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MSDOS is the new mobile OS from Microsoft Announcement: http://lumiaconversations.microsoft.com/2015/04/01/microsoft-launches-ms-dos-mobile/ http://lumiaconver
by maaaats 12y ago
MSDOS is the new mobile OS from Microsoft
Announcement: http://lumiaconversations.microsoft.com/2015/04/01/microsoft-launches-ms-dos-mobile/ http://lumiaconversations.microsoft.com/2015/04/01/microsoft...
Product page: http://www.microsoft.com/en/mobile/ms-dos/ http://www.microsoft.com/en/mobile/ms-dos/
Edit: Even an app http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/ms-dos-mobile/8573c4a8-b9df-4409-90a6-dad2dc0b6b26 http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/ms-dos-mobile/85...
Wow, the app is really well done. SPOILERS: Can cd into a programs folder, and launch programs like sms.exe, where I get a blue DOS-style window asking for input. Can use "phone <nr>" to call someone, send e-mails. If i launch "internet" it plays an old modem sound before launching the stock OS browser.
CDing into C:\GAMES\RPS and launching RPS.exe first gives you a question about using "PC Speaker" or "Sound Blaster", and then how many colors you would like. Then the game crashes with "Error! Not enough memory, RPS needs 641KB conventional memory (...)" and then a quote "---Cortana: That's odd, 640 K ought to be enough for anyone", haha. After that, it guides you through using mem and loadhigh to get the game to run. And of course, RPS is Rock-Paper-Scissors in 8-bit glory.
The camera is an ASCII-camera, using letters with only a few colors, or CGA mode. Here are two selfies I took http://imgur.com/a/deajM http://imgur.com/a/deajM
The command help gives all useable command: CD, CLS, COLOR, DATE, DIR, ECHO, EDIT (edit autoxec.bat for instance), EXIT, FORMAT, HELP, LOADHIGH, MEM, PATH, TIME, TYPE, VER.
- endgame 12y agoThat's beautiful, and probably an improvement on most smartphone OSes.
- dickvdbrink 12y agoHaha, love it this is a briljant joke! :)
- wz1000 12y agoI'd love to have something like that if it ran bash or even Powershell.
- creshal 12y agoAndroid has shells, and you can put arbitrary distributions in a chroot, if it's rooted.
- pimlottc 12y agoSET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 T2 Ah, the memories...
- raverbashing 12y agoOf course if it was on IRQ 12 half of the games wouldn't work (long story, and yes, due to another x86 quirk)
- sanoli 12y agoOh man, those IRQ nightmares! Please don't mention those extended memory settings or I will go into my basement to look for my MEMMAKER notes on how to (maybe) get a game going...
- sp332 12y agoJust boot one in your browser! https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games Yes these are real copies of MS-DOS games running in MS-DOS in a JS emulator in your browser. Some of them have crack screens, but some of them are running from magnetic maps of the disk, with original copy protection schemes intact.
- nickdude 12y agoI once accidentally set the same IRQ for my Serial mouse and modem...The modem would only respond to commands while moving the mouse...good times.
- TheLoneWolfling 12y agoElaborate on said quirk?
- noipv4 12y agodid you load himem.sys? how about emm386.exe? does your sound card have an OPL3 or the OPL4 MIDI chip? Does your trident VESA card on the ISA slot have 1MB VRAM? stacker, drivespace or doublespace? choices! I just bought me a Seagate medalist 1-Gigabyte hard drive. Should I make it a master or a slave on the ATA bus? Make sure the Turbo button is pressed, if Doom is slow to load!
- Aissen 12y agoAwesome! Would this have happened under Balmer ? Nadella is truly changing Microsoft into a "cool" company.
- mynameisvlad 12y agoYes, of course it would have. It's not like this required executive approval to do. It was probably some WP team that wanted to have a little fun.
- adolfojp 12y agoMost likely. Balmer was known for his shenanigans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-8IufkbuD0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-8IufkbuD0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-l1iGKvcog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-l1iGKvcog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2Zd3HYKCRE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2Zd3HYKCRE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgSJxZZfIA4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgSJxZZfIA4
- kenrick95 12y agocd games cd rps rps.exe and you'll find that it can't be run, but Cortana will guide you to "fix" it. After fixing it, Rock-Paper-Scissor game will run.
- Sharlin 12y agoApparently WIN works too.
- guinness74 12y agowolf3d -goobers If that works, I'm sold.
- yAnonymous 12y agoThe interface is a significant improvement compared to Windows 8.
- creshal 12y agoSo would be Microsoft Bob!
- Intermernet 12y agoDoes it do EDLIN and DEBUG ?
- pepijndevos 12y agoIs it a full DOS emulator that could run other games, or just a simple shell?
- ck2 12y agoNeeds BASIC or GWBASIC
- noipv4 12y agoneither, I want BASICA and QBASIC. Do you have the 5 1/4" floppy drive. Will it read the 1.2MB disks or just the 360KB disk?
- smacktoward 12y agoBut will it run Lotus 1-2-3? The saying was always "DOS isn't done until Lotus won't run..."
- xyjprc 12y agoHas anyone tried format c: ?
- arnorhs 12y agoTIL there are people on HN that use windows phone! :)