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DOSBox-SVN - RetroBIOS

Type libretro
Source https://github.com/libretro/dosbox-svn
Version SVN
Profiled 2026-03-23
Cores dosbox_svn
Systems dos

No BIOS or firmware files required. This core is self-contained.

Same codebase as dosbox_svn_ce, builds against a fake SDL shim (WITH_FAKE_SDL=1) instead of real SDL, for broader platform compat. ref: libretro/Makefile.libretro, libretro/fakesdl/

No MT-32 emulation. src/midi/munt referenced in Makefile.common:15 does not exist, no MUNT submodule. MIDI is hardware-only (ALSA, CoreAudio, CoreMIDI, Win32, OSS) + retro_midi_interface. ref: src/gui/midi.cpp

system_directory set and logged (libretro.cpp:1399-1401), never used to load files. Config uses retro_save_directory (cross.cpp:61-71). Keyboard layouts and codepages embedded in binary. ref: dos_keyboard_layout_data.h, dos_codepages.h

.info firmware_count=0, matches code.

Generated on 2026-03-25T06:03:30Z