DOS

Oldschool Linux was to have been usable as a general-purpose light Linux distribution, with a focus on oldschool platform and operating system emulation/virtualization, demos, games, art and music.

Its target era was to be pre-Windows: DOS, Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari, etc. Software will be Linux-native where possible, but two-stage software will be examined .. such as emulating DOS to run a DOS program.

Platform Emulation (DOS: DOSBox and DOSEMU, other platforms like Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari)
Console Platform Emulation (NES, Sega Genesis, Arcade, etc)
Virtualization
Demos (intros, demos, megademos, democomp-related stuff)
Art (ASCII, ANSI, pixel, etc)
Music (MODs etc, c64 SID, and more)
Games (Free, not abandonware - either platform-specific, console or arcade games)
1. This is a secondary interest.

It was to be a consumer distribution, and not a producer distribution. To be distributed with media viewers/players as well as actual content. It was to be a branch off of the Unity Linux base. It never made it past the planning stages.

Oldschool-Windows and producer editions were far-future ideas.

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2006-04-22

abandoned, commandline software, dead, DOS, DOS software, Glances, loved, oldschool, operating systems, payware, projects, proprietary software, software

more coming later

Computers > Operating Systems, Oldschool >

(on Wikipedia)
(MS-DOS v1.25 and v2.0 Source Code)

This topic is primarily for MS-DOS 6.22, though I was particularly keen on 4DOS.

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DOS 6 - The Real Story

2006-04-22

DOS, HOWTO, writing

DOS >

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DOS networking and the internet

2006-04-04

dead, DOS, internet, networking, projects

DOS, Internet >

This topic is dead! It'll stay dead. Vanilla DOS and the internet just don't go well together. Linux with DOSEMU, a VMWare solution, or whatever, would allow a contemporary networking experience while still allowing DOS compatibility.

DOS and networking has some serious issues, namely the lack of memory it leaves. Some DOS-alternates help alleviate this though.

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(on Wikipedia)
https://sourceforge.net/projects/dosbox/
http://www.dosbox.com/

A DOS emulation program.

Absolutely essential for emulating DOS not just within Windows or a traditional Linux environment, but within ARM/Linux as well, for palmtops and phones.

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