DOSBox Staging

DOSBox Staging is a modern continuation of DOSBox, the original DOS emulator. It is developed by the DOSBox Staging team, released under the GNU GPL (version 2 or later), and has official builds for Windows, macOS and Linux.

It is mostly a drop-in replacement for older DOSBox versions, so existing configurations keep working. It comes with sensible defaults, so most games run well without any tweaking, and adds features such as automatic CRT shader emulation, aspect ratio correction and composite video emulation. It also emulates a long list of sound devices, including the Sound Blaster, Gravis UltraSound, Roland MT-32 and Sound Canvas, alongside 3dfx Voodoo graphics and ReelMagic video cards.

DOSBox Staging is in active development with regular releases. It is a good choice for playing DOS games today, while DOSBox-X is better suited to running Windows 3.x and 9x or Japanese PC-98 software.