iDOS 2 app for iPhone and iPad
Play original dos games on your iPhone/iPad!
Features:
- Program launcher with batch file
- Support both portrait, and full screen landscape with floating control.
- PC compatible soft keyboard
- Virtual Gamepad & Joystick
- Virtual Mouse (use the display as trackpad)
Notes:
- Require basic knowledge with DOS command line
- Please dont enter "exit" command
- Open source: https://github.com/litchie/dospad
Pros and cons of iDOS 2 app for iPhone and iPad
iDOS 2 app good for
Another big impertinance of Apple: File access with iOS 8.3 no longer possible.
So its no longer possible to copy / manage DOS programs with iDOS 2.
In principle iDOS2 would be a great app - unless you update your iPhone to 8.3 or higher!
My suggestion to Chaoji Li is to move the batch file folder and the games folder to option "App File Sharing", so it would be possible to work even with iOS 8.3!
Anyway thanks for the short time I could work senseful with iDOS2 (until I made the mistake and update my iPhone to 8.3)
It does not work with an iphone5s and ios 9.0.1. But the same app still runs fine on my ipad air with 9.0.1. Crash to homescreen when dosbox loads.
I like to spend time with this app. I mean i spend nearly ten years with these level of computers.
I really like Thai dos emulator, but you can no longer enter any commands. The only thing you can do is play either of the two games. Please fix this!
Finally, I have a reason to dust off my old DOS games. Installing into iDOS was not easy, but not terribly difficult, either. Folks who use the app right "out-of-the-box" will notice only two games, because you have to import others via iTunes or another method and then modify play.bat to recognize the new games. Overall, though, the app is every bit as flexible as DOSBox, and Im now happily enjoying both The Settlers II and Master of Orion II, on my iPhone.
Some bad moments
ENABLE THE FILE SHARING PLEASE. WHAT ARE YOU DOING?WHY YOU DONT ENABLE IT? IS IT HARD ENABLE?
It Starts, but when I try to access options, the App crashes ...
It will only allow you to play Duke Nukem and Haunted. You cant enter anything into the command line.
I can play whatever dos games I want on PC using dosbox. I purchased this idos2 instead of using the free idos app just want to play my own dos game not the preinstalled default ones, but cant!
App crash at start.
Программа вылетает при запуске. iPhone 6 Plus iOS 9.0.2
This is the real deal! I cant believe idos made it back into the AppStore. Its great to run dos games from the 90s. Of course you can do more than just run dos games. Hopefully iDOS 2 is here to stay for a long time. It would be nice if Chaoji Li makes iDOS 2 just as good as Dosbox Turbo from the google store. Now we need Aemula - 80486 PC Emulator!