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[yt] Video showing a deep dive into the earliest to date copy of 86-DOS 0.11.

VCFed about 5 months ago

This video gives an in-depth look at what is currently the oldest known copy of 86-DOS, the antecedent to #MSDOS aka #PCDOS, where we go through the process of moving from CP/M, translating Z80 to 8086 code, and assembling it. Since this DOS predates the I …
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Need Tandy 1000HX ROM for PCEM v12 windows

VCFed about 5 months ago

Need Tandy 1000HX ROM for PCEM v12 windows. I followed the instructions below to install PCEM and emulate the Tandy 1000, but unable to find the 1000 HX rom for PCEM that works. Has anyone tried PCEM with a Tandy 1000 HX ROM? ... …
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Ancient DOS

VCFed about 5 months ago

Very interesting article . . . ... known version of DOS unearthed – MS-DOS ancestor 86-DOS version 0.1 C is now available on the Internet Archive Disk contains just ni …
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Earliest known copies of 86-DOS...

VCFed about 5 months ago

This past week I've been imaging disks in my 8" disk collection and I came across two awesome artifacts: ... DOS Version 0.1 C Serial # 11 ( ORIGINAL DISK) : Seattle Computer Products …

Asus eeePC 1000H on Intel Atom N270 ( i386 instruction set?): some questions

VCFed about 5 months ago

My son cleaned his room and found an old eeePC he had borrowed a long time ago. So now I am trying to see how to make it useful. Maybe someone can help me with a few questions: 1. The system was clearly designed for MS Windows, as the keyboard has the typ …
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MS-DOS 2 on single-sided floppy?

VCFed about 5 months ago

Hi all, I've got an MBC-555 (original recipe: two single-sided Teac FD-54As) and I'd like to run MS-DOS 2. What finally pushed me over the edge is that Kermit needs it, and I'd like to use Kermit to test my homemade serial card: Problem is, the only MS …
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The Making Of: Mario Is Missing, The Plumber's Oddest Adventure

Time Extension about 5 months ago

"I'm tickled it remains a topic of conversation all these years later".Mario, as we're all aware, is one of the most successful and instantly recognisable video game characters of all time. He's starred in more games than you've had hot dinners and, via th …
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Backpack 5 1/4 Floppy : 360KB on 1.2MB / TEAC 55-GFR

VCFed about 5 months ago

Thanks to help from @Chuck(G) and the invaluable @modem7 website - I was able to make a 5 1/4 Backpack work again on the parallel port of a Toshiba 2130 (486 era laptop) running msdos 6.22 The documentation of the backpack (the flyer) says this drive sh …

MS-DOS, OS/2 Warp Large Hard Drive boot/setup/etc.

VCFed about 5 months ago

I have a roughly 13GB hard drive that I'm getting ready to back up and install a drive overlay software on. It's a 486DX4/100 with 16MB and Warp 3 ran pretty well previously. I need to get an XTIDE ROM someday, but for now I'm going to stick with Ontrack D …
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Trying to get Space Quest III Pirates of Pestulon working on my Compaq Portable 1

VCFed about 5 months ago

Hi There ! For some reason, I cannot get SQ3 working on my Compaq portable. I have MS-DOS 6.22 loaded, no TSR. I have 640kb of memory using a SixPack Plus card When launching the game, I get a blinking cursor and that's it. No error, no sound. Unable to C …

PC 486SX (ao486) • DOSContainer alpha release

MISTerFPGA about 5 months ago

Dear fellow PC enthusiasts. Enjoy!https://gitlab.com/do... DOSContainer project started out over a year ago in response to me becoming aware of community-created "packs" of games. These come in the form of large hard drive images with …

IBM PC, PCXT, Tandy 1000 • Mtools and MS-DOS 3.3x

MISTerFPGA about 5 months ago

Would anyone here happen to know of any sort of in compatibility between GNU mtools and old versions of MS-DOS? I'm writing a tool that generates bootable hard disk images and everything is just fine from 6.22 down to 4.00 but 3.31 and 3.30 won't boot in …

HP's UCSD Pascal for MS-DOS?

VCFed about 5 months ago

I am trying to identify a Version of Pascal for MS-DOS. It seems to be a variant of UCSD Pascal, but I am not sure. Maybe the following details ring a bell somewhere... HP obviously used this system to develop software for the HP 150 as well as for the H …

MSDOS software to generate printable ASCII calenders

VCFed about 5 months ago

I seem to remember there was a simple MSDOS application that would generate a printable monthly or yearly calender as a text file. I may be thinking of pcal for Linux consoles. Anyone know of a simple command line app that generates a text calendar like …
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Pole Position II Skids Onto Nintendo Switch & PS4 Later This Week

Time Extension about 6 months ago

Arrives on December 7th.Namco's racing sequel Pole Position II will be coming to the Nintendo Switch eShop & PS4 this week on December 7th, as reported by Famitsu. It joins the original game, which was released across both consoles earlier this year on …

Software Compatibility Question

VCFed about 6 months ago

Hey everyone, I downloaded Elcotel PNM manager 2.2 (pay phone programming software) for running on my 386DX/33. However, the manual says it needs a 486, MS-DOS 6.2, and Windows (95, 98, or NT). Has anyone had success with running software with a computer …

xflash utility for Teknor ISA Single Board Computers SBC

VCFed about 6 months ago

hi all, I have a Teknor AT4 single board computer (486sx33), and from reading the manual there is a utility called 'xflash' that is used to manage the flash memory that is used to boot the computer as if it had a disk in the A: drive. The SBC i have i …

FREE MS-DOS OS AND SOFTWARE IN 5.25" FORMAT

VCFed about 6 months ago

Offered free to good home, my 5.25" floppy collection of MS-DOS software comprised mostly of MS-DOS system disks, Turbo Pascal, C, debuggers, and related along with Microsoft C and QuickC. This is a non-specific list but the collection contains the 19 …

Devolution - A real-time strategy game for the C64 and MS-DOS by Windigo Productions

Indie Retro News about 6 months ago

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MS-DOS utility collections

VCFed about 6 months ago

Any good ISO or torrents of miscellaneous DOS utilities/programs? Here are the ones I'm looking for: pkzip zoo telix list ... or any good directory lister I can find everything individually so I guess I could always make one. It's not too many items. I' …
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Review: Duke Nukem Collection 2 - A Trio Of Duke's Less Essential Adventures

Time Extension about 6 months ago

Smells like someone cut the fromage.Although Duke Nukem's history is filled with notable titles – the much-delayed Duke Nukem Forever being perhaps the most infamous of all – it's fair to say that his most beloved game is 1996's Duke Nukem 3D, an FPS c …
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Review: Duke Nukem Collection 1 - The King's First Three Adventures In One Place

Time Extension about 6 months ago

Shake it, baby.A few years before he was "all outta gum", Duke Nukem starred in a pair of MS-DOS action platformers which were distributed as shareware. Created by Apogee Software, Duke Nukem (1991) and Duke Nukem II (1993) were two rare beasts, at least o …

Remote file downloading examples for TOPS-10

VCFed about 6 months ago

All -- Back in this thread (DEC-10: connecting remote sites and usage in 20HAL) from a few years ago, I mentioned reverse engineering an old tool used during the development of MS-DOS 1 and the IBM-PC (described on my web site here). I've made much progre …
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New Releases • Free Release - Tristam Island by Hugo Labrannded just Updated Minimum Price to $0.00

Lemon64 about 6 months ago

https://hlabrande.itch.io/... Author:After crashing your plane at sea, you end up drifting to a small island, with not much to survive. You explore, and find out the island was inhabited, years ago. But why did the people leave? And why is th …

Need Help Creating MS DOS 6.22 Boot Disks

VCFed about 6 months ago

I have just purchased, a Tandy 1400LT and I would like to run DOS 6.22 on it since I would like to have the most up to date dos and I would like to play around with Zip Disks and other storage media that DOS 3.2 won't support. I know 6.22 cannot fit on one …