Collaborate Disseminate
For some reason, we never tire of stories highlighting critical infrastructure that’s running outdated software, and all the better if it’s running on outdated hardware. So when we learned that …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: December 8, 2024
It might seem like the days of MS-DOS were a lifetime ago because…well, they basically were. Version 6.22 of the venerable operating system, the last standalone release, came out back …read more Continue reading Running Stock MS-DOS on a Modern ThinkPad
Well, this came out of nowhere: Microsoft and IBM have open-sourced MS-DOS 4.0, a legacy command line OS the two worked on together over 40 years ago.
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We’re not 100% sure which phase of Microsoft’s “Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish” gameplan this represents, but just yesterday the Redmond software giant decided to grace us with the source code …read more Continue reading Microsoft Updates MS-DOS GitHub Repo to 4.0
Apple’s Vision Pro augmented reality goggles made a big splash in the news this week, and try as we might to resist the urge to dunk on them, early adopters …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: February 11, 2024
The memory map of the original 8086 computer with its base and extended memory made the original PC rather straightforward, but also posed countless issues for DOS-based applications as they …read more Continue reading Breaking Through The 1 MB Barrier In DOS With Unreal Mode And More
Oh, perfect — now our cars can BSOD. At least that’s how it looks from a forum post showing a Blue Screen of Death on a Ford Mustang Mach E, …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: January 7, 2024
For most people the phrases ‘MS-DOS’ and ‘video playback’ probably aren’t commonly associated, yet it was quite normal as those of us who were watching full-motion video with games like …read more Continue reading Video And Audio Playback On Low-End MS-DOS machines
The world once ran on hardcopy, and when the digital age started to bring new tools and ways of doing things, documents were ripe for change. Today, word processors and …read more Continue reading Wandering Through Old Word Processors Yields a Beast
It’s a piece of common knowledge, that MS-DOS wasn’t capable of multitasking. For that, the Microsoft-based PC user would have to wait for the 80386, and usable versions of Windows. …read more Continue reading Myth Tested: DOS Can’t Multitask