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Modern movements to maintain compatibility of the MS-DOS API involve [[FreeDOS]] and [[DOSBox]]. They are both an installable operating system and an emulator respectively. DOSBox has even extended the MS-DOS API to other chipsets outside of [[x86]]. The other chipsets DOSBox has extended MS-DOS's API support to include [[PowerPC]], [[ARM Architecture]], [[MIPS]], [[SPARC]], etc.

The MS-DOS API has made its way onto [[handheld game console]]s, such as the [[GP2X]]; thanks to DOSBox being ported to the system. And has enabled some DOS games to be played on a handheld device. However, commonly ported DOS games such as [[DOOM]], [[Quake]] and [[Duke Nukem 3D]] don't need to rely on the MS-DOS API because they were extended to other operating systems and processor architectures through [[source port]]s.

==Operating systems with support for the MS-DOS API==