DOSBox will continue to be a main focus for LaunchBox, as will emulation and PC gaming.
Turbo Dos Box Description: Very simple and small (~100KB no install needed) manager for configuration.Old Games Launcher Description: Direct Draw games launcher & Dosbox Frontend Website:.DOSShell Description: Applications launcher, plus convenient Explorer-like entries manager.
DOS version offers full SB-compatibility sound, VESA graphics, and mouse. Version 6.x (1997-2015) is for WinXP/Vista/Win7/Win8+ and is written in Visual Basic 2010. Version 4.64 (1997-2000) is for DOS/Win95/Win98/WinME and is written in 16-bit MS QuickBasic / MASM and has source code. Works for all DOS/WIN emulators as well as DOS PC Games by creating BAT files to start each PC game. Dreads QuickMAME Launcher Description: Open source frontend for DOSBOX.
Needs Tcl/Tk, which is a free, albeit big (20MB) software compiler that you will need to assemble the program for your operating system.
The current most popular frontends are, Boxer for MacOS X, D-Fend Reloaded for Windows, and DBGL which runs on multiple platforms. Some of them also support other emulators like ScummVM, Windows games, and console emulators.
The following frontends will help you run, install and manage your DOS games.