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DOjS is a JavaScript programming environment for systems running MS-DOS
- rizky05 4y ago[dead]
- raverbashing 4y agoHah I love this. It's a quaint blend of modern and old DJGPP and Allegro really gave DOS powers it didn't have Good times but I certainly enjoy the convenience of modern OSs
- anthk 4y agoNow Win 3.11 can be run on a GIT built FreeDOS. If anyone wrote some Win 3.11 replacement for DOS by reusing some Wine code, (and Calmira Desktop on top) it would be great for legacy 386 machines.
- pshirshov 4y agoIt's not like we have _that_ many 386 machines. Like 80% of the mobos around got some traces damaged because of battery leaks. Capacitors in ancient AT power supplies explode out of blue, etc, etc.
- HeckFeck 4y agoPerhaps someday soon with FPGAs we will have any CPU we want, whenever we want. Could have fun there.
- pshirshov 4y agoIt's not just about CPUs, but also about peripherals and multiple quirks. I wonder who might have enough resources to re-implement a dos-era machine with modern components without any potential commercial applications. Simpler projects (e.g. Commanderx16) weren't successful so far.
- zozbot234 4y agoThese machines exist, they're common in industrial applications and also used by retro gamers. They're basically a i586-based PC in modern SoC form. Of course if you want to run literally anything that's more modern and not specific to old x86, current hardware is way better.
- pjmlp 4y ago> DOS based Windows (like 95, 98, ME) Those Windows versions were a proper OS as well, MS-DOS run inside a virtual DOS box or rebooting into it. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20071224-00/?p=24063 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20071224-00/?p=24...
- KRAKRISMOTT 4y agoDoes Windows 10 still come with DOS compatibility?
- Dalewyn 4y agoWindows NT has absolutely nothing to do with MS-DOS.[1] This was a rather sore point back in the days of Windows NT 3.1 and NT 4.0, when a lot of software was still written for DOS and simply couldn't execute on NT. All 32-bit versions of Windows NT up through Windows 10 have NTVDM (NT Virtual DOS Machine), which as the name suggests is a virtual machine which virtualized DOS.[2] However, this "compatibility" afforded by NTVDM still failed in most practical situations because most DOS programs were written with the assumption of direct hardware access being available. NTVDM's purpose was instead to facilitate running 16-bit software originally written for the likes of Windows 3.1 and early days of Windows 9x. All 64-bit versions of Windows NT do not incorporate NTVDM due to hardware limitations and consequently cannot execute any 16-bit programs, including software for DOS. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_DOS_machine#Windows_NTVDM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_DOS_machine#Windows_NT...
- stuaxo 4y agoSomeone has recomliled NTVDM for 64 bit, based on the leaker Windows sources. This works because NTVDM has emulatipn, based on SoftPC built into it - NTVDM was available on non PC NT versions.
- anthk 4y agoIf you want a boost for DOS' compatibility under Windows XP, borrow the NTVDM DLL from ReactOS to perfectly play, for instance, Monkey Island.
- quickthrower2 4y ago> DOjS is pronounces like doge, but ending with an "s". Doge is pronounced Dough + Je(french). I have no idea how you then make an s sound after that without it sounding quite odd!
- weikju 4y agoI read that more as "Doze", like the ol' derogatory "Windoze"
- codetrotter 4y agoProbably the same way you’d pluralize doge.
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- networked 4y agoLoveDOS was a similar project with Lua: https://github.com/rxi/lovedos https://github.com/rxi/lovedos. It is now archived.
- johnmc21 4y ago[dead]
- stjo 4y agoIs that a reply to the wrong thread or am I missing something?
- joshuaissac 4y agoYes, it seems like it was meant to be a reply to a comment in the Facebook Meta verification thread.
- HeckFeck 4y agoRetroactive programming; where whether we could always trumps whether we should. And who will question the unholy offspring? It is equal parts glorious and terrifying.
- mabbo 4y agoThe number of systems still running DOS is small, but shockingly stable. I worked at a book store on my university campus in 2011 and the entire inventory management system was on a DOS system, I believe running on a VM (but possibly not...).
- giancarlostoro 4y agoMaybe it was on a FreeDOS VM, I cant remember the name but I could of sworn there was a software that also simulated DOS and ran as a regular windows program. Edit: DOSbox apparently
- tenebrisalietum 4y agoI bet there is a lot of DOS driving menu/kiosk displays, POS systems, and machine control things that just simply never needed to be upgraded.
- peefy 4y ago[dead]
- ElfinTrousers 4y agoTechnically speaking this is kind of cool...but why spend all this time and energy on writing dev tools for an OS that's decades out of date?