emulator: DOSBox-SVN CE
type: libretro
source: "https://github.com/libretro/dosbox-svn"
upstream: "https://sourceforge.net/projects/dosbox/"
profiled_date: "2026-03-19"
core_version: "SVN CE"
display_name: "DOS (DOSBox-SVN CE)"
cores: [dosbox_svn_ce]
systems: [dos]
notes: |
  DOSBox-SVN CE (Community Edition) is the same codebase as dosbox_svn but
  builds against real SDL 1.2 + SDL_net instead of the fake SDL shim.
  ref: libretro/Makefile.libretro (WITH_FAKE_SDL flag)

  No MT-32 emulation — no MUNT bundled, no mt32emu, no FluidSynth, no BASS.
  The src/midi/munt directory referenced in Makefile.common does not exist.
  MIDI output is hardware-only (ALSA, CoreAudio, CoreMIDI, Win32, OSS).
  ref: src/gui/midi.cpp, src/gui/midi_alsa.h, midi_coreaudio.h, etc.

  system_directory is read (libretro.cpp:1399) but only logged, never used
  to load any files.

  NOT an alias of dosbox_core — completely different MIDI capabilities.
  dosbox_core has MUNT + FluidSynth + BASSMIDI. This core has none.

  Requires libsdl1.2 and libsdl-net1.2 at runtime (.info notes).

files: []
# No BIOS, firmware, ROMs, or system files of any kind.