The Best 12 MS-DOS Alternatives

  • FreeDOS icon

    FreeDOS

    FreeDOS is a complete, free, 100% MS-DOS compatible operating system. Works on old hardware, in DOS emulators, and in embedded systems.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

  • Boxer icon

    Boxer

    Boxer plays all the MS-DOS games of your misspent youth, right here on your Mac. There’s no clots of configuration and baffling DOS commands between you and your fun: just drag-drop your games onto Boxer, and you’ll be playing in minutes.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X

  • DOSEMU icon

    DOSEMU

    DOSEMU stands for DOS Emulation, and allows you to run DOS and many DOS programs, including many DPMI applications such as DOOM and Windows 3.1, under Linux.

    Free Open Source Linux

  • DOSBox SVN Daum icon

    DOSBox SVN Daum

    An enhanced SVN build of the DOS emulator which incorporates unofficial features and fixes that are not officially part of DOSBox.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • PC DOS icon

    PC DOS

    IBM PC DOS was an operating system for the IBM Personal Computer, manufactured and sold by IBM from the 1980s to the 2000s. Before version 6.1, PC DOS was an IBM-branded...

    Commercial Windows

  • 4DOS icon

    4DOS

    4DOS is a command line interpreter by JP Software, designed to replace the default command interpreter COMMAND.COM in DOS and Windows 95/98/Me. The 4DOS family of...

    Free Windows

  • jDosbox icon

    jDosbox

    This is an x86 emulator written in pure Java based on the Dosbox project. It currently supports running Dosbox's built in DOS and well as booting into Windows...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • JsDOSBox icon

    JsDOSBox

    [Development stage] JavaScript PC DOS Emulator

    Free Open Source Web

  • Magic Dosbox icon

    Magic Dosbox

    magic dosbox is a highly optimized android port of the powerful dosbox emulator.

    Freemium Android Android Tablet

  • rpix86 icon

    rpix86

    rpix86 is a PC emulator for the Raspberry Pi computer. Its purpose is to allow you to run old DOS games on your RPi. It is based on the DSx86 PC emulator for Nintendo DS...

    Free Linux Raspberry Pi