Linux is very good at running older software, but even the free and open-source operating system is stumped by the really ancient stuff developed for MS-DOS. Let’s go over how you can get ...

Last month, Microsoft released a modern remake of its classic MS-DOS Editor, bringing back a piece of computing history that first appeared in MS-DOS 5.0 back in 1991. The new open source tool, built ...

There's a huge resurgence of retro FM synth production across YouTube lately. Amiga, C64, PC all coming back to the zeitgeist, and I am here for it. Sidenote: I'm also pleased to see demoscene stuff ...

One of the other problems that I ran into when trying to make my DOS prompt behave more like my Unix systems was how to invoke my carefully crafted macros every time I opened a new DOS command window.

In Windows, users can run DOS programs along side Windows programs. Pressing Alt-Tab switches between all open DOS and Windows applications. DOS programs are usually run in a window so they can be ...

Windows 11 and Windows 10 ships with Windows PowerShell out of the box. Along with it, came the Command Prompt which was a successor to MS-DOS Command line. Often the presence of two command-line ...

On June 29, 2019, the FreeDOS Project turns 25 years old. That's a major milestone for any open-source software project! In honor of this anniversary, Jim Hall shares this look at how FreeDOS got ...

When one of only a handful of Windows servers that I manage dropped off my radar for a while, I wasn’t sure what to think. I had been running an application, for which this system was the server and ...