DOSBox-X: Free, cross-platform and complete DOS, Windows 3.x and 9x emulation

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  • dosbox-x

    DOSBox-X fork of the DOSBox project

  • From their repo:

    DOSBox-X is a cross-platform DOS emulator based on the DOSBox project (www.dosbox.com).

    Like DOSBox, it emulates a PC necessary for running many MS-DOS games and applications that simply cannot be run on modern PCs and operating systems. However, while the main focus of DOSBox is for running DOS games, DOSBox-X goes much further than this. Started as a fork of the DOSBox project, it retains compatibility with the wide base of DOS games and DOS gaming DOSBox was designed for. But it is also a platform for running DOS applications, including emulating the environments to run Windows 3.x, 9x and ME and software written for those versions of Windows.

    https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x

  • ao486_MiSTer

    ao486 port for MiSTer

  • There's work for that for the Mister system, https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/ao486_MiSTer

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  • winevdm

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

  • For a lot of those 16bit installers, WineVDM works wonders. https://github.com/otya128/winevdm It's not perfect compatibility for all 16bit programs but it does tend to work well enough at anything I've thrown at it.

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