FreeDOS is an open source operating system that allows you to run MS-DOS applications even though Microsoft stopped developing and supporting MS-DOS more than two decades ago. While FreeDOS has been feature complete for years, the developers have continued working on the software and this weekend they released FreeDOS 1.3. While there are plenty of […]
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Microsoft releases MS-DOS source code to GitHub
Four years after working with the Computer History Museum to release the source code for MS-DOS, Microsoft is “re-open-sourcing” its command line operating system from the ’80s. This time the company is making the source code for MS-DOS 1.25 and MS-DOS 2.0 available through GitHub. The company says the files are the same, but posting […]
FreeDOS keeps classic computing alive (LPX Show interview)
It’s been more than two decades since Microsoft started to move away from MS-DOS with the launch of Windows 95. But a generation of computers users grew up with DOS in the 80s and 90s and there are thousands of programs and games developed for the platform. Many are still worth running. Some classic games […]
MS DOS and Word for Windows source code released
Microsoft has just released the source code for one of its operating systems… but don’t worry. Hell hasn’t frozen over. It’s just that a lot of time has passed and the software isn’t really all that useful anymore. Working with the Computer History Museum, Microsoft is making the source code for MS DOS 1.1 and […]