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DesertFOX<p>I ran into a few issues with Windows 2.x and later versions of MS-DOS, so I figured I should simply install an older version of MS-DOS. Version 3.31 seemed appropriate, because it supports harddisks larger than 32MB.</p><p>Easier said than done, because - as a surprise to me - this version of DOS apparently didn't even have a setup program. You have to do everything yourself: FDISK, FORMAT, SYS,... you even have to copy COMMAND.COM from A: to C: by hand. Simpler times!</p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/MSDOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MSDOS</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Commandline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Commandline</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/86Box" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>86Box</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Emulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Emulation</span></a></p>
Rees<p><strong>PicoGUS - The $50 / €65 / £58 Sound Card That Only Does Everything</strong></p> <p><a href="https://makertube.net/videos/watch/7d34c5d1-5b94-40e9-bbad-69c11df95792" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">makertube.net/videos/watch/7d3</span><span class="invisible">4c5d1-5b94-40e9-bbad-69c11df95792</span></a></p>
FozzTexx<p>Is there a way in <a href="https://mastodon.fozztexx.com/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> to mount a DOS disk that was compressed with DoubleSpace? The 40MB hard drive that was in my Toshiba T5200 was compressed that way and I was able to ddrescue it back in November, but all I found on the DOS partition was a great big 39.9MB file called DBLSPACE.000.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.fozztexx.com/tags/MSDOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MSDOS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.fozztexx.com/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.fozztexx.com/tags/VintageComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VintageComputing</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.fozztexx.com/@fozztexx/113540003118759822" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.fozztexx.com/@fozztex</span><span class="invisible">x/113540003118759822</span></a></p>
Mark Gardner<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@climagic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>climagic</span></a></span> I credit <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/AmigaDOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmigaDOS</span></a> with easing my way into <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Unix</span></a> (and then <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a>) <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/shell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>shell</span></a> and forever tainting my view of the more-limited <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/MSDOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MSDOS</span></a>.</p>
Till Kamppeter<p>This week was an amazing release week: Not only <a href="https://ubuntu.social/tags/Ubuntu" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ubuntu</span></a> 24.04 LTS, but also <a href="https://ubuntu.social/tags/Fedora" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Fedora</span></a> 40 and ...</p><p>... the source code of MS-DOS 4.0:</p><p><a href="https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2024/04/25/open-sourcing-ms-dos-4-0/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opens</span><span class="invisible">ource/2024/04/25/open-sourcing-ms-dos-4-0/</span></a></p><p>Now you can learn about the DoS (Denial of Service) attack your PC got right from the factory, before those attacks came from the internet ...</p><p><a href="https://ubuntu.social/tags/DOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DOS</span></a> <a href="https://ubuntu.social/tags/MSDOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MSDOS</span></a> <a href="https://ubuntu.social/tags/PC" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PC</span></a> <a href="https://ubuntu.social/tags/XT" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>XT</span></a> <a href="https://ubuntu.social/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Microsoft</span></a></p>
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