Recent changes to feature-requests

#126 DOSBox does not conform to the XDG Base Directory Specification

bam80 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 16:22:33 -0000

Please implement this, we really need this. Polluting $HOME is no more an option nowadays.

#118 Accessible and fast CLI-mode

Thu, 06 Nov 2025 21:00:32 -0000

DELETE THIS FEATURE REQUEST

#157 Portable Version

Corona688 — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 21:58:45 -0000

It is important that you do so because other people are already doing it for you -- and probably bundling malware with it. I became suspicious when their "portable dosbox" arrived as an exe, NOT a zip. Deleted with extreme prejudice.

#158 Render to console

unxed — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 20:35:23 -0000

Modern Wine version work just like this for text mode apps.

Render to console

unxed — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 20:25:31 -0000

With modern advanced terminals, like kitty, it is possible to have full information about keyboard events in console apps. It is also possible to color any screen cell in any TrueColor color. May it be possible now to make DOSBox render text EGA/VGA/... modes to console?

Portable Version

zaisty — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 23:05:35 -0000

Please add in next release official portable version in zip file. Thanks.

#156 DosBox: Red Baron joystick controls

tor — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 20:35:13 -0000

to 'join/participate' the development of DosBox

The DOSBox forks under active development welcome Pull Requests:
- DOSBox Staging
- DOSBox-X
- DOSBox Pure

At the original DOSBox repository you can try submitting a Patch.

DosBox: Red Baron joystick controls

Harri J. L. — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 17:33:01 -0000

Hopefully this site/forum is now "the correct" place: 😏

Problem:
- Installed Red Baron (GOG), installed 'newest' DosBox (0.74-3), installed XB146.zip and still unable to figure it out: which 'function' calibrates which axis one?

Only X/Y-axis calibrations are 'clear':
- Rudder->'Roll'--> j-stick twist or slider
- Hat/Throttle --> j-stick hat or slider
- Why 'Hat' option has only 2 'test sets'?

Suggestion:
- Would be nice if there would be same 5 'displays' available, like when calibrating game controls in Windows: X/Y/Z, 'hat' and slider. OR at least calibration 'displays' for Z, Hat and Slider; when adjusting 'correct' control, display 'reacts' to it.

Otherwise:
- j-stick (Thrustmaster Flight Stick X) works just fine.

Question:
- Is it possible to 'join/participate' the development of DosBox software (15+ years of working based experience with programming ) or is it 'private' project of some group/company/etc? 🤔

#140 64bit support

Martin Bayreuther — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 13:32:59 -0000

This sounds counterintuitive to me. The Dosbox 32-bit executable (in the Windows world) runs happily on 64-Bit Windows editions. On Linux it should compile to the same width as the core OS.

For guest apps, there is also no point. There never was any MSDOS version that supported 64 bit.

Add swapstereo

Patrick af Klercker — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 12:56:31 -0000

Could you add the swapstereo option to the [mixer] section? Default =false of course.

Then it would be possible to run a special .conf file for titles that have reversed stereo and no possibility to correct it in the game or setup program, like Terminal Velocity.

Apparently this setting is only available in some builds for DOSBox. Here is a thread with more context.
https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=95484