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It's a fake BIOS/DOS bootscreen to parody the startup of the original DOS demo (the c64 version of the demo does something similar). It says DOS3.3 as a joke,
by deater 3y ago
It's a fake BIOS/DOS bootscreen to parody the startup of the original DOS demo (the c64 version of the demo does something similar).
It says DOS3.3 as a joke, because Apple DOS3.3 was a real, long-running operating system for the Apple II that predates MSDOS.
The actual demo runs no operating system at all, it's a custom bootsector designed by qkumba that can load arbitrary tracks off of a raw Disk][ floppy and is much faster than DOS3.3 or ProDOS and also requires very little memory overhead.
- curtisblaine 3y agoThanks. I remember AppleDOS 3.3, and I remember it had no concept of directories (you had to use ProDOS for that, which didn't use the cd command anyway).