DOS-Emulator

6.8easy start · #13of 26
in MS-DOS Emulators

Free to practise onyes
Free trialno
Well documentedyes
Runs where you workno

Runs on Linux, Mac.

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DOS-Emulator is ranked #13 of 26 in MS-DOS emulators on The Geeks Club. It runs on Linux, macOS. There is a free plan.

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Free Free MIT-licensed software · README says many features are missing or implemented differently github.com · 8 Oct 2026

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Free plan: Yes
Supported host platforms: macOS, Ubuntu Linux
DOS target versions: dos-compatible
Source available: Yes

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The record

Purpose: DOS-Emulator is an IBM PC emulator running DOS, written in Rust.
Project goal: The author says it was made to play a favorite game and learn Rust and emulation principles.
Feature coverage: The project is inspired by DOSBox but is not a direct port, and many features are implemented differently or are absent.
Supported software: The README says only Game of ROBOT episodes 0, 1, 3 and 4 are known to be playable.
Build and download: Users can build from source with Cargo or download a prebuilt binary from the GitHub releases page.
Platform support: The README says macOS was tested as a host and Ubuntu builds, while Windows lacks the ANSI escape sequences needed by the CLI dependency.
Controls: The command line interface supports quitting, pausing into the debugger, and opening a keyboard mapping tool.
Debugger: The debugger can profile instructions, inspect data at selected registers, scroll the data overview, continue, step over, and single-step.
Audio and video: The architecture describes a GUI thread for video rendering and input, and an audio thread that synthesizes Sound Blaster and beeper signals.
Performance: The author reports 10 to 19 million instructions per second in release mode, up to 23 million with PGO, using about 45% of one host CPU core and 32 MiB of RAM in the described evaluation.
License: The repository is under the MIT License, which permits use, copying, modification, distribution, sublicensing and sale subject to its stated conditions.
Warranty: The MIT license provides the software “AS IS” without warranty, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and noninfringement.
Release: The releases page lists v0.1.0 as the latest release.
Maker: Cargo.toml names Alexander Meißner as the package author.
Price from: Free

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github.com/Lichtso/DOS-Emulator· checked 8 Oct 2026
github.com/Lichtso/DOS-Emulator/blob/master/LICENS· checked 8 Oct 2026
github.com/Lichtso/DOS-Emulator/releases· checked 8 Oct 2026
github.com/Lichtso/DOS-Emulator/blob/master/Cargo.· checked 8 Oct 2026