It supports a variety of video modes which are characteristic in this operating system, like Hercules, EGA, VGA, and VESA, among others.
It is also possible to emulate the functioning of both audio devices like the system speaker, Sound Blaster, Adlib, Tandy, or Gravis Ultrasound; and a modem under TCP and IPX networks.
DOSBox will make you look the old MS-DOS commands over, since all operations are carried out through the instructions of this operating system.
PQMethod with DOSBox for Mac Users Current release is PQMethod 2.35 for DOS (2014-04-23) with PQROT 2.0 (2014-05-02). 2014-06-29: Thanks to Bob Braswell there exists a complete PQMethod with DOSBox package for the Mac also, see below 'Install directions'! Popular free Alternatives to DOSBox for Windows, Linux, Mac, Web, Android and more. Explore 13 apps like DOSBox, all suggested and ranked by the AlternativeTo user community.
NotesFor Mac OS X 10.3 or higher
Dosbox Mac Os X
DOSBox has already been ported to many different platforms, such as Windows, BeOS, Linux, MacOS X...
DOSBox also emulates CPU:286/386 realmode/protected mode, Directory FileSystem/XMS/EMS, Tandy/Hercules/CGA/EGA/VGA/VESA graphics, a SoundBlaster/Gravis Ultra Sound card for excellent sound compatibility with older games...
You can 're-live' the good old days with the help of DOSBox, it can run plenty of the old classics that don't run on your new computer. DOSBox is totally free of charge and OpenSource.
What's New:
- Fixed that a very long line inside a bat file would overflow the parsing buffer. (CVE-2019-7165 by Alexandre Bartel)
- Added a basic permission system so that a program running inside DOSBox can't access the contents of /proc (e.g. /proc/self/mem) when / or /proc were (to be) mounted. (CVE-2019-12594 by Alexandre Bartel)
- Several other fixes for out of bounds access and buffer overflows.
- Some fixes to the OpenGL rendering.