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Install dosbox with Homebrew Cask
Emulator for x86 with DOS. Version 0.74-3,3 via Homebrew Cask; verified from local package data. Also installable with dnf: sudo dnf install dosbox-staging.
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Package summary
Emulator for x86 with DOS
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Project history and usage
DOSBox is an open-source x86 and DOS environment emulator primarily used to run DOS games on modern operating systems.
Project history
Dutch programmers Peter Veenstra and Sjoerd van der Berg created DOSBox around 2000 to restore DOS-game compatibility as Windows moved away from its DOS-based lineage. The first public version, DOSBox 0.1, was released on 31 January 2002.
DOSBox combines an x86 CPU emulator, a DOS-like environment, and emulation of period graphics, audio, input, and networking hardware. This avoids requiring users to install a separate copy of DOS.
Adoption history
DOSBox became the de facto way to run MS-DOS games on modern operating systems. Its portability brought DOS software to Windows, macOS, Linux, BSD, and less-common host platforms after native DOS compatibility had disappeared from mainstream systems.
Commercial storefronts and publishers adopted it as packaging infrastructure for rereleased DOS games: the original game files, a private DOSBox build, configuration, and a launcher can be shipped together as a self-contained modern application.
How it is used
Users mount a host directory or disk image as a DOS drive, change to that virtual drive, and start an executable. The configuration file controls emulated machine type, CPU speed, memory, graphics, sound, input, networking, drive mounts, and startup commands.
Why package nerds care
DOSBox is a canonical example of an emulator functioning as a compatibility runtime. Packagers can preserve an unchanged DOS executable while declaring its virtual drives, emulated hardware, CPU speed, sound devices, and startup commands in configuration.
Its long-lived stable series and open development also produced an extensive ecosystem of frontends, downstream builds, libretro cores, and specialized forks such as DOSBox Staging and DOSBox-X.
Timeline
- 2002-01-31: DOSBox 0.1 became the first public release.
- 2010-05-12: DOSBox 0.74 was released and became the long-lived stable baseline.
- 2019-06-26: DOSBox 0.74-3 delivered security and rendering fixes.
Related projects
- DOSBox Staging
- DOSBox-X
- DOSBox Pure
- ScummVM
- FreeDOS
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security posture
No protected-tool coverage found yet
No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for dosbox. Package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.
Install behavior
- No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
- No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.
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local files
Configuration and credential file locations
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Configuration files
Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.
- Linux
~/.dosbox/dosbox-{version}.conf- macOS
~/Library/Preferences/DOSBox {version} Preferences- Windows
%LOCALAPPDATA%\DOSBox\dosbox-{version}.conf
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Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| No executable data was present. | |||
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-11-04
manager version0.74-3,3
manager updated
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected
- infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence
- infoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://www.dosbox.com/none confidence
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | cask:dosbox |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.74-3,3 |
| Package manager | Homebrew Cask |
| Package manager page | https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/dosbox |
| Homepage | https://www.dosbox.com/ |
| Upstream docs | https://www.dosbox.com/ |
| Source archive | https://downloads.sourceforge.net/dosbox/dosbox/0.74-3/DOSBox-0.74-3-3.dmg |
| SHA-256 | 83493d149318cb7bfe5d68d98d1cd10b003db2f0519374bf06de285dc0bb2768 |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Homebrew post-install | not defined |
| Service | none declared |
registry facts
Source database details
| Source Database | Homebrew cask API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/cask |
| Full Token | dosbox |
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| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
source database matches
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dnf95%
dosbox-staging 0.82.2-6.fc45
Modern continuation of DOSBox with advanced features
https://www.dosbox-staging.org/
sudo dnf install dosbox-staging- License: GPL-2.0-or-later AND Unlicense AND (MIT-0 OR Unlicense) AND MIT AND GPL-3.0-or-later AND LicenseRef-Fedora-Public-Domain AND Fair AND LGPL-2.1-or-later AND
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: dosbox-staging
- 20 dependencies
- 5 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Dosbox
source trail
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- curated configuration and credential file locations
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