Protesta Globale di mark katana: Free Dos torna il buon vecchio caro DOS per i pc più vecchi

sabato 1 settembre 2012

Free Dos torna il buon vecchio caro DOS per i pc più vecchi

FreeDOS is a free DOS-compatible operating system that can be used to play games, run legacy software, or support embedded systems. FreeDOS is basically like the old MS-DOS, but better! For example, unlike MS-DOS, FreeDOS lets you access FAT32 file systems and use large disk support (LBA).

Yes, FreeDOS is really free. It doesn't cost anything to download and run FreeDOS. Even better, FreeDOS is open source software; you can view and edit our source code. All FreeDOS programs are distributed under the GNU General Public License ("GNU GPL") or a similar open source license. Because we are open source software, anyone can contribute to it. Even if you don't write code, you can help out the FreeDOS Project by reporting bugs.

FreeDOS is a complete, free, DOS-compatible operating system. While we provide our own programs and utilities, you should be able to run any program that was intended for MS-DOS. You can even do networking! However, you may experience problems running Windows on FreeDOS. For example, Windows standard-mode works on FreeDOS, but 386-mode Windows for Workgroups 3.11 does not.

To install, simply download the FreeDOS 1.1 CD image. Write this to a blank CD, and boot your computer with it. The automated installer should walk you through the rest. If you need help, please read the FreeDOS Install HOWTO (this is for VirtualBox, but should apply to any PC.)

FreeDOS should run on any standard PC, although you will need at least an Intel ‘386 or better processor and a CDROM drive if you want to install FreeDOS using our standard CD image. 2MB or more memory recommended for best performance, and 40MB disk space. If you are new to DOS, we recommend you use a PC emulator such as VirtualBox to install and boot FreeDOS. You can find PC emulators for all computer platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac.) You can even run FreeDOS using a PC emulator written in Java, right in your web browser!

FreeDOS 1.1

FreeDOS is a complete operating system. If you choose to install this on your computer, you may overwrite the operating system you have now (for example, Windows.) If this is not what you intend, please stop now.
To use, download the CD image ("ISO" file) for the FreeDOS 1.1 distribution. You'll need to write this to CD before you can install from it. Boot the CD on your computer (or PC emulator) and follow the prompts to install. If you need help, please read the FreeDOS Install HOWTO (this is for VirtualBox, but should apply to any PC.)