The first public release of DOSBox Pure Unleashed, a new version of the DOS emulator by Psyraven, was made available on Saturday evening. This is a fork of DOSBox Pure by the same coder, which runs as a RetroArch core. As well as being a standalone app for Windows, Mac, and Linux computers, the new DOSBox Pure Unleashed comes with its own convenient UI, and the developer calls out some interesting enhancements, like experimental support for Windows 9X.
Mmmm… I don’t mind the Retroarch version and use it on occasion, but this is great news. The 9x experimental support and the running from zip are great news and I’m curious if it’ll make it easier to use the eXoDOS packages more easily.
I’m also wondering if this will impact the planned RetroAchevements’ MSDOS release, since I think they were using Pure for that. I can’t imagine it being an easy feat as it is, but if there’s active work on this I imagine it might push that along a bit. I really am craving a couple of DOS and 9x titles, and good achievement sets really help me get the most out of a game.