Last summer we took a look at FreeDOS as part of the Daily Drivers series, and found a faster and more complete successor to the DOS of old. The sojourn into the 16-bit OS wasn’t perfect though, as we ...

Back to the x86 Past: As PC hardware becomes prohibitively expensive for many users, modders are increasingly turning to retro computing and related projects. One developer recently set out to build a ...

The Freedos operating system is now in version 1.4. A good two years after the last release, there is again a larger update for the free dos, with which various ancient PCs, but also new computers can ...

The FreeDOS Project has released version 1.4 of its fully open source DOS-compatible OS – but you'll need a BIOS for bare metal. This release follows a little over three years after FreeDOS 1.3, which ...

FreeDOS is an open source operating system designed to let you run DOS programs without installing an operating system that Microsoft abandoned decades ago. Unlike some other open source alternatives ...

We’re used to updating Windows, macOS, and Linux systems at least once a month (and usually more), but people with ancient DOS-based PCs still get to join in the fun every once in a while. Over the ...

I try to update my FreeDOS 1.3 new installation with the freedos online repository update tool fdnpkg. I just start the tool with command fdnpkg checkupdates The tool starts to download the first ...

The first PC gaming emulator has arrived on iOS, with classic games now playable via UTM SE on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Vision Pro while avoiding the JIT ban. UTM SE, by Turing Software, is a "retro PC ...

This past June 29 marked the 30th anniversary of FreeDOS, the text-based operating system by American developer Jim Hall that carries on the tradition of the classic and iconic MS-DOS. In fact, ...

Prompt Forever: FreeDOS is a free operating system designed to be a competent replacement for MS-DOS and other prompt-based operating systems. The project still has to achieve perfect compatibility ...

The first version of FreeDOS was released on September 16 of 1994, following Microsoft’s decision to cease development on MS-DOS in favor of Windows. This version 0.01 was still an Alpha release, with ...

How was DOS part of the PC revolution? Is DOS still around? What did Bill write a long time ago? Remember the DOS prompt? DOS stands for disk operating system. The latest announcement is a blast from ...