DOS Gaming Made Easy with eXoDOS

DOS Gaming Made Easy with eXoDOS - 7500 games

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DOS games span the whole home computer revolution years from the early 80's to the mid 90's. There are thousands of great titles to enjoy, but setting up DOSBox to emulate them can be tricky.
The eXoDOS project solves this problem by giving you a ready made package of over 7500 games all set up and ready to run as a single download. With multiple, customised versions of DOSBox, wrapped up in the LaunchBox frontend you'll be up and running in no time at all.
Make sure you check out the main project page at
bytesnbits.co.uk/exodos-dos-g...
eXoDOS
www.retro-exo.com/exodos.html
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@RetroeXo 2 ай бұрын

Hey there. Thanks for covering my project. You mentioned the "coders" who work on this, which gave me a chuckle, as I wouldn't consider myself a coder at all. I just write everything in batch script and it seems to work well enough =)

@BytesNBits 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for the project. It's a great resource for all us DOS fans. You're very modest. Anyone who can get this number of emulators / games / setups working deserves a medal.

@L-double-J Ай бұрын

Your project rocks 🙌🏼

@hal58th 3 ай бұрын

This is a crazy amount of work they did. Thanks for sharing

@BytesNBits 3 ай бұрын

It's a great project. Do check out their funding section if you find it useful - should probably have mentioned that in the video!

@Red-Revolution708 3 ай бұрын

@@BytesNBitsPlease read my comment, love your vids, I watch all your vids all the time.

@JoelFabiani 2 ай бұрын

All respect to @retroexo. Kudos all involved. Priceless.

@BytesNBits 2 ай бұрын

I agree!

@christianf.4833 Ай бұрын

Bought a small elitedesk pc to make it a DOS gaming box using this. Great video.

@BytesNBits Ай бұрын

Have fun!

@darkpadden 3 ай бұрын

Exo is a neat fellow been around for a long time.

@BytesNBits 3 ай бұрын

Yes. Great project.

@songsan807 3 ай бұрын

I had a dream or was daydreaming about playing my old DOS games again. Guess that dream is about to come true.

@BytesNBits 3 ай бұрын

Great. Have Fun!

@jonathont5570 2 ай бұрын

Been using it since Version 2, seems like forever. They also have a great WIN 3.1 as well that is really good.

@BytesNBits 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for the tip. I'll try out the Windows version.

@Astra8676 3 ай бұрын

Great Video, always well presented and full of info!! Do reckon you can transfer some of these games into Retropie!!

@BytesNBits 3 ай бұрын

The full download package comes with all the games as zip files. You should be able to use those in any DOS emulator. eXoDOS takes those files and heavily optimises the way they are run so you won't get that expert setup.

@hal58th 3 ай бұрын

@@BytesNBits That setup is the hard port though.

@pgtmr2713 2 ай бұрын

Have you tried Twister OS. Retropie is on the desktop already and it has dos friendly programs on it. Box86, WINE. I knoe I've gotten Blakestone to work on it and Doom.

@wince333 3 ай бұрын

CRAAZZZYYYY ALEXANDRIA BIBLIOTHEQUE FOR retro games!! 🎉🎉🎉

@BytesNBits 3 ай бұрын

Yes. It's a great project.

@umutkayacan7659 3 ай бұрын

Sorry for the late comment. Nice Vid 😅😅

@BytesNBits 3 ай бұрын

Thanks. Thought you'd abandoned me :(

@andrewdupuis1151 3 ай бұрын

thanks for dos box playing dos games

@BytesNBits 3 ай бұрын

No problem 👍

@user-Limaa 3 ай бұрын

nice dear, i´m looking for a Baremetal (stand alone DOS) like a dedicate batocera DOS with prompt, de FREEDOS don´t work audio well

@marccaselle8108 3 ай бұрын

With freedos, if you want sound card sound, you'll have to install SBEMU inside the freedos folder and setup the files correctly. Freedos isn't compatible with lots of DOS games. MS DOS 6.22 is still the king, as far as compatible games go. 🙂

@BytesNBits 3 ай бұрын

As @marccaselle8108 says you'll need SBEMU to get better sound but even then it's a bit hit and miss. I use DOSBox X running inside Linux to make a DOS gaming PC in this video. For me it was the best compromise. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kOCgnLOQ0rSqnmw.html

@apollolux 3 ай бұрын

This might handle games, but what about certain semi-popular DOS programs like music trackers, particularly Impulse Tracker? Does eXoDOS provide a mechanism to allow users to customize config for programs not covered by its internal list/add them to a user-provided list in such cases?

@BytesNBits 3 ай бұрын

eXoDOS is basically a wrapper around DOSBox that fits inside Launchbox. It's very tailored to games. If you want to use some other software I'd go for a standalone DOSBox-X (the X version is easier to set up) installation separate to the eXoDOS setup. I made a video using a Linux PC but the setup is basically the same on Windows - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kOCgnLOQ0rSqnmw.html. Once you've got it set up you can then just install any apps you want as if it was a DOS PC.

@apollolux 3 ай бұрын

@@BytesNBits Groovy, thanks for pointing me in a decent direction!

@BoraHorzaGobuchul Ай бұрын

@@apollolux there's also pcem and it's fork which precisely emulate a dos PC. More fidelity, but also more resources intensive, particularly if you want to go into later pentium territory

@badbones777 Ай бұрын

Is it possible to get this to work if as in my case I already have a launchbox setup, but I store the actual games on an external hard drive?

@BytesNBits Ай бұрын

The ExoDOS downloader saves the files into folders in the eXo folder inside the Launchbox installation folder. So I guess it will all work but just not save the games to your external drive. I don't know if you can override the default save location.

@chriswalsh3149 10 күн бұрын

If I were to install this, I would need 700gb + space to download the files. How much more space would I need on top of this to extract and intall everything? It seems like I need about 1500Gb of disc space. Am I right?

@chriswalsh3149 10 күн бұрын

For full download and install that is.

@BytesNBits 8 күн бұрын

Yes. You're about right with the disk sizes. It's a big download to get everything in one go. I use the on demand setup as there are a whole load of games I'll probably never try out.

@tonibahloni920 15 күн бұрын

What about Roland sound?

@BytesNBits 14 күн бұрын

exoDOS sets up a lot of parameters for each game. You can override these if you want. Once you're in a game you're really running under DOSBox-X

@tubeDude48 3 ай бұрын

At 3:40, that link appeared to be dead. I tried it on 3 browser's.

@BytesNBits 3 ай бұрын

I've added the link to the description and that seems fine. Please try it from there.

@tubeDude48 3 ай бұрын

@@BytesNBits - Nope, still does nothing. Just times out. I wonder if it is blocked here in the US? All your other links work.

@Red-Revolution708 3 ай бұрын

It drives you ‘CRAZY’ but keep going lol.

@BytesNBits 3 ай бұрын

@@tubeDude48 That's really strange. If you do a Google search for eXoDOS you should be able to find it through that. See if the Google link does anything? Try a different browser as well if you can.

@tubeDude48 3 ай бұрын

@@BytesNBits - tried 3 brower's, none of them could find eXoDOS. I give up.

@vizionthing 3 ай бұрын

7500 game reviews incoming?

@BytesNBits 3 ай бұрын

Lol. I do the setup you do the games.

@Red-Revolution708 3 ай бұрын

I love your vids but hate emulation, I tried it they work then they don’t work it drove me ‘Mad’ but I love your vids you make it look easy. I bought a Trimui Smart Pro put the software in didn’t work 🤔 then I bought a Wii u to put software in, the Wii U it worked but failed, I bought LaunchBox for Big-Box drove me mad 😠 lol , tried Xbox 360 Xenia worked then didn’t work lol. I Love your vids though because I will keep trying got to, although at the moment lol 😅.

@BytesNBits 3 ай бұрын

Sorry to hear you're having issues. Emulation is pretty good once you've got it set up correctly. It sounds like you've had a run of bad luck with the devices. Don't give up!

@RetroeXo 2 ай бұрын

Try this pack. You don't have to wish e about emulation. It all works out of the box. That's the entire point of it

@IKS_Opinion Ай бұрын

The ONLY problem of this videos is sound. But thank you anyway.

@BytesNBits Ай бұрын

Hope you still enjoyed it.

@simplyhard 3 ай бұрын

This video could do without the introductionary history lesson. Not every video needs to start off by excusing itself in guise of educating the audience for three minutes before it starts.

@BytesNBits 3 ай бұрын

Some people like it some don't. Please just skip ahead.

@lordterra1377 3 ай бұрын

You must be real fun at parties.