DOS is a Disk Operating System, that means it's an OS that uses a disk. Operating systems for IBM PCs since the early 1980s were called DOS. DOS consists of the command prompt, mostly command.com and two kernelfiles. That's a basic DOS system. DOS was a mainstream OS until Windows 95 (which also uses DOS, btw) threw it off the market.

First off, now that the development build of MAME is windows based, I would expect mamew to outperform mamed in a DOS box under Windoze. So the only gain would be under pure DOS. I tried running DOS MAME under DOS about a year ago. I couldn't get the drivers for my sound card set up under DOS so I had to run without sound. Without sound, DOS MAME was at most frameskip 1 faster than mamew without sound, if that much.

Well, firstly we are developing a Windows user interface. This will be Win-32, i.e. it will run under Windows 95 and Windows NT. But since the compiler is a non-graphical application, and the DOS interface runs quite happily under all flavours of Windows already, it has not been as high a priority as making sure that the basic functionality is top-notch. In other words, we believe an excellent compiler with a DOS front-end is better than an average compiler with a Windows front end.

Short for Denial of Service attack, a type of attack on a network that is designed to bring the network to its knees by flooding it with useless traffic. Many DoS attacks, such as the Ping of Death and Teardrop attacks, exploit limitations in the TCP/IP protocols. For all known DoS attacks, there are software fixes that system administrators can install to limit the damage caused by the attacks. But, like viruses, new DoS attacks are constantly being dreamed up by hackers.

First, you need a computer which is IBM compatible. The computer should have 640 KB of RAM or even more :)) (in some cases it will work with fewer RAM, too, but I would use more). Then, you need a floppy drive, a harddisk or something simular. It would be great to have a keyboard or a mouse and if you want to see something you might need a monitor... but that's all. For those who always were happy with Windows it might be annoying to type a lot at the command prompt.

If you don't have a clue about DOS, I advise you to read some sites with the DOS basics, e.g. http://www.computerhope.com/msdos.htm.

First of all, you need a DOS compatible modem or ISDN card. I advise to use the Arachne browser, a great DOS webbrowser with PacketDriver and dialer. It's not difficult to set it up.

A list of good DOS websites can be found at the DOSNET netring: http://www.ringsurf.com/netring?ring=dosnet;action=list.

If you like DOS and want to discuss your problems or the experiences you made, then sign up to the OpenDOS mailing list at mailto:opendos@delorie.com (to subscribe, send an e-mail to listserv@delorie.com with the text add opendos or add opendos-digest in the body. If you subscribe to opendos-digest, you'll get all e-mails every sunday in a digest form). If you can program, make a few free programs for the FreeDOS project or help people with their problems.

Sure, it is. You need a program like taskmgr.exe in DR-DOS 7.03, but a tool like that clutters your memory like nothing else... Another very good and well-known tool is DesqView, look at http://www.chsoft.com/dv.html and you will know much more about it.

Yes, there is. Lineo sells licenses in big packages, but if you only want to buy a single license you can get it at http://www.blands.co.uk, at Caldera (only version 7.02) or - if you live in or near Germany you can purchase it at http://www.linuxland.de.

I found an outdated (March 14, 1997) OpenDOS FAQ at http://www.delorie.com/opendos/faq/. If you know any other DR-DOS/OpenDOS FAQ, please contact me <cfuchs@n-net.org>. PTS DOS is a russian DOS, written in assembler. It's really fast. It comes on two floppy disks, one with the system and the utilities, the other one with Arachne as webbrowser. It claims to be MS-DOS compatible, but it's a bit strange in configuration and memory management but it is still developed. At http://phystechsoft.

Yes, users have reported success with DOS-based Quicken through version 8 (most recent DOS Quicken version). Recent versions may require more memory than is available under the system manager, but it's easy enough to exit the system manager and run Quicken directly from the DOS prompt, or run it in a separate Software Carousel work area. The "disable filer" trick may allow you to squeeze even the latest Quicken in under the system manager.

First, start up SmartDrive to speed things up. Next, run WINNT from the I386 folder. Setup should launch, warn you if you don't have SmartDrive loaded, copy the cd to a temporarily to your hard disk and reboot your computer. A more detailed guide.

DOS was the original platform built by Microsoft. Unlike Windows, there was no user interface as you see now, it was all command line driven (with the exception of the built in editor/debugger). DOS Mode is basically DOS inside Windows itself, though the DOS you run inside Windows is not capable of nearly half the things you can do in "real DOS" (i.e. outside Windows).

Windows XP does not have pure DOS mode, the only two ways are to execute "CMD"(preferred) or "COMMAND" from the run dialog box. If you want the real pure one, you can boot up from a DOS/Win95/98/ME boot disk or create one using Windows XP itself (insert a diskette, right click the drive in My Computer, Format, check Make System Disk) or you can install 2 OS's (like Windows 95/98/ME, which allows you to access pure DOS).

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You just need to copy a himem.sys from a Windows 9x/ME system to your DOS system and load it before your emm386 (e.g.: add DEVICE=C:\DRDOS\HIMEM.SYS

Florian Xaver postet a list of intersting DOS network links to the FreeDOS mailing list: http://www.freedos.org/freedos/news/technote/157.html. Thanks a lot!

Sure, you can. Create a primary partiton BEFORE your Windows partition (e.g. with PartitionMagic) and get a boot manager (I use the german tool 'Bootmanager', you can get a free trial version at http://www.bootmanager-pro.de).

You have to change the country-settings in config.sys (add 21000 to the country code): COUNTRY=21049,437,c:\drdos\country.sys This will switch the currency from "DM" to "EUR" and the format of the date from "dd.mm.yyyy" to the new format defined in DIN EN 28601 (ISO 8601) "yyyy-mm-dd". This will also work for the other countries in the European Union which take part in the currency union and which are supported by DR-DOS: Simply add 21000 to the country code in config.

I have a NetWare 5.1 server and I need to create a multiple config boot. With MS-DOS, it was as simple as using the following structure in CONFIG.SYS. [Menu] Menuitem=BootServ, Boot Server Menuitem=BootWork, Boot Workstation Menudefault=BootServ, 10 [BootServ] [BootWork] Files=60 Buffers=20 Device=c:\CDROMDRV.SYS /D:CD001 Then AUTOEXEC.BAT looked like this. Prompt $P$G Goto %config% :BootServ cd\nwserver server goto END :BootWork mscdex /d:CD001 goto END :END Here is a sample CONFIG.

The patch utility for DOS can be found on ftp.lantz.com in /tnos/misc or the mirror site of ftp.mwmicro.com in /mirrors/tnos/misc.

Only games labeled as DOS games can be run under DOS. Using our advanced search feature, you can search for games that are designed to run under DOS. The traditional DOS shell was removed in Windows XP. So in order to play DOS games in Windows XP, you need to apply the following trick: First, make sure you download the latest VDMSound from one of the sites below: telia.dl.sourceforge.net or unc.dl.sourceforge.net You may also want to then apply "Update 1" for VDMSound 2.0.

Sorry, I can't produce a DOS version. If you want something similar to a DOS version, try the SDL version which can be faster depending on the machine and hardware.

You can use Peter Watson's MUG! program on your IIgs to transfer files via MS-DOS Iomega Zip disks. MUG! will let you read Zip disks on a IIgs equipped with a Zip drive and a SCSI interface. MUG is an NDA; so, it can be installed like other NDA's-- e.g. having the main MUG! file (probably MUG.1.01) in the System/Desk.Accs/ folder when booting. For easy use, start with a regular ProDOS Zip disk in your IIgs Zip Drive. Start a standard IIgs desktop program that does not test inserted disks.

The PBOOT utility is used in conjunction with the emBoot Boot Image Editor program to create Pre-OS boot image files. At the end of a preboot or remote boot process, PBOOT invokes a very soft reset and passes control from the boot image file back to the local hard drive. The PBOOT utility is always the last command executed in the autoexec.bat file in Pre-OS boot files. FREEMEM releases the memory used by the boot image file after the client PC has booted.