Run DOS Software on Your Phone?

Emulators are not new. Playing old games is something of an internet obsession, especially arcade games under the MAME system. When a couple of friends emailed me saying their workplace had ground to a halt since discovering a x86 emulator I was interested but not shocked.

I was more intrigued when I found out it was Java based. Most often these things will not work on a Mac.

x86 Emulator Running on Macosx

x86 emulator on macosx


If you go check out the demos you can see a fully functional version of DOS running in your browser window. DIR and check out the games you can play.

JPC - mem:dosgames.img


They are the full, original PC versions, not conversions or rip-offs, the actual binaries running in your browser.

prince of persia on macosx

It’s not all fun and games. This will be useful for anyone who has an old proprietary utility or application they need to run. You can even have a play around with Linux, how cool is that?

This is cool enough to warrant talking about but it was only when I discovered that apparently it should run on your phone that I just had to look closer! Sounds like just the thing for my vacation. You can be sure as soon as I have posted this I will be finding out why it won’t currently run even though they clearly show a n95 working. Next step will be every old DOS game I can. Wouldn’t it be cool if by the time you read this I will be sat on the beach playing Duke Nukem? :)

Get the download here or go to the online demos to have a play!

Posted on July 3, 2008 by Chris Garrett 
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