Best DOSBox Optionals Alternatives in 2026
Taken from MS-DOS Emulators, where DOSBox Optionals is listed too, in the same order.
- 1 8.1 Club score
DOSBox
DOSBox is a free, open-source DOS emulator for running older programs and games that may not work on newer computers.
- Free plan
- Open source
- Windows · macOS · Linux · Self-hosted
- 2
8.0 Club scoreDosKit
DosKit is a cross-platform foundation for running DOS applications through js-dos WebAssembly technology.
- Free plan
- Windows · macOS · Linux · Web
- 3 7.9 Club score
DOSBox Pure
DOSBox Pure is a DOS game emulator fork that aims to make running DOS software simple.
- Free plan
- Open source
- Windows · macOS · Linux · Self-hosted
- 4 7.8 Club score
DOS Browser
DOS Browser is a Chrome-based app for running MS-DOS games from the DOS.Zone website.
- Free plan
- Windows · macOS · Linux · Web
- 5 7.6 Club score
DOS Wasm X
DOS Wasm X is a browser-based DOS emulator built with WebAssembly and the DOSBox-X codebase.
- Free plan
- Web · Self-hosted
- 6 7.6 Club score
Magic DosBox
Magic DosBox emulates MS-DOS on Android phones and tablets so users can play their own classic DOS games; games are not included.
- Free plan
- Android
- 7 7.5 Club score
js-dos
js-dos provides a JavaScript API and player for running DOS and Windows 9x programs in a browser or Node.
- Free plan
- Linux · Web · API · Self-hosted
- 8 7.5 Club score
Shed
Shed, also called Muxshed, is a self-hosted live production studio for mixing and distributing video.
- Free plan
- Linux · Web · API · Self-hosted
- 9
7.4 Club scoreDOSBox-X
DOSBox-X is a free, open-source emulator for DOS applications and games on Linux, macOS and Windows.
- Free plan
- Windows · macOS · Linux
- 10 7.3 Club score
dosbox-automation
dosbox-automation is a DOSBox Staging fork for automating the launch, control, and inspection of DOS applications and games.
- Free plan
- Windows · Linux · API
- 11 7.3 Club score
DOSBox Staging
DOSBox Staging is a free emulator for running MS-DOS and Windows 3.1 software on modern Windows, macOS, and Linux computers.
- Free plan
- Windows · macOS · Linux · API
- 12 7.3 Club score
MS-DOS Player
MS-DOS Player is a free command-line emulator for running 16-bit DOS-compatible commands in a Win32-x64 environment.
- Free plan
- Windows
- 13 7.3 Club score
Retro-DOS
Retro-DOS is a free, source-available DOS games launcher and emulator for handhelds, built on DOSBox-X with an SDL3 and Dear ImGui frontend.
- Free plan
- Windows · Linux · iPhone and iPad · Android
- 14 7.2 Club score
DOSVisor
DOSVisor is a Windows project that runs some DOS programs in a virtualized 16-bit real-mode environment through the Windows Hypervisor Platform API.
- Free plan
- Windows
- 15 7.2 Club score
UniPCemu
UniPCemu is a free, cycle-accurate x86 emulator for classic PC games, with Windows and Android listed as platforms.
- Free plan
- Windows · Android
- 16 7.2 Club score
riapyx
riapyx is a free, MIT-licensed early PC emulator written in Rust, targeting Windows 3.0 in real mode on an emulated Intel 8086.
- Free plan
- Windows · macOS · Linux
- 17 7.2 Club score
DOSVAXJ3
DOSVAXJ3 is a free emulator for AX, J-3100 and DOS/V systems, based on DOSBox.
- Free plan
- Windows · macOS · Linux
- 18 7.1 Club score
- 19 7.1 Club score
EM-DOSBox
EM-DOSBox is a DOSBox version compiled with Emscripten to run DOS games and other DOS programs in web browsers.
- Free plan
- Web
- 20 7.0 Club score
DOS-Emulator
DOS-Emulator is an IBM PC emulator that runs DOS, written in Rust.
- Free plan
- macOS · Linux