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FreeDOS is good, but it's a different flavor of DOS and not everything directly lines up. It's certainly where I'd start if I needed a DOS, but I'm sure there a
by jayofdoom 2y ago
FreeDOS is good, but it's a different flavor of DOS and not everything directly lines up. It's certainly where I'd start if I needed a DOS, but I'm sure there are things it won't work with.
- snvzz 2y agoThere is Svardos as well, with EDR-DOS kernel, enhanced DR-DOS. That DOS was already the better one back then.
- lproven 2y agoI've been playing with it recently. https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/23/svardos_drdos_reborn/ https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/23/svardos_drdos_reborn/ It's a lot comfier and more familiar in some ways than FreeDOS, and I have a little hobby project based on it. https://github.com/lproven/usb-dos https://github.com/lproven/usb-dos
- snvzz 2y agoIt's lovely, and can run Win 3.1 in 386 mode. I am hopeful Freedos will also get there. I believe it is there already with out of tree work.
- lproven 2y agoI believe so, yes. I tried WfWg 3.11 but on reflection it was a bad version to try, what with 32-bit file access and so on. It didn't start successfully. But saying that, I ran and supported Windows 2.01, 3.0 and 3.1 in production. If I never seen any of them running again I will not be sorry. I have zero nostalgia for them, or indeed, for CP/M either.