![]() ![]() ![]() So don't expect miracles, it's not as fully bugfixed as 7.03 (but of course has other additions since 7.03 doesn't support FAT32). Obviously that needs a 386 anyways.)ĮDIT: EDR-DOS is based upon buggy OpenDOS 7.01, which didn't even have all of Novell's fixes. (And you must forcibly use its EMM386 / DPMI all the time. ![]() You can still buy DR-DOS 7.03 online, but you're limited to 64 MB per task. > DESQview, GEOS, DR-DOS Task Manager and so on, and I do not trust 100%Īh, obscure stuff that mucked with undocumented lowlevel details. > I also hope to get some more interesting stuff running on top, such as And FAT32 didn't come until, what, Win95 OSR2 or whatever? In fact, PC-DOS and MS-DOS were still using the same code base (until '91 or so). That is the retrocomputing angle.īut FAT32 and LBA didn't exist in the '80s. > I find it more interesting, and more fun, to use the authentic Even if it doesn't literally support 100% (who does?), it's worth keeping for the 99% of other useful stuff that does still work. Since everything else is dead and buried, it seems unwise to dig through the trash to hope to find something that accidentally still works.įreeDOS works very well. > I know about FreeDOS, yes, but I am not a big fan. > and should perform essentially identical. > may I suggest FreeDOS for this effort, as FreeDOS may be distributed, It displays 2 full stops (periods) and then halts. However, I would like to use the latest version, 7.02.08, again with LBA and FAT32 support.īut I can't get it to boot. I have this working with DR-DOS 7.01 and ViewMax. So I am also building a version based on DR OpenDOS 7.01, which was FOSS and permits redistribution. I would welcome offers of offsite backups of this.īut I can't re-distribute this - IBM specifically does not permit this. I have made a boot disk image that works with VirtualBox. Only part of the OS is there - the boot files and a few utilities. It's available for free download from IBM as part of the Serverguide Scripting Toolkit. Note, not PC DOS 7.01, the Y2K-safe version. One is a bootable USB key with IBM PC DOS 7.1 and some old DOS wordprocessors and other tools, as a distraction-free writing environment. I am working in parallel on 2 projects, mainly for my own entertainment but also in the hope that at least one may be useful to others. Is, or has, anyone experimented with this? ![]()
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