Is it possible to run DOSBox in BSD/Unix text (console/tty) mode now?
If it is, ideally I would like to also try dosbox with https://github.com/shellinabox/shellinabox which uses java, and a built in mini ajax webserver, to serve any command line tool as a web page. It works incredibly well with SSH and telnet etc.
No. It is possible to run DOSBox without a window, using command-line arguments or specific commands in the [autoexec] section of DOSBox.conf. But otherwise, DOSBox is an SDL application.
There have already been attempts to put DOSBox in Java and Javascript.
DOSEMU with the '-dumb' argument will run DOS executables within the host shell and map the DOS stdio streams back to the host stdio streams. I don't know how compatible DOSEMU is with BSD, though -- it's primarily developed for Linux, although there was a port to NetBSD at one point. It might take some work to get running, depending on the BSD distro you're using, although it also might be possible to run a Linux binary of DOSEMU using a Linux compatibility layer in BSD.
