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Preview of next Box64: Improved non-4k pagesize handling

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…

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Box64 Gaming General

New Box64 v0.4.2 released

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…

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Box64 Gaming

New Box64 v0.4.0 released

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…

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Box64 Gaming General

New Box64 v0.3.8 released

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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Box64

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…

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New version of box64 v0.3.2 and box86 v0.3.8

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…

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Benchmark Box64 Dev

Optimizing the RISC-V Backend

Utilizing RVV and More!

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Box64 Dev Gaming

Box64 and RISC-V in 2024

What It Takes to Run The Witcher 3 on RiSC-V

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Box64 Dev

Revisiting the dynarec

Since the last post about it, the dynarec (dynamic recompiler, a Just-In-Time recompilation of x86 code) changed a lot. It still works in four major steps, but now there are a lot more intermediary steps. So let’s see how it works now! Note: this article will focus on the ARM version of the dynarec on…