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Detecting DOSBox from Within the Box

by atan2 on 4/17/2026, 4:13:26 PM

https://datagirl.xyz/posts/dos_inside_the_box.html

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by: tombert

It never really occurred to me that you&#x27;d <i>want</i> to be able to detect if something is running in DOSBox, since I figured that the point was to be as compatible as possible with MS-DOS.<p>I guess it makes sense to try it anyway. Now I&#x27;m wondering how I&#x27;d be able to detect something like Concurrent DOS or REAL&#x2F;32 or REAL&#x2F;NG.

4/17/2026, 7:23:06 PM