DOSee

An MS-DOS emulator for the web.

DOSee is a front-end for an MS-DOS emulation ecosystem to use on the web. The text-based MS-DOS was the dominant personal computer platform for much of the 1980s up until the mid-1990s before being superseded by Microsoft Windows. Emulating this platform allows the running of tens of thousands of games, demos and applications from this era to run on a web browser!

DOSee is only a user interface and installation process for an incredible emulation ecosystem created by many amazing people over many years. DOSee itself is a fork of The Emularity project created by the Internet Archive. EM-DOSBox the core of this emulation is a JavaScript port of DOSBox, the world's most popular MS-DOS emulator.

What's new

Changes and updates can be found in CHANGES.md

Requirements

• A web browser that supports JavaScript ES6 (ECMAScript 2015). Current Firefox, Chrome, Edge or Safari will work fine.
• A physical keyboard, as MS-DOS is a text-based operating system.
• npm or a Docker installation with docker-compose, instructions are below.

DOSee has to be served over a HTTP server, it can not be run using the browser file:/// protocol.

Instructions, npm

npm is the package manager for node.js and is included in that environment. It's available for all major platforms.

Clone DOSee.

git clone https://github.com/bengarrett/DOSee.git

Install dependencies.

cd DOSee
npm install --production --no-optional -only=prod

Run a local web server.

http-server -p 5550

Point a web browser to http://localhost:5550

Instructions, Docker

Requirements:

• Docker engine: 17.04.0+
• docker-compose: 3.2

Clone DOSee.

git clone https://github.com/bengarrett/DOSee.git

Build and run the DOSee container.

docker-compose up -d

Point a web browser to http://localhost:5550

To shutdown the DOSee container.

docker-compose down

Usage & customisations

Can be found in USAGE.md

License

1. DOsee is released under GPL-3.0.
2. Em-DOSBox located in /emulator is released under GPL-2.0.
3. /disk_drives and /dos_programs contain non-free software binaries that are included for convenience.