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1. Using js-dos api#

To run bundle you just need a one line of code:

Dos(document.getElementById("jsdos")).run("some.jsdos");

Dos receives HTMLDivElement and uses it to create the player UI. To run jsdos bundle just use its method run specifying the url of jsdos bundle.

To use js-dos you need to add js-dos.js script, and js-dos.css style (releases). Also you need to specify path prefix of js-dos installation:

<script src="<path>/js-dos.js"></script>
<link href="<path>/js-dos.css" rel="stylesheet">
// ...
<script>
emulators.pathPrefix = "<path>/";
Dos(<element>).run(<bundleUrl>);

Complete example:

examples/dos.html
Run
{}
info

By default, js-dos will load wasm modules relatively from current path, you should specify variable pathPrefix if you want to load them from different place:

emulators.pathPrefix = "<some-path>/";

2. Using emulators-ui#

From v7 js-dos npm package is only a wrapper script that combines emulators and emulators-ui packages. It didn't contains code itself. It's useful if you don't want to make customizations in UI or custom integration. js-dos package is single file solution to run DOS programs.

If you want to make customizations or something special then you need to use emulators and emulators-ui package in combination. They provide absolutely same functions as js-dos package and lot more (see threejs integration).

To change code above to use emulators-ui just change scripts imports to:

<script src="emulators/emulators.js"></script>
<script src="emulators-ui/emulators-ui.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="emulators-ui/emulators-ui.css">

Complete example:

examples/ui-dos.html
Run
{}

You can build custom DOS player reusing emulators-ui components.

3. Using emulators#

In case you don't want to use the browser API of js-dos project, you can use just the emulators package. Read the guide to how we use emulators to estimate js-dos performance.

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