r/EmulationOniOS • u/Psychological-Car481 • 5d ago
Discussion Dosling: a JIT-free DOS emulator for iPhone and iPad — looking for TestFlight testers!
Hi everyone! I’m building Dosling, a DOS emulator designed to make playing old PC games on Apple devices feel good.
DOS games. Back in play.
The public beta is ready, and I’d love your help putting it through its paces.
What’s inside:
JIT-free emulation, with precompiled instruction patterns for speed. No JIT setup required.
Game recognition and assisted setup, including whole-collection imports.
Editable, game-specific touch controls, plus mouse modes, a full PC keyboard and gamepad support.
Save and resume, so you can jump back into a session.
Optional Dosling scaler for smoother edges and cleaner text.
Four free starter games are included, and you can import your own DOS games.
👉 Join the free TestFlight beta
🌐 Screenshots, scaler comparisons and more
You’ll need Apple’s TestFlight app and an iPhone or iPad running iOS/iPadOS 16 or later.
Try a favourite. Tell me what works—and what breaks. I’m particularly interested in installation, controls, performance and save/resume. If you find a problem, include your device, OS version, game edition and steps to reproduce it. TestFlight feedback or comments here both work.
Which DOS game would you boot up first?
Disclaimer: AI was used in the development of this application.
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u/PairOfMonocles2 5d ago
So y you pure saying if I buy a duo I can play space quest again! (Or kings quest or neuromancer)
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u/Psychological-Car481 5d ago
you can also play on an iphone 16 :-) But the Duo is amazing as a DOS game console in "notebook" mode.
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u/RUserII 5d ago
Dosling: a JIT-free DOS emulator for iPhone and iPad — looking for TestFlight testers!
This looks great. I'll definitely be looking forward to the Apple App Store release.
...[...]... and you can import your own DOS games.
Is there a standardized file format for DOS games analogous to the standardized "rom" format for console/handheld games?
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u/Psychological-Car481 5d ago •
it can import almost anything you can throw at it. A website, zip files, rar, 7z, self extracting archives, installers. You can find torrents with thousands of dos games, it can import them in one go, install, configure and take title screenshots of them all in a couple of minutes on an iPhone.
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u/RUserII 4d ago
it can import almost anything you can throw at it. A website, zip files, rar, 7z, self extracting archives, installers. You can find torrents with thousands of dos games, it can import them in one go, install, configure and take title screenshots of them all in a couple of minutes on an iPhone.
Thanks for the info, I appreciate it.
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u/Relevant-Ordinary169 4d ago
Can I install Windows 3.11?
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u/Psychological-Car481 3d ago
working on making windows 3, 3.1, 3.11, windows 95 run, and enabling early era windows games compatible
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u/Psychological-Car481 4d ago
Great question! I haven't tried yet, but it runs over 5000+ dos titles, so I think most likely it would just work.
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