diff --git a/pkgs/data/fonts/dosemu-fonts/default.nix b/pkgs/data/fonts/dosemu-fonts/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..6f325b4ea4f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/data/fonts/dosemu-fonts/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+{stdenv, fetchurl, bdftopcf, mkfontdir, mkfontscale}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "dosemu-fonts";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = mirror://sourceforge/dosemu/dosemu-1.4.0.tgz;
+    sha256 = "0l1zwmw42mpakjrzmbygshcg2qzq9mv8lx42738rz3j9hrqzg4pw";
+  };
+
+  configurePhase = "true";
+  buildPhase = "true";
+
+  buildInputs = [bdftopcf mkfontdir mkfontscale];
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    fontPath="$out/share/fonts/X11/misc/dosemu"
+    mkdir -p "$fontPath"
+    for i in etc/*.bdf; do
+      fontOut="$out/share/fonts/X11/misc/dosemu/$(basename "$i" .bdf).pcf.gz"
+      echo -n "Installing font $fontOut..." >&2
+      bdftopcf $i | gzip -c -9 > "$fontOut"
+      echo " done." >&2
+    done
+    cp etc/dosemu.alias "$fontPath/fonts.alias"
+    cd "$fontPath"
+    mkfontdir
+    mkfontscale
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Various fonts from the DOSEmu project";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 9fde8edf4fa..5526d33f1a3 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -6131,6 +6131,8 @@ let
 
   docbook_xsl_ns = callPackage ../data/sgml+xml/stylesheets/xslt/docbook-xsl-ns { };
 
+  dosemu_fonts = callPackage ../data/fonts/dosemu-fonts { };
+
   freefont_ttf = callPackage ../data/fonts/freefont-ttf { };
 
   gentium = callPackage ../data/fonts/gentium {};