DOS ain't dead

freedos 1,2 it' out (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 31.12.2016, 20:16

Anyone willing to try DOSEMU2 pre-release with FD 1.2? I don't have any ideal setups (still have old Ubuntu 14.04 USB jump drive with older DOSEMU), but perhaps I'll wipe that and make a Fedora liveUSB one of these days.

Just to state the obvious, it's free and supports LFNs, multitasking, and full USB. Otherwise, what can you do? I guess you could buy online ROM-DOS 7 (LFNs) or DR-DOS 7.03 (real pre-emptive multitasking but limited to 64 MB per task). Or buy Win9x or eCS (obviously, and I feel like I shouldn't have to remind anyone of that).

And if you want LFN support in basic tools, use DJGPP 2.05's CoreUtils (aka, File- Text- Shell-).

Anyways, even without all of that boring modern fluff , I'm impressed by the work done by Jim, Jerome, Mateusz, et al. We should be heavily grateful for all of their work.

Complete thread:

• freedos 1,2 it' out - iw2evk, 05.11.2016, 09:42
  • freedos 1,2 it' out - marcov, 05.11.2016, 19:03
  • freedos 1,2 it' out - Rugxulo, 05.11.2016, 22:06
    • freedos 1,2 it' out - Laaca, 07.11.2016, 14:33
      • freedos 1,2 it' out - alexfru, 09.11.2016, 08:35
      • freedos 1,2 it' out - Rugxulo, 26.12.2016, 19:03
        • freedos 1,2 it' out - iw2evk, 27.12.2016, 13:43
          • freedos 1,2 it' out - Laaca, 27.12.2016, 17:36
            • freedos 1,2 it' out - iw2evk, 27.12.2016, 18:01
              • freedos 1,2 it' out - rr, 02.01.2017, 22:29
            • freedos 1,2 it' out - Rugxulo, 31.12.2016, 20:16
              • freedos 1,2 it' out - RayeR, 02.01.2017, 18:40
                • freedos 1,2 it' out - tom, 03.01.2017, 13:07
                  • freedos 1,2 it' out - RayeR, 05.01.2017, 18:54
                    • freedos 1,2 it' out - tom, 06.01.2017, 18:07
                • freedos 1,2 it' out - Rugxulo, 03.01.2017, 23:52
                  • freedos 1,2 it' out - RayeR, 05.01.2017, 18:57
                    • freedos 1,2 it' out - Rugxulo, 06.01.2017, 16:36