dosbox-x
Complete, accurate DOS emulator forked from DOSBox
DOSBox-X is a fork of DOSBox. The main focus of DOSBox is just on running DOS games, whereas DOSBox-X goes further than this: while it "retains compatibility with the wide base of DOS games and DOS gaming DOSBox was designed for", it is built to also run DOS applications, Windows 3.x, Windows 9x series, and software written for those versions of Windows. In particular, Windows 98 runs with superb stability on DOSBox-X, which DOSBox cannot achieve yet. DOSBox-X also ships more user-friendly features than DOSBox, including a drop-down menu system for easier alteration to emulation parameters and access to the emulator's functions, a graphical configuration tool for modifying the configuration file, saving and loading the emulator's state, creation of new disk image files, support for directly mounting hard disk images with partitions formatted with the FAT32 file system, and many more.
homepage ↗ github: joncampbell123/dosbox-x
Available in
| Overlay | Newest | Ebuilds | Last activity | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| tatsh-overlay GitHub ↗ | 2026.3.29 | 1 | 16 h | details › |
| guru gitweb ↗ | 2026.07.02 | 3 | 2 d | details › |
| zerodaysfordays sourcehut ↗ | 9999 | 1 | 6 mo | details › |
Versions & arches
| Version | Overlay | amd64 | x86 | ppc64 | arm | Committed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9999 LIVE | guru | follows upstream — no keywords | — | view · download · history ↗ | |||
| 9999 LIVE ≈ | zerodaysfordays | follows upstream — no keywords | 21 mo | view · download | |||
| 2026.3.29 ≈ | tatsh-overlay | amd64 testing | x86 testing | ppc64 testing | arm untested | 3 mo | view · download · history ↗ |
| 2026.07.02 | guru | amd64 testing | x86 untested | ppc64 untested | arm untested | — | view · download · history ↗ |
| 2026.06.02 | guru | amd64 testing | x86 untested | ppc64 untested | arm untested | — | view · download · history ↗ |
Use flags of 2026.3.29
- X Enable X11 integration for better fullscreening functionality
- debug Enable the internal debugger of this program
- dynrec
- ffmpeg Enable MPEG.TS + H.264 video capture format support via media-video/ffmpeg
- +fluidsynth Enable FluidSynth to be used as the MIDI synthesizer
- +freetype
- +fpu
- hardened Activate default security enhancements for toolchain (gcc, glibc, binutils)
- midi
- mt-32
- opengl Enable OpenGL as a video system to use for output
- printer
- +screenshots
- slirp Enable the SLIRP back-end for network adapter emulation
- unaligned
- +xbrz