Working on an old laptop needed access to a CDROM from DOS, what to do?
I have restoried an old laptop to the glory of DOS and Windows 3.1. Loading DOS from Floppy was not too hard but I found soon after that the internal CDROM was not working avter installing the generic MITSUMI cdrom drivers. I have alot of software for old machines on CDROM and usefuleness is limited for this machine with no [read more]
Back in 1991 I used a program called PKLite to compress executable files. Memory and disk space was at a premiuim back then and programs were required to be small and fast.PKLite was one way to achieve that!Find it in Downloads or here:PKLITE [read more]
The game Maze Wars came out in 1992 for DOS. What is remarkable is that the game requires mouse controls to play. You have to have mouse.sys setup to control what is basically an early first person style polygonal game. Look for it in Downloads or here:Maze Wars [read more]
Circa 1985 we needed a simple way to archive and retrieve text based information. In 1985 for simple text retrieval something alot like the familiar card catalog did the trick. Here is 3 BY 5 index cards of the future.Fetures built in word processor, ,multiple file search, multiple windows and more.Available in downloads or here:3BY5 [read more]
The summary says it all. DOSSHELL from MS DOS 5 will run in MS DOS 6.22 and Free DOS.Dosshell is a great way to graphically manipulate files. Try it out, get it HERE [read more]
You know I already said I like FREE. Well if you wat to install DOS im VMware and do not have any DOS disks, consider FREEDOS.They even have a video of how to install FREEDOS in VMWare.I installed under VMWare server 1.08 and it works. Except if I launch it with EM386 support then it bugs out. But without that [read more]
Desktop2 - for those that need an interface for DOS.
The website says:DESKTOP is a graphical user interface for DOS, which ones used to be a commercial shell like MS-Windows™ 3.0 or GEOS™. However, due to the dominance of MS-Windows 95, we were forced to stop publishing the program, so it's free now…Yes indeed, we like free! This does work but it isn't incredibly easy to get dos apps you [read more]
If you are here chances are you already know about FDISK ..or else you wouldnt have DOS isntalled anyway.FDISK is used to setup a partition to accept DOS on a hard drive. Like many DOS commands FDISK has Command Line Switches that can be used with FDISK. On of these is very useful and used to re-create the master boot [read more]
If you are running a modern Windows based PC it is still possible to run true DOS. You will need either Microsoft Virtual PC or VMware Server to create the DOS session and of course some DOS diskettes. My experience says it is easier to get CDROM function in DOS with Virtual PC than it is [read more]
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