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2026-09-14 21:40 UTC

Unofficial wayland version of "DOSBox-Pure-Unleashed". With performance tweaks. Click here to download it. What it is From duckduckgo: "DOSBox Pure Unleashed is a standalone, free, and open-source emulator for desktop platforms (Windows, macOS, and Linux) designed to simplify the experience of playing classic MS-DOS games. Developed by Psyraven and released under the GNU General Public License, it serves as a user-friendly fork of the original DOSBox, originally evolving from a core used in RetroArch." Why Due to significant performance improvements over X11, a more aggressive CPU/GPU usage compared to its “vanilla” version. Note: You’ll have to lower CPU cycles and overall performance if you are on a beefy PC – this has been made with the “potato PC” (read: raspberry pizero) in mind. Which means, it’ll crank both CPU and GPU usage all the way (possible) to the top. The required dependencies are: “sudo apt install build-essential g++ make libsdl2-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libasound2-dev libpulse-dev libwayland-dev libxkbcommon-dev libegl1-mesa-dev libgles2-mesa-dev” if you are on debian. One-time config after extract: cp ZillaLib/Linux/ZillaAppLocalConfig.mk.example ZillaLib/Linux/ZillaAppLocalConfig.mk Paths are usually already correct on Debian/Ubuntu: EXTERNAL_SDL2_INCLUDE = /usr/include/SDL2 EXTERNAL_SDL2_SO = /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libSDL2.so (use aarch64-linux-gnu on ARM64) How to compile: Extract the tarball. Then, cd dosbox-pure-unleashed make linux-release -j$(nproc) export SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland ./Release-linux/DOSBoxPure_* How to install Simply copy the built binary to /usr/local/bin/. or to any directory you’d like. Notes I’ve tested this on a orange pi 5 max and everything works as intended. The results may differ on your PC, so keep that in mind.

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