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Marco Buzzanca edited this page May 9, 2026 · 5 revisions

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) Commit Activity
  • DOSBox-X (GitHub) Commit Activity
  • DOSBox Pure Commit Activity - schellingb's RetroArch core
  • js-dos Commit Activity - WebAssembly and pure JS versions of DOSBox and DOSBox-X
  • DOSVAXJ3 (Github Commit Activity, Github SDL Commit Activity) - Japanese systems, derivative of DOSVAX, most of the DOSVAX/J3 additions are also ported to DOSBox-X (list of differences).
  • DOSee Commit Activity - 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 Commit Activity - realnc's RetroArch core
  • DOSBox Wii Commit Activity - Nintendo Wii port
  • DOSVAX (Github) Commit Activity - Japanese AX emulation, authors recommend using DOSVAXJ3
  • DOSBox (SourceForge) Commit Activity - Github mirrors here and here, 3rd party binary builds
  • MaddTheSane/Boxer Commit Activity - frontend for macOS, uses DOSBox Staging as the backend
  • DOSBOX-CRT-WIDESCREEN (Github) Commit Activity - widescreen version of DOSBOX-CRT
  • MartyShepard/DOSBox-Optionals Commit Activity (discussions at Vogons, Raysworld)- DOSBox with special features and patches like ECE
  • 2025-05-16 DOSBOX-CRT (Github) Commit Activity - 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) Commit Activity - 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

Dead

No status

See also

Equivalent list(s) of old DOSBox wiki List of SVN Builds and Unofficial ports, Vogons discussion about forks.

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