Microsoft, in collaboration with IBM, has announced that it is open-sourcing MS-DOS 4.00 as the two worked together on the underlying code. MS-DOS or Microsoft Disk Operating System was first ...

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It’s interesting that they would preserve what’s arguably the least popular version of MS-DOS in this way, but then again there’s something to be said for having a historical record on what ...

DOS_deck allows you to play MS-DOS games straight on your Steam Deck ... The layout looks almost identical to the Steam Deck UI, down to the black borders, gray background, and the way the ...

Back in the eighties and nineties, when there were no PlayStations and gaming consoles around, the only entertainment on the PCs was the MS-DOS games. Once served as the main operating system of ...

FreeDOS is an operating system that can run MS-DOS programs natively and will appeal more to enthusiasts. DOSBox is an ...

It wasn't elegant, but it would do until the elegant UI arrived. That was some 30 years ... bits and pieces of '90s- and early 2000s-era MS-DOS and Windows apps, including the Task Manager ...

Before Microsoft released MS-DOS, there was 86-DOS. Now version 0.1 is online thanks to a hobbyist’s archival work. By Andrew Paul Published Jan 5, 2024 2:13 PM EST Get the Popular Science daily ...

Microsoft has announced that it is open sourcing MS-DOS 4.0, in collaboration with IBM, who developed portions of the code. It will be available under the MIT license. This came about because an ...

MS-DOS 4.0 has now become part of this shared history. Ten years after releasing the source code of MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0, Microsoft is making yet another contribution to the world of open-source ...

If you’ve used MS-DOS before then you’ll be right at home right away—if you haven’t, you’ll need to brush up on the commands (we’ve already mentioned a couple of them). You can find ...