Drop a game onto a wooden shelf and it just plays — the right CPU speed, the right sound card, the right program to launch, all figured out for you. No .conf, no cycles tuning, no setup.
Free & open source · Windows 10/11 · powered by the DOSBox Pure core
Every game becomes a box on the shelf — box art lands automatically, and a click plays it.
Some of the best DOS soundtracks were written for the Roland MT-32. Drop in your MT-32 (or CM-32L) ROMs and those games play with real MT-32 music — complete with the module's iconic dot-matrix LCD scrolling its messages on screen as you play. Sound Blaster, AdLib, and General MIDI are all covered too.
Your collection as box art on a wooden shelf — face-out covers, hover-to-lift, search and sort. Drop a folder, a .zip, or a CD image anywhere on the window to import it. Each game becomes a self-contained gamebox folder you can back up or move; the library is just a rebuildable index over them.
A curated catalog applies known-good settings on import — CPU cycles, sound card, memory, the right program to launch. Wrong values aren't crashes, they're a subtly broken game; EmuDOS gets them right so you don't have to. Every setting is overridable per game, and your edits survive catalog updates.
Covers download automatically from ScreenScraper with a SteamGridDB fallback. Choose flat 2D or angled 3D boxes per game or library-wide — or drop in your own.
Multi-disc games, in-game disc swapping, and even installing and booting a full Windows 9x for the games that need it.
So many DOS games gated play behind a manual or code-wheel lookup. EmuDOS treats manuals as a real feature — download a game's manual and read it in a built-in viewer that reopens on your last page.
Save and restore at any moment, on top of whatever in-game saving a title already has.
Picks the right executable to run automatically — no digging through a folder for the one that starts the game.
Capture a frame or record gameplay clips; files land in the game's own folder alongside its saves.
Clean mouse capture and release for the point-and-click adventures and strategy games that need a real pointer.
Sign in with GitHub and EmuDOS backs up your battery saves, library database, and game notes to a private repository it creates for you automatically. Set up a new PC, sign in, and your collection and progress are right where you left them — in a repo only you can see.
Grab the latest release from GitHub and run EmuDOS.exe — it's self-contained, no install.
On first launch, Preferences → Downloads fetches the DOSBox Pure core for you.
Drag a game folder, .zip, or disc image onto the window. It appears on the shelf with art.
Click a box. The right speed and sound are already set — right-click any box for options.
EmuDOS is young software, built and tested by a small group. It plays a lot of games well today, but expect rough edges as it grows. Bug reports and ideas are welcome on GitHub. EmuDOS downloads the DOSBox Pure core at runtime and never distributes copyrighted game files, BIOS, or MT-32 ROMs — you supply your own.