Distro – Dosbian 3.0 – Carmelo Maiolino’s blog

09/01/2025 released DOSBIAN 3.0 for Raspberry Pi 3/4/400/5/500

WHAT’S NEW IN VERSION 3.0

• Latest distro updates applied to run in Raspberry Pi 5/500.
• Dosbox Staging updated to version 0.82, now with support for MMX instructions (Please see official sites for all the changements).

Incredible performances expecially with Raspberry Pi 5/500, Dosbian V3.0 guarantees you an incredible DOS experience.

Rewritten from scratch starting from the new Bookworm OS for Raspberry Pi, Dosbian is the first distro totally dedicated to the DOS world. It boots straight to Dosbox, from there, you can install whatever you want and building your retro-pc 🙂
Whether you love DOS games or you’re just fond of all the DOS retro software, this is the distro for you.

Just switch on your Raspberry Pi and in few seconds your Dos prompt will be ready to use. No configuration needed, just an old school command like based machine to enjoy!

What you can do with your Dosbian distro:

• Run all retro Pc Sofware (DOS / Win 3.1 / Win 95 / Win98)
• Run most of 90’s retro games
• Run games from LaunchBox frontend
• Run ScummVM Games
• Create empty floppy of size: 320KB, 720KB, 1,44MB
• Create empty HDDs of size: 256MB, 512MB, 1GB, 2GB
• Mount Floppy disk, CD-ROM or HDD using a GUI driven utility

PLEASE NOTE

Dosbian doesn’t contains any copyrighted material.
It’s up to you to install games/software or the operating system.

I knew someone on the web is selling my distro with OS pre-installed (that’s illegal). I’m not involved in to this, so please, if you want a genuine free Dosbian image, download the distro only from my blog.

The images below are just examples on what you can run on Dosbian, but nothing is included inside the distribution.

Example games running on Dosbian

Some software Dosbian is able to run

Terms of use and distribution

Dosbian is a donationware project, this means you can modify, improve, customise it as you like for your own use.

Dosbian Facebook group

Join the official Facebook group, a place where you can meet other friends and discuss about games, configurations, issues, etc.

Download

Please note: The distro doesn’t contain any copyrighted material.

Dosbian is compatible with the following Raspberry Pi models:

• Raspberry Pi 3B
• Raspberry Pi 3B+
• Raspberry Pi 3A+
• Raspberry Pi 4B
• Raspberry Pi 400
• Raspberry Pi 5
• Raspberry Pi 500

Do you like the project? Please consider to make a free donation using the button below

Note: Unzip the image with 7zip and use Win32DiskImager or Balena Etcher to flash it.

Did you like Dosbian?
Try Combian64, a dedicated distro that boots straight in to one of the old glory Commodore machines (64,128, Vic 20, PET, ecc).

Where to start from?

Here you can find some useful guide, link and tutorial:

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