dosbox-x VS fdbox

Compare dosbox-x vs fdbox and see what are their differences.

dosbox-x

DOSBox-X fork of the DOSBox project (by joncampbell123)
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dosbox-x fdbox
64 5
2,468 10
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9.9 0.0
4 days ago over 1 year ago
C C
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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dosbox-x

Posts with mentions or reviews of dosbox-x. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-20.

fdbox

Posts with mentions or reviews of fdbox. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-26.
  • What is DOSShell, and how do I get to it?
    4 projects | /r/Batch | 26 Dec 2022
    FDBox from GitHub Note that it's technically meant for FreeDOS but could work
  • Little project program on C
    3 projects | /r/C_Programming | 6 Nov 2021
    Cool, waiting for your PR: https://github.com/elcuco/fdbox/
  • fdbox - a new shell for MSDOS/freeDOS
    3 projects | /r/C_Programming | 2 Nov 2021
    Regarding the code: its modern C code. It does not look outdated, my main target is Linux/OSX/Windows, but I keep it in such way that good old TurboC can compile it (on modern OSes I use cmake for the build system). I even made a script that creates a "D:" drive for me to develop, so I start dosbox and then I can run "tc" and compile the project (see the readme file on the github project, and also https://github.com/elcuco/fdbox/blob/main/etc/create_dosbox_dir.sh). As part of the CI/GithubActions I build on every commit the code and tests for Linux/Mac/Windows/DOS. Tests are run on all 3 modern platforms, and I will eventually run this on a dosemu session or something. I invested a lot in tooling.
  • Write a minimal shell in pure win32
    1 project | /r/C_Programming | 29 Oct 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing dosbox-x and fdbox you can also consider the following projects:

dosbox-staging - DOSBox Staging is a modern continuation of DOSBox with advanced features and current development practices.

hashpling - hashpling allows you to use shebang on non-UNIX platform

winevdm - 16-bit Windows (Windows 1.x, 2.x, 3.0, 3.1, etc.) on 64-bit Windows

Rufus - The Reliable USB Formatting Utility

86Box - Emulator of x86-based machines based on PCem.

Minibox - Small Linux commands for resource limited systems

ao486_MiSTer - ao486 port for MiSTer

ansiscape - Color your output using Ansi Escape codes

MS-DOS - The original sources of MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0, for reference purposes

docker-dosbox - Run DOSBox in a docker container

Animator-Pro - A classic paint program originally for dos

Dos64-stub - small stub that allows to run "bare" 64-bit PE binaries in DOS