- Price$4.99
- CategoryGames
- Versions2 archived
- Installable2 of 2
- AvailabilityRemoved from the App Store
- SellerFastIntelligence
- Bundle IDcom.litchie.idosgames
RequirementsCompatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later.
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Report an issuePlay classic DOS games on your iPhone and iPad!
iDOS turns your device right into a powerful DOS gaming PC, with modern game control to make your old favorites as playable as possible.
You can also use iDOS for non-gaming purposes, such as word processing, casual programming. Apps in the DOS days are often simpler and surprisingly productive.
KEYBOARD
iDOS provides a PC compatible on-screen keyboard with carefully designed layouts for different devices and orientations. The keyboard has a sliding control in landscape mode so that you can keep it from covering critical part of the screen.
Bluetooth keyboard is fully supported on iOS 14+.
GAMEPAD
iDOS provides a virtual gamepad with key bindings that are fairly common in DOS games. You can customize the bindings. The DPAD works in 8-axis way. It can also be toggled into a joystick.
External bluetooth game controllers are supported. Make sure your game controller is connected (System Settings->Bluetooth). To customize button bindings, go to iDOS in landscape mode, tap on bluetooth icon on the auto-hiding top bar.
MOUSE
The screen area serves as a trackpad for moving mouse pointer. Tap on the screen for left click. If direct touch is enabled, the mouse pointer will move to where you tap. Hold one finger on the screen, and tap with another finger for right click.
On-screen mouse buttons are also provided for your convenience.
Bluetooth mouse are fully supported on iOS 14+.
SUPPORT
- Visit https://litchie.com/dospad for more information - Send email to [email protected] - Follow the developer on Twitter: https://twitter.com/litchiedev - iDOS is open source, report issue on https://github.com/litchie/dospad
Chart History
Ratings Over Time
| Date | Version | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 26, 2021 | — | ★ 3.7 | 142 | $4.99 |
From archived App Store listing data, captured by the Wayback Machine.
Archived Reviews
8 of 15Love it, thanks!
This was such an amazing app, being able to plug in a usb floppy and install right from the original disks was a very interesting experience. It’s a shame that Apple removed this while citing guideline 2.5.2 despite there being multiple apps still on the App Store that they allow without any issue
I have used this app to run a small batch of dos programs that I have collected and valued over the years and ported with me thru all my various computers and operating systems. Rumors are that Apple wants to remove this app from the App Store. Really bad and a big mistake. Many of us who are on the fence about jail breaking add side loading will now be in favor of those actions and will actively pursue legislation thru our elected officials. Come on, Apple! Wake up and realize that this app is totally harmless as are the dos programs it runs. Please let it stay in the App Store in its current development stage!
CANT SET CORE TO DYNAMIC . Please fix it
You need to fix imgmount and mount ok please fix
Not the best dos emulator due to Apple blocking updates and now threatening to remove the app, but the dev refused to give into Apple’s demands so he deservers all the support!
Your search for an easy-to-use emulation app! It seems like a few of the bad reviews are from folks with no knowledge of MS-DOS and how to navigate it (aka type the commands) so google Basic DOS commands learn a few and then try this app again because you WONT find a better one than this.
I like this so far. I like a few old dos games. The one I like most is Master of Orion. I was able to get this to work on my 11 inch iPad Pro 2nd gen. I was able to install iDOS 2 then use a flash drive to move the game folder to the iDOS folder with Files. There is one thing that would make this excellent. I used to use a program called Turbo DOS on my Samsung Android tablet. It had the ability to change the stylus to a mode that made it like a pointer. You click on the screen and the cursor moved to point. Here you have to move the cursor by sliding the Apple Pencil till the cursor is over what want to click. It is just nowhere near as intuitive. Add the ability to use the Pencil in this manner and I would give it 5 stars.
Period reviews recovered from Apple's customer-review feeds via the Wayback Machine.