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DOSBox-X fork of the DOSBox project

16 mentions on Hacker News by 16 people: 4 stories, 12 comments · first 2020-01-14 · latest 2026-10-08

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  1. …DosBox) runs natively and works great for everything I've thrown at it like old Apogee games, etc. https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x
    comment by vunderba · 2026-06-01 · in Windows GOG DOS Games on M-Series Macs
  2. …the three most popular one would be DOSBox-X, DOSBox Pure, and DOSBox Staging https://dosbox-x.com/ https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x https://schelling.itch.io/dosbox-pure https://github.com/schellingb/dosbox-pure-unleashed/…
    comment by haunter · 2026-06-01 · in Windows GOG DOS Games on M-Series Macs
  3. …has DOS as one of its supported host platforms (using HX-DOS that a sibling comment mentioned): https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x#dosbox-x-supporte...
    comment by 1313ed01 · 2026-04-26 · in SDL Now Supports DOS
  4. If you want to install NT 4.0 on DosBox-X I found this guide helpful: https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x/discussions/4907#...
    comment by keepamovin · 2025-06-08 · in Installing Microsoft Windows 98 in DOSBox-X
  5. …at least has is disabled by default, but it can be enabled when building from ports (make config). https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x/blob/master/READM...
    comment by 2mlWQbCK · 2025-02-20 · in Spice86 – A PC emulator for real mode reverse engineering
  6. …probably have it (DOSBox-X definitely does): - https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=3944 - https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x/wiki/DOSBox%E2%80...
    comment by rzzzt · 2025-02-20 · in Spice86 – A PC emulator for real mode reverse engineering
  7. DOSBox-X links to a 2019 emscripten WASM port: https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x em-dosbox: https://github.com/dreamlayers/em-dosbox Does dosbox[-X] [in WASM] support SBEMU? There's a note about fpu=false and 80 bit precision in…
    comment by westurner · 2023-10-24 · in SBEMU – Run your retro games with on board audio via Sound Blaster emulation
  8. …Also, I guess it runs on Arm processors these days (since it's an emulator, and not a hypervisor): https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x Wine is generally more convenient if it works though.
    comment by hedora · 2023-09-19 · in Seeking help to preserve WWII database on Windows 98
  9. …cases, features of the platform which applications rarely use, etc. [0] https://dosbox-x.com/ https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x [1] https://dosbox-staging.github.io/ https://github.com/dosbox-staging/dosbox-staging
    comment by skissane · 2022-02-14 · in The Life of MS-DOS
  10. …Closest project I have seen is DOSBox-X which seems to already have an Emscripten port: https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x HL2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq5dJ0oc_6k UT2004: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VOAeOQcrdo
    comment by trizic · 2021-01-12 · in Huawei ExaGear: x86_64 apps on Arm 64-bit Linux systems
  11. …the environments to run Windows 3.x, 9x and ME and software written for those versions of Windows. https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x
    comment by kelchqvjpnfasjl · 2021-01-06 · in DOSBox-X: Free, cross-platform and complete DOS, Windows 3.x and 9x emulation
  12. …the behaviour of the DAC ports on actual hardware, also from an emulation perspective (DOSbox): https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x/issues/502
    comment by userbinator · 2020-04-08 · in Tale of two hypervisor bugs – Escaping from FreeBSD bhyve