What about DOS?
Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 8:38 pm
About DOS
Most of our everyday computer systems operate with x86 compatible cpu's, regardless to what was written on it outside.
Some old and useful emulators can only be made to work with a DOS operating system.
There is DosBox of course, doing a very good job on faster cpu's, lets say a dual core 2GHz system or better.
When it comes to slower machines or more demanding tasks of the emulated Mac, a native DOS is very much preferable.
DRDOS is still available from ftp://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/OpenDOS/DR-DOS.702/.
So I wonder if DOS could be set up on recent computers.
One way might be to create a fat32 partition for DOS. A partitioning software like GParted and a boot loader
like GRUB would be needed.
GParted is available here for free: http://www.chip.de/downloads/GParted-Li ... 60627.html
GRUB is available with e.g. Suse Linux or GRUB for Windows: http://www.heise.de/software/download/s ... disk/55737
Another way might be to run the whole thing from an SD drive e.g. DOS with Fusion and VMac.
A formatting utility, writing the system files to the SD would be needed.
HPUSBFW_v2.2.3.exe to do this is available here: http://www.chip.de/downloads/HP-USB-Dis ... 18669.html
The system files usbdos.zip are here: http://www.chip.de/downloads/USB-DOS_36233249.html
What do you think?
Is anybody here still using DOS for some reasons?
Most of our everyday computer systems operate with x86 compatible cpu's, regardless to what was written on it outside.
Some old and useful emulators can only be made to work with a DOS operating system.
There is DosBox of course, doing a very good job on faster cpu's, lets say a dual core 2GHz system or better.
When it comes to slower machines or more demanding tasks of the emulated Mac, a native DOS is very much preferable.
DRDOS is still available from ftp://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/OpenDOS/DR-DOS.702/.
So I wonder if DOS could be set up on recent computers.
One way might be to create a fat32 partition for DOS. A partitioning software like GParted and a boot loader
like GRUB would be needed.
GParted is available here for free: http://www.chip.de/downloads/GParted-Li ... 60627.html
GRUB is available with e.g. Suse Linux or GRUB for Windows: http://www.heise.de/software/download/s ... disk/55737
Another way might be to run the whole thing from an SD drive e.g. DOS with Fusion and VMac.
A formatting utility, writing the system files to the SD would be needed.
HPUSBFW_v2.2.3.exe to do this is available here: http://www.chip.de/downloads/HP-USB-Dis ... 18669.html
The system files usbdos.zip are here: http://www.chip.de/downloads/USB-DOS_36233249.html
What do you think?
Is anybody here still using DOS for some reasons?