Great news galore!
First and foremost, the news the surprised the heck out of me: Da Fast Lane is back! The return of the sceners haven and abandonware news one always wanted.
I really thought it was a goner, permanently.
Then another one of the best news in the abandonware scene in several weeks: as announced earlier, a new version of DOSBox is now available (v0.70)! Get it now while it's still hot.
HAPPYNESS! This surely is great news. After being down for nearly 4 (or was it 5?) months, the love-spreading Da Fast Lane is finally back where it should be. Of all of the abandonware community places on the web, DFL is one of the few I can call home.
I think I can say that I speak of almost the whole of the community when I say that this and DosBox 0.70 is so far the best news in the scene in 2007.
From all of us, to you Da Fast Lane, here you go:
I'm sorry, but I can't stop...
As posted on Abandoneer, I got great news for the community. The DOSBox crew is planning on releasing long-awaited version 0.66 of their popular MS-DOS emulator by the end of this week!
I had the opportunity of playtesting one of the release candidates and, being a config rat as I am, the first and most important changes I've noticed is that it now supposedly detects and dynamically applies the best possible cycles and core definitions on the fly. Manual settings are still available, so it's...