This is a preview of what will come next on box64 v0.4.6. Because developpement cycle of box64 is quite long, we thought we could preview some of the new or improve feature that come in the version before the release. So here it is: Preview of the Improved Handling of non-4K pagesize. What is non-4K…
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New Box64 v0.4.4 release
Box64 is now at version v0.4.4! There are some some nice Quality of Lfe improvements in this release, more optimisations, and more emulation accuracy to help with protected games. Let’s dig in! Quality of Life A new tool is now part of the box64: box64-configurator. This application, coded in python, will allow simple modification of…
The next release of Box64 is finally out. Many fixes, a new Dynarec backend and Vulkan overlay support… Let’s dig in. Many fixes and improvements to Dynarec A lot of work has been done to fix issues. It can be in the dynarec where many opcodes got their behavior fixed, or many speed regressions introduced…
Happy new year, and happy new release of Box64! The new version brings a ton of new enhancements and fixes to all 3 supported platforms, with Steam running not only on Arm64, but also on RiSC-V and on Loongarch! And this is the Linux version of Steam, not the Windows one (but the Windows one…
And a new release of Box64 is tagged. v0.3.8 has a new DynaCache feature and a ton of fixes and improvements to dynarec & wrappers. Lets dig in. Fixes everywhere There are numerous fixes everywhere in this release. Dynarec opcodes, wrappers, memory tracking and management. All those fixes, along with more wrapped function have improved…
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New Box64 v0.3.6 released
A new release for Box64 has been tagged! for this release: more bugfixes, some speedup, and a new sub-project: WowBox64. Bugfixes For bugfixes, there has been numerous fixes to the Dynarec, for all 3 supported backends. And some special care has been ported on the x87 side of things (well, not for LoongArch has the…
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New Box64 v0.3.4 released
A new released of Box64 appeared. While previous version introduced lots of new features, this version is more of a stabilisation released. For example, last version introduced Native Flags, this version fixed many bugs introduced with it. So more things are now running. Same for Box32. Many fixes have been done and box32 is running…
A new version of both box64 and box86 has been released! While the changelog for box86 doesn’t contain much, there are a lot of new improvements, features and fixes for box64. With some speed increase, improved compatibility and a new subproject, box32, there is a lot. But let’s dive into more details on the performances…
A new version of box64 just released. Note that box86 has not evolved enough and did not get a new release. Next time maybe? So what’s new on Box64? Well, AVX! But not only that, also AVX2, and BMI1, BMI2, ADX, FMA, F16C and RDRAND cpu extensions. While the later one are less well known,…
Finaly a new release of box64 and box86! And while box86 simply got some improvments backported from box64, box64 got a lot of new things. Starting with a new Dynarec target: Loongarch! Both 3A5000 and 3A6000 architecture are supported. This platform use a non x86 4K Pagesize, meaning that some software, like Wine, will not…