Jul 4, 2020 · DOSBox-X main developer here: Development is also intended to aid retro DOS development by attempting to emulate the hardware as accurately as possible (to reduce surprises), and all the configuration options are there so you can test your code by changing various things about the DOS and BIOS emulation to see how well it handles the absence or presence of a feature, bug, extension, etc.

Sep 4, 2021 · DosBox-X is by far my favourite fork of DosBox. The original lacks a lot of stuff and is very rarely updated. Many other forks are abandoned. I consider the worthwhile current ones: DosBox-X, DosBox Staging and DosBox-ECE. Those are in order of most to least new features as I rank them, so depending on what you want should be the one you pick.

Nov 25, 2020 · For save states, DOSBox-X supports both save slots (up to 100) and save files. This feature is apparently unique to DOSBox-X at this time, and it has been greatly improved in DOSBox-X and should work fine in most cases. For 3dfx, DOSBox-X supports both internal Voodoo emulation and Glide wrapper. Of course there is more beside gaming.

Jun 2, 2021 · DOSBox-X is very feature-rich, and just to name a few of its unique features: support for GUI menu bar & configuration tool (optional), save and load state (up to 100 save slots and also save files), better compatibility with DOS applications and Win3.x/9x, many more DOS commands, Pentium MMX & Pro, printing (virtual or real printer), IDE ...

Apr 7, 2025 · Originally based on DOSBox, DOSBox-X does not only support DOS games, but it supports much more, covering virtually everything in the DOS scene including DOS games, DOS applications, DOS commands, Windows 3.x, Windows 9x, etc. DOSBox-X Version 0.83.8 changelog: 1. Notable New Features...

Apr 7, 2025 · The latest version of DOSBox-X (0.83.21) has been released! Unlike original DOSBox which is focused for DOS games, DOSBox-X officially intends to cover different types of DOS software, as well as implementing accurate emulation of hardware behavior also to help with new DOS developments. So...

Jul 21, 2022 · Yeah DOSBOX-X is pretty cool. I notice it doesn't always play super well with some games though. Commander Keen for instance does that jerky motion thing in DOSBOX-X but is fine in OG DOSBOX.

Jan 2, 2022 · DOSBox-X is very feature-rich, and you can find examples of its unique features in the DOSBox‐X’s Feature Highlights page. This new version (0.83.21) also has many improvements and fixes compared with the previous version, such as support for viewing Unicode (UTF-8 or UTF-16) documents in the shell, support for ENET reliable UDP for modem ...

May 10, 2020 · Subjectively, I honestly didn't notice any differences between DOSBox 0.74-3, DOSBox Staging 0.75.0, and DOSBox-X 0.83.1 in the titles tested. Doom, Quake, Commander Keen, Duke Nukem 1/2, Warcraft, Ultima VI, and a few others all worked beautifully across the 3 machines. With that out of the way, I dug a bit more into the objective side of things.

Jun 18, 2022 · If it is a case of (for example) wanting "lesser" sound such as Soundblaster or AdLib instead of Gravis or General Midi, and the game doesn't have a setup or commandline to set that, you'll probably have to use a specific config file for just that game or use DosBox-X's built-in commands to change your soundcard right before the game runs.