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I wish these were all available on Android so that I could play them on my phone.

However, UI issues, my own technical incompetence and laziness (if they don't come up after a Play Store search then I don't check much further) stand in the way.

Unless someone has any suggestions? I would think DosBox would not work well on a small screen?

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DoxBox does IMO work well on Android but it's clunky to set up - you likely need some variant of a "hacker keyboard" installed to make initial setups easier for games, and then AFAIK you'll probably need to also install another keyboard of choice that supports the buttons your game needs.

All in all it likely is worth it for some games if you're nostalgic enough for them but don't feel like playing them when you're at your PC.

I've had more success playing old PlayStation games, personally (on ePSXe these days but I've used RetroArch in the past, which I should probably look at using again).

Thank you. Sounds like DosBox is worth it. I will give it a shot!

I second DosBox. Always fun playing Oregon Trail (on Win 3.1 no less!) on my Android phone

I think it would depend on the game you were running.

Monitor resolutions were low in the DOS days so a lot of the text and UI elements were relatively large to make them readable.

The virtual keyboard mapping would probably be the hard part.

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