DOSBox Staging 0.81.0 out now with new CRT shaders and lots of graphics improvements

DOSBox Staging is a modern continuation of DOSBox with advanced features and modern development practices, giving you the great compatibility of classic games with plenty of extras. A new release is available with DOSBox Staging 0.81.0 and it brings with it quite a number of changes to improve a whole lot of games.

The first major change is the removal of their original CRT shaders, with them being replaced by a much better set of 24 CRT shaders they say are "tweaked to perfection to emulate the glorious CRT monitors of the past, including authentic recreations of Hercules, CGA, monochrome CGA, composite CGA, EGA, and VGA monitors". They say you don't need to know much, and no configuration is required at all, as DOSBox Staging will automatically pick the best one based on the current DOS video mode and viewport resolution but you can turn them off if you wish.

Pictured - Gods — 320×200 VGA

Some of the other additions include:

• Accurate VGA emulation.
• 3dfx Voodoo 1 emulation.
• New integer scaling modes.
• Aspect ratio correct image captures.
• Supercharged image and video capturing.
• Aspect ratio and viewport enhancements.
• A fix for the “black vertical bars” video corruption issue.
• New deinterlacing shader for FMV games.
• + much more graphical improvements.

See more in their release notes for the full explanation of each change.