diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index cac222719..30f90e0e6 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -5,14 +5,14 @@ Before contributing to DOSBox-X, please check the [issue tracker](https://github ## Scope of contributions that are welcome - The normal operation of DOS games and applications within DOSBox-X -- DOS, Windows 3.x and Windows 9x/ME guest system support +- DOS, Windows 1.0/2.x/3.x and Windows 9x/ME guest system support - Architectural symmetry with a real DOS environment (particularly MS-DOS or PC DOS) - Improving a platform-specific build of DOSBox-X or getting it on par with other platforms supported - Non-implemented (or incorrectly) system calls - Missing or incorrect hardware emulation, e.g. video, sound, input - Bug fixes and/or improvements that allows for example demoscene productions to run in DOSBox-X -You do not necessarily need to be versed in coding, in this case you will certainly spend most of your time in the [issue tracker](https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x/issues); either submitting bugs or asking for new features. You can also help improve DOSBox-X's documentation or translate its language file to another language. +You do not necessarily need to be versed in coding, in this case you will certainly spend most of your time in the [issue tracker](https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x/issues); either submitting bugs or asking for new features, or helping other DOSBox-X users by suggesting solutions to their problems. You can also help improve DOSBox-X's documentation, or translate its language file to another language. ## Code @@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ Recommendations about coding: Obviously when you'll dig in, you will quickly spot that there are many places where these rules are simply not followed ! Over the years, hundreds of people have worked on DOSBox (which DOSBox-X is a fork of), while that helped to raise this project to where it is today, it certainly didn't in terms of clean code. But keep the faith, a huge code cleanup endeavor has started with the goal to raise the metrics of DOSBox-X guts, hopefully ASAP. +For details of the source code, please take a look at the [DOSBox-X source code description](README.source-code-description) page. Information about the debugger is also available in the [DOSBox-X Debugger](README.debugger) page. + + ## Code of Conduct Please read the [Code of Conduct](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md) page.