rob72/DOSBox-X

Project ID: 47033

Description

DOSBox-X is an open-source DOS emulator for running DOS games and applications. DOS-based Windows such as Windows 3.x and Windows 9x are officially supported. Compared to DOSBox, DOSBox-X is much more flexible and provides more features.

DOSBox-X emulates a PC necessary for running many DOS games and applications that simply cannot be run on modern PCs and operating systems, similar to DOSBox. However, while the main focus of DOSBox is for running DOS games, DOSBox-X goes much further than this. Started as a fork of the DOSBox project, it retains compatibility with the wide base of DOS games and DOS gaming DOSBox was designed for. But it is also a platform for running DOS applications, including emulating the environments to run Windows 3.x, 9x and ME and software written for those versions of Windows. By adding official support for Windows 95, 98, and ME emulation and acceleration, we hope that those old Windows games and applications could be enjoyed or used once more. Moreover, DOSBox-X adds support for emulating the NEC PC-98 such that you can also play PC-98 games with it.

DOSBox-X emulates a legacy IBM PC and DOS environment, and has many emulation options and features such as:

Emulate several PC variants: IBM PC, IBM PCjr, Tandy 1000, Amstrad and NEC PC-98
CPUs: 8086, 286, 386, 486, Pentium, Pentium MMX and Pentium Pro
Graphics chipsets: MDA, Hercules, CGA, EGA, MCGA, VGA and SVGA (S3 Trio64, ET3000, ET4000, Paradise)
Sound options: Sound Blaster series, Gravis Ultrasound, Disney Sound source and more audio options
MIDI: FluidSynth, Roland MT-32 and General MIDI options
Extended Serial, Parallel and Game port support
Printer support (real or virtual) and emulation options
3dfx Voodoo emulation with Glide wrapper support
Network emulation: IPX over UDP, and serial modem
Network adapter emulation: NE2000 (pcap or slirp backend)
Mounting a host directory as a harddisk, floppy or CD-ROM drive
Mounting harddisk images, floppy disk and CD-ROM images, including IDE emulation
ISO9660, FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32 filesystem support, including long filenames (LFN)
Support for running real DOS systems (MS-DOS, IBM PC DOS, FreeDOS)
Support for running Windows 1.0 to Windows 3.11, Windows 9x and Windows ME
GUI drop-down menu for easier usage
Built-in graphical configuration tool
Save and load state with support for save files and up to 100 save slots
More DOS commands, and ability to add your own programs to the virtual Z: drive
Support for clipboard copy & paste and scalable TrueType fonts (TTF)
Various output options, including output scaling (such as pixel-perfect scaling) and OpenGL shaders

Installation Instructions

For RHEL or RHEL derived distributions, first enable EPEL support.

sudo dnf copr enable rob72/DOSBox-X
sudo dnf install dosbox-x

Active Releases

The following unofficial repositories are provided as-is by owner of this project. Contact the owner directly for bugs or issues (IE: not bugzilla).

Release	Architectures	Repo Download
EPEL 8	aarch64 (157), x86_64 (625)	EPEL 8 (698 downloads)
EPEL 9	aarch64 (121), x86_64 (405)	EPEL 9 (438 downloads)
Fedora 38	aarch64 (101), x86_64 (1434)	Fedora 38 (0 downloads)
Fedora 39	aarch64 (113), x86_64 (1190)	Fedora 39 (515 downloads)
Fedora 40	aarch64 (52), x86_64 (1133)	Fedora 40 (468 downloads)
Fedora 41	aarch64 (12), x86_64 (82)	Fedora 41 (57 downloads)
Fedora rawhide	aarch64 (74), x86_64 (151)	Fedora rawhide (298 downloads)