DOSBox Staging is a modern continuation of DOSBox — your existing configurations will continue to work, and you will have access to many advanced features.
DOSBox Staging is a modern continuation of DOSBox with advanced features and current development practices. It is a (mostly) drop-in replacement for older DOSBox versions—your existing configurations will continue to work, and you will have access to many advanced features. DOSBox Staging comes with sensible defaults, so you’ll need to write a lot less configuration than with older DOSBox versions. Most games and applications require no tweaking and will work fine with the stock settings. However, the extensive configuration options and advanced features are available if you wish to delve deeper. Please refer to the Feature highlights on our front page to learn more about these.
What's new in 0.83.0-7b400
Summary After a rather long wait, the DOSBox Staging team is proud to present our new major 0.83.0 release! I think we’ve managed to outdo ourselves again as this has gotten even bigger than our monstrous 0.81.0 release. Instead of coming up with excuses why it took so long, let’s take a look at our new killer features: - 100% authentic Roland Sound Canvas SC-55 emulation via Nuked-SC55. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, we’ve bagged this long-coveted trophy of DOS gaming! I really couldn’t tell the difference between our emulation and the hardware SC-55 unit sitting on my desk during extensive A/B tests! - Authentic CRT colour emulation to take another big step towards faithfully emulating those miniature particle accelerators, also known as CRT monitors, on our modern flat screens! 😎 - Image adjustment controls to tweak the brightness, contrast, saturation, colour temperature, etc. settings, just like on a real CRT monitor. - Totally overhauled frame presentation that achieves better out-of-the-box results with proper VRR and vsync support in most circumstances. The new system is much simpler — the old presentation settings seemed to give everyone a headache. - Wide-gamut monitor support to achieve even better CRT-like results, and playing DOS games with radioactive colours on DCI-P3 displays is just not fun. - FMV deinterlacer to do those campy full-motion video 90s adventure games justice on modern screens. Yes, you can combine deinterlacing with any shader, including the CRT shaders. - Checkerboard dedither to remove dithering not just from those old EGA Sierra adventures, but from any DOS game on any graphics adapter (we just had to one-up ScummVM, hadn’t we? ). Again, you can combine dedithering with any shader. - A comprehensive user manual that goes beyond a reference guide: it covers basic concepts through detailed device configuration, and offers a historical overview of the DOS era for users who didn’t live through it. - HTTP API to muck around with the emulated memory and DOS internals to write modding and cheat tools as simple single-page web applications. The first one to reimplement Gold Box Companion using this API gets a prize! - Floppy and CD-ROM automounting to make setting up games even easier. - Disk noise emulation as there’s something oddly satisfying about listening to HDD and floppy drive chatter while a game loads. …
Yes. DOSBox Staging is free and open-source software released under the GPL-2.0-or-later license.
What is the latest version of DOSBox Staging?
The latest version is 0.83.0-7b400, released on Aug 27, 2026.
Is it safe to download DOSBox Staging?
The download button links to the official installer published on github.com, the same file Windows Package Manager installs. You can verify the downloaded file by comparing its SHA-256 checksum with a3f30b34870c1a3845258bee92f325d0efe22761adce9827820fb86edeac651d.
Which Windows versions does DOSBox Staging support?
DOSBox Staging runs on Windows and is available for 64-bit (x64) systems.
How do I install DOSBox Staging silently?
Run the offline installer with "dosbox-staging-windows-x64-v0.83.0-setup.exe" /VERYSILENT /SUPPRESSMSGBOXES /NORESTART /SP-, or install it with Windows Package Manager: winget install --id=DOSBoxStaging.DOSBoxStaging -e --silent.
How do I uninstall DOSBox Staging?
Open Settings › Apps › Installed apps, find DOSBox Staging and select Uninstall. From the command line, run winget uninstall --id=DOSBoxStaging.DOSBoxStaging -e.
