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DOSBox forks
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Introduction
DOSBox forks are sorted into four categories:
- Active - the project had commit activity in the past 12 months
- Dormant - the project had no commit activity for 1 to 2 years
- Dead - the project had no commit activity for over 2 years
- No status - no status assigned or status unclear
and two types:
- bold font - primarily functional enhancements
- regular font - primarily adaptations for a specific platform or application
Active
- DOSBox Staging (GitHub)
- DOSBox-X (GitHub)
- DOSBox Pure
- schellingb's RetroArch core
- js-dos
- WebAssembly and pure JS versions of DOSBox and DOSBox-X
- DOSVAXJ3 (Github
, Github SDL
) - Japanese systems, derivative of DOSVAX, most of the DOSVAX/J3 additions are also ported to DOSBox-X (list of differences).
- DOSee
- fork of Internet Archive The Emularity that uses EM-DOSBox JavaScript port of DOSBox. DOSee is considered feature complete. A fork is recommended for any new features.
- dosbox-core
- realnc's RetroArch core
- DOSBox Wii
- Nintendo Wii port
- DOSVAX (Github)
- Japanese AX emulation, authors recommend using DOSVAXJ3
- DOSBox
(SourceForge, Github mirrors here and here, 3rd party binary builds)
- MaddTheSane/Boxer
- frontend for macOS, uses DOSBox Staging as the backend
- DOSBOX-CRT-WIDESCREEN (Github)
- widescreen version of DOSBOX-CRT
- MartyShepard/DOSBox-Optionals
(discussions at Vogons, Raysworld)- DOSBox with special features and patches like ECE
- 2025-05-16 DOSBOX-CRT (Github)
- custom CRT shader
- 2025-04-19 DOSBox Staging Rendition (together with DosClient and RReady) - fork supporting Speedy3D and RRedline APIs (discussion)
- 2025-08-06 iDOS (App Store, GitHub)
- iOS port
- 2025-04-04 dosbox-patched - i30817 Personal Package Archive (PPA) of DOSBox + patches for MT-32, >2GB images (for Win95), Glide emulation, GL shaders, scripts 'dosboxmount' and 'copy-on-write-drive' that mount a writeable overlay for read-only directories and show a list of ready to play dosbox conf files from scanning that overlay filesystem for those files.
- 2025-07-18 DOSBox-X-App - a slightly customized version of DOSBox-X, combined with external programs and commands that make it easy to print and create PDFs from DOS applications.
- 2025-07-18 DOSBoxWP/vDosWP - DOSBox-X/vDos forks customized for use with WordPerfect
- 2025-05-01 vDos (changelog) - focuses exclusively on serious end-user programs, printing, clipboard text support, workflow of using DOSBox programs together with regular host apps; versions prior to 2015.11.01 available to download; base source code for newer versions available after making a small donation while some code becomes closed-source with nag screens in networked environments unless registered
- 2025-08-25 unnamed Dominus' snapshot (buildbot) - Dominus fixes broken official macOS builds (.dmg binary)
- 2025-01-09 Dosbian - DOSBox made into a Linux distro for Raspberry Pi (Uses DOSBox Staging as of version 2.5)
- 2025-08-22 DOSBox RTG - Amiga 68k port
- 2024-12-12 DOSBox - ChromeOS port
- 2025-05-19 DOSBox (discussion) - IRIX port of 0.61 by goon
- 2025-10-26 Magic Dosbox (Android Play Store Lite, Full) - GPL violator: modified GPL2 sources not public and does not respond to requests
Dormant
- 2024-06-13 EM-DOSBox hpvb
- fork of dreamlayers EM-DOSBox with elements from Staging
- 2024-07-02 Win31DOSBox - DOSBox-X fork customized for use with Windows 3.1x (author recommends using winevdm instead)
- 2024-10-12 jDosbox GitHub
- Rewrite in Java
Dead
- 2023 EM-DOSBox / DOSBox ported to Emscripten
- heavily used by Internet Archive, abandoned
- 2021 Rewarp (GitHub)
- fork of EM-DOSBox
- 2022 dosboxrm
- ReelMagic Fork of DOSBox (this feature is now supported by DOSBox Staging)
- 2020 GLDosbox
- early Staging fork, branch of DOSBox 0.74-3 with OpenGL shader support, MT-32 and removed legacy functionality
- 2023 bladeSk/DOSBox-pixel-perfect
- DOSBox mod with integer scaling, savestates and VSYNC, archived, author recommends using DOSBox-X
- 2019 duganchen/dosbox
- fork of DOSBox r4250 enhanced with FluidSynth and OpenGL3 shaders
- 2020 pierrelouys/dosbox_psp
- recovered source code of PSP DOSBox. PSP uses MIPS32 processor.
- 2021 retro100/dosbox-wii
- Maintenance fork, updated against SVN r-4301
- 2019 aqualung99/dosbox-0.74-ES
- port implementing OpenGL ES (!)
- 2022 DOSBox Daum (GitHub)
- very notable fork
- 2017 DOSBox SDL2
- SDL2 + some additional Android work
- 2019 waltervn/dosbox
-
opl3fpgasupport; relevant repos: opl3_fpga-apps, opl3_fpga
- 2021 DOSBOX+IDA
"idados debugger plugin"
- 2015 gururise/dosbox
- source dump of DosBox Turbo
- 2019 DebugDOSBox
- build that replaces the debugger UI using the ImGui framework and gl3w.
- 2020 DOSBox - AmigaOS 4.0 port
- 2021 DOSBox/2 - OS/2 port, author contributed similar changes to DOSBox-X as well
- 2019 dbDOSv™ - versions 1-7 were based on DOSBox, then switched to vDosPlus (source); no source code, no releases since 2019
- 2019 DOSBox-X Emscripten
- 2014 jDosbox - code ported to Java
- 2016 JsDOSBox - code ported to JavaScript
- 2016 Boxer - for Mac OS X
- 2018 Megabuild 6b - MB6 rebased to newer SVN r4112
- 2010 UBER BUILD - gulikoza's build updated to SVN r3623 and other small fixes
- 2010 Zirias - Debian Linux APT packaged version of DOSBox with Glide
- 2020 Naclbox (patch series) - Google Chrome Native Client
- 2011 gulikoza's build - source of Voodoo patch
- 2004 DOSXBox - XBox port
- 2013 DOSBox - Dingoo A320 port
- 2018 Symbian DOSBox - Symbian port
- 2008 DosBox for the GP2X (wiki link) - GP2X port
- 2009 DosBox for GP2x Wiz - GP2X Wiz port
- 2012 Dosbox for GP2x Caanoo - GP2x Caanoo port
- 2018 vDosPlus - maintainer shifted development to DOSBox-X and DOSBox Staging
- 2020 DOSBox SVN-lfn (archive link, SourceForge) - maintainer merged code and shifted development to DOSBox-X and DOSBox Staging
- 2023 DOSBox ECE (archive link, archive link DE) - patch series
- 2012 AnDOSBox (Play Store archive link) - Android port - ver. 0.74, v1.2.8, 2012-10-18
- 2017 9xbox (archive link) (discussion) - the idea was to create a version of Dosbox which easily handles installing windows 3.11, 95, 98 and possibly ME
- 2010 MegaBuild (archive link) - many features, source code preserved on branch
vogons/hal9k-megabuild6-r3661 - 2021 DosBox Turbo (archive link, Play Store archive link) - Android port - source not public, project does not mention it at all
- 2016 aDOSBox (Play Store archive link) - Android port
- 2015 DOSBOXDC (archive link) - Sega Dreamcast port
- 2011 PSP DOSBox (archive link) - Sony PlayStation Portable port
- 2012 DOSBox PPC (archive link) - PocketPC - Windows Mobile 2003 port
- 2008 DosBox-Addons Moe (archive link) - patches + Linux build; author managed to upstream some changes
- 2011 DosBox 0.61 w/MT-32 Combined Source (archive link) - build supporting MT-32 emulation; probably a precursor to Munt (?)
- 2011 DOSBox on IRIX (archive link) - the only known use of MIPS backend?
- 2014 DOSBox with TCP/IP Networking (archive link) - old Mac OS X build + HAL's NE2K patch
- 2021 Ldosbox for Android (archive link) - Android Port - it was updated in 2020, but the author said he probably won't work it further.
- 2014 DOSBox 0.70 optimized for PXA270(iwmmxt) (archive link)
- 2012 rhoenie/Marcus Herbert (archive link) - Mac OS X G3, G4, G5, x86, NE2k
- 2020 DOSBox Staging - Pyra Port (dead link)
No status
See also
Equivalent list(s) of old DOSBox wiki List of SVN Builds and Unofficial ports, Vogons discussion about forks.
General
How-to's
- Adding utilities
- Applications
- Config file examples
- Dual-mouse gaming
- Getting started
- Instant launch
- Joysticks and Gamepads
- Keymapper
- Multiplayer & serial ports
- Windows
Lists
- AUTOTYPE candidates
- CDDA / GUS / MIDI games
- DOS/32A compatibility
- Dual OPL2 and OPL3 games
- Games with enhanced Tandy & PCjr graphics and sound
- Shaders
- Special keys
Audio
- Audio mixer signal flow diagram
- Audio configuration recommendations
- GUS enhancements
- MIDI
- Sound cards
- True 16-bit audio games
Video
Issues
Dev
- How to contribute
- Release process
- Audio tests
- CPU tests
- DOS tests
- Input tests
- Performance tests
- Video tests — Video modes
- Video tests — CRT shaders
- Video tests — Presentation
- Learning DOS programming
- Intel compiler tips