Automating Old Dos Application Using Python

Is there a way to automate an old DOS application (16-bit, probably needs an emulator such as DOSBox) from Python (on Windows)? I would like to send keys and strings to the applica

Solution 1:

I'm not familiar with DosBOX or whether it has an external API. However, for Sun VirtualBox there is a python API, so if it is OK to run DOS on a VM, you could easily use the VirtualBox Python API to control & automate the application you run on the DOS.

You can download the VirtualBox SDK here