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The DOSBox emulator compiled for the browser, and the machinery most of the other DOS-in-a-tab projects are built on.
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js-dos sits in Emulators & Old OS under Retro, filed as coffee break.
About this category: Operating systems, arcade cabinets and dead software booted inside a browser tab. Nostalgia with a working keyboard.
Yes. js-dos is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use js-dos without signing up for anything.
Not well. We file js-dos as desktop only, so open it on a laptop or desktop computer.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It does need sound, so bring headphones.
We file it as "Coffee break": Five to fifteen minutes of proper attention.
Thousands of DOS games, each booting in the browser on click. No download, no configuration, no floppy disk swapping.
Historically accurate emulations of early PCs, down to the timing, with the original manuals and ROM listings alongside.
Eight and sixteen-bit console libraries running in the browser, organised by system, with save states that actually work.
Coin-operated arcade cabinets from the seventies onward, emulated in a tab, attract mode and all.
Space the letters of a word by eye, then see the typographer's answer laid over the top of yours. Reliably humbling.
Teaches touch typing by generating fake words from the letters you keep fumbling, rather than making you copy out prose.
One golf hole a day, built to look trivial and then take nine attempts, with a score everybody can compare.
Start with one enormous dot; every pass of the cursor splits it into four, until the pixels resolve into a picture.
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