Open your Linux terminal and type or paste the following command. Find out more about how to do that in this Command Line article. To install DOSBox, you will first need to make sure your device is set up and ready to use Linux. After that, I’ll show you a couple of tricks to make using the DOS emulator a little more user-friendly. For that reason, you can install it on any Chromebook that supports Linux applications. As you can probably presume, there is a Linux version of DOSBox and it just happens to be available in the Debian repository. Unbeknownst to me at the time, DOSBox is a very popular emulator that not only allows users to play old school DOS games on a variety of platforms but the tech has also been adapted to run thousands of archived PC games right in your browser. In fact, it’s been around for nearly two decades and its sole purpose is to emulate DOS in an x86 environment. Just to be clear, this application is not new. Along the way, I discovered a nifty little app that I had never heard of until this week. Somewhere along the way, I decided to fiddle with MS-DOS. I’m back at it! I spent the better part of yesterday morning tinkering with virtual machines and the Linux container on my Chromebook to see was sort of shenanigans I could get myself into.
