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 (Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Genesis, Arcade, etc)
Virtualization
Oldschool demos (intros, demos, megademos, democomp-related stuff)
Art (ASCII, ANSI, pixel, etc)
Oldschool music (MODs etc, Commodore SIDs, 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, emulation, Glances, loved, oldschool, operating systems, payware, platforms, 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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Oldschool demos

2005-11-30

dead, demos, DOS, entertainment, oldschool, oldschool topics, projects

Entertainment > Movies, Music > Oldschool >

A demo is an audio-visual arrangement played on a computer in software.

This particular topic is regarding the early days, now considered to be "oldschool" on legacy computer platforms.

HP 200LX

2000-09-01

abandoned, computers, dead, DOS, hardware, oldschool, owned, portable computing, projects, proprietary hardware, quiet computing, things, todo

Whoops, I broke my HP 200LX.. I'll have to get it repaired before I can re-open this project.

Portable computing, Quiet computing > Oldschool >

(on Wikipedia)
(home page, archive)

An early-1990s

A portable computer.

Clamshell, Full QWERTY-keyboard with a keypad and macro keys, authentic Intel 8086 hardware, true DOS, a task-switching application, and a number of GUI applications and productivity software. It is truly a portable computer.

Abandoned -- HP decided to switch to the Windows CE-supporting palmtops in their Jordana-series of palmtops, even though the 200LX was still a moneymaking operation.

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