DOSee

   

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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text-based MS-DOS was the dominant personal computer platform for much of the 1980s up until the mid-1990s before being superseded by Microsoft Windows.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 both online or offline as a desktop web-app!

Try it online at dosee.link

DOSee is an interface and installation process for an incredible emulation ecosystem created by many amazing people over the years.

The application 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 are in CHANGES.md.

Requirements

• A web browser that supports JavaScript ES6 (ECMAScript 2015), current Firefox, Chrome, Edge or Safari are good.
• A physical keyboard, as MS-DOS is a text-based operating system.
• Node.js, with yarn or npm and npx.

DOSee requires an HTTP server, it can not run using the file:/// browser protocol.

Instructions, download and build

DOSee requires building before it is ready to serve to a web browser.

Clone DOSee.

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

Install the dependencies and build DOSee.

npm is the included package manager for node.js that is available for all major platforms. yarn is an alternative, easier package manager for node.js.

cd DOSee
yarn # npm install

Future updates.

Any updates to the files in src/ require an install command to apply the changes.

yarn run install # npm run install

Serve, yarn

Serve the build directory over port 8086.

yarn run serve # npm run serve

Point a web browser to http://localhost:8086

Serve, Docker Compose

Run the DOSee container.

docker-compose up

Point a web browser to http://localhost:8086

Serve, Docker

Build DOSee using the included Dockerfile.

docker build -t dosee .

Run the DOSee image as a container.

docker run --name dosee_app -i -p 8086:80 dosee

Point a web browser to http://localhost:8086

docker stop dosee_app # to stop the container

Usage, hosting and troubleshooting.

Can be found in USAGE.md.

Licenses

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

Similar projects

• js-dos - The best API for running dos programs in the browser.