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EmuDOS

EmuDOS is a Windows frontend for DOS games — a Boxer-style "bookshelf" where each game is a box on a wooden shelf, built on the DOSBox Pure libretro core.

The goal is the Boxer experience on Windows: drop a game in, and it just works — the right CPU speed, sound card, and program to launch are figured out for you, and each game lives in its own self-contained folder you can back up or move.

This wiki documents how EmuDOS works and what it can do — the features, and the technical decisions behind them.

Features

• Getting Started — first run, downloading the core and catalog, adding games, the shelf
• Box Art — 2D and 3D boxes, where art comes from, dropping your own, bulk downloads
• Discs & Windows — CD games, multi-disc bundling, swapping discs, installing and booting Windows 9x
• Save States — quick save/load while playing
• Backups & Cloud Sync — local backups, and syncing saves/notes to your own private GitHub repo (optionally encrypted)
• Sound & MT-32 — sound cards, MIDI, and the emulated Roland MT-32 with its LCD
• Game Settings & Media — per-game options, the curated catalog, screenshots, recording, hotkeys

Technical

• How It Works — the DOSBox Pure core, the gamebox layout, and how settings are applied