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Bochs, a highly portable open source IA-32 (x86) PC emulator, has been updated to release 2.2.6. Changes in this release include:

• several APIC and I/O APIC fixes make SMP Bochs booting Windows NT4.0 in SMP configuration (Volker, Stanislav)
• critical APIC timer bug fixed (Volker Ruppert)
• several fixes in the hard drive, keyboard, timer, usb and vga code (Volker)
• fixes in Bochs debugger (Stanislav Shwartsman)
• obsolete SMP BIOS images removed (MP tables created dynamicaly)
• new userbutton shortcut “bksl” (backslash)
• enabled #PCE bit in CR4 register, previosly setting of this bit generated #GP(0) fault (Stanislav Shwartsman)
• enabled LAHF/SAHF instructions in x86-64 mode (Stanislav Shwartsman)
• determine number of processors in SMP configuration through .bochsrc file
• new .bochsrc option to choose number of processors to emulate
• new configure option –enable-smp to configure Bochs for SMP support, the old –enable-processors=N option is deprecated
• fixed bug in PMULUDQ SSE2 instruction (Kevin Lawton)
• enable VME (virtual 8086 mode extensions) by default if cpu-level >= 5
• enable Bochs disassembler by default for all configurations (Stanislav)
• win32 installer script improvements (Volker)
• ips parameter moved to new cpu option
• show IPS value in status bar if BX_SHOW_IPS is enabled (Volker, Stanislav)
• updated Bochs instrumentation examples (Stanislav Shwartsman)
• user and development documentation improved

Download: [ Bochs 2.2.6 ]

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