report it's size on the server, and ask if you would like to download it. it then fires off wget and grabs the file for you before then running the installer.
• IPX \ Serial Networking - Easy host and join multiplayer games. Scripts auto start\open your virtual ports and describe exactly what steps each game requires to lay in multiplayer. Play over 300 games with your friends!
• Filter by Installed Games - A custom plugin that dynamically updates a playlist in LaunchBox each time a game gets installed or uninstalled
• Massive Manual Upgrades - @Timber & @bigjim have found hundreds of missing manuals, upgraded the quality of hundreds more, and found countless missing extra files.
• Gold Box Companion Support - D&D Goldbox games can now be launched with the GB Companion app, which features automapping and other great tools.
• New Folder Structure - All project files now reside under an "eXo" folder, with individual folders for each project under that. This will allow Win3eXo, and other future projects, to easy plug in with eXoDOS.
• Modified Launch & Install Files - Files are no longer individually coded to launch a specific game. They now figure out what game will be launched to seeing what folder they were run from. While this doesn't directly affect users much, it makes maintaining the collection much easier.
• Bug Squash-a-rama! - A new GitHub now tracks all bugs, which has increased productivity on that front.
• Alternate Names - Games now have regional names added to their LaunchBox entry. This allows you to search whatever name you are familiar with, and still find it listed in the database. eg: Searching Broken Sword will now bring up Circle of Blood.

Games added to V5 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UkuqQpMgqygphlrBPhe7H4ecfGA8oQyBQS3ca12UuKo/edit?usp=sharing

V4 - current release

Version 4 adds:

• Sound Project: Added support for 797 MT32 games, 501 Gen. Midi/Sound Canvas games.
• Nuked OPL3: Added support for 22 OPL3 games to use the Nuked OPL emulator
• Gravis Ultrasound: Enabled in 249 games
• CMS, GameBlaster, Covox, Sound Source, and Innovation sound options added to a handful of games each (those that support them).
• Enhanced Tandy Sound: 80 games with enabled Tandy 3 Voice sound.
• All games from 1988-1992 checked for optimal quality sound. Dozens of games previously set to PC Speaker have been upgraded to adlib \ sound blaster.
• CD \ Rip Replacement: All games marked as CD at moby games checked against eXoDOS. Rips were removed in lieu of clean CD images.
• Composite Video: PC Jr and CGA games upgraded to DosBOX ECE in order to take advantage of its advanced composite modes.
• CD Audio check: All games with known CD-Audio were checked to ensure they were working properly.
• RPG Save Game Transfer Support: All known games that support the importing of save games from previous games have had scripts added to them to allow you to move all supported save games around to games which support them.
• ScummVM Updated: All DOS games ScummVM currently supports have had ScummVM launch options added. Full screen launch options have been added to all ScummVM games as well.
• 3DFX Update: All 3DFX games were checked and upgraded to DosBOX ECE, along with replaced glide drivers. This removes prior issues that forced full screen, caused flickering, and other issues with frame rates.
• Pixel Perfect patch support: An alternate launch file for each game now exists in the extras folder (or the context menu in LaunchBox). This will launch the game with ECE and enable pixel perfect output.
• Missing Manuals project: Multiple users have trolled the computer museum, archive.org, old-games.ru, and other sites to find as many of the missing manuals and extras as possible.
• Linux Support project: v4 is Linux compatible
• Major bug squashing initiative: Unfortunately we don’t have an exact count of how many bugs have been squashed, but it has been thousands.
• Addition of the VG Maps library to each game that had an entry there.
• Patches and enhancement options for dozens of games such as Elder Scrolls, Ultima, and the like have been added.
• Third party utilities such as the Dos Game Launcher have been built and included as well.