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First post, by DosFreak

Posted on 2014-07-01, 10:24

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http://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/news/2014/06 … s-20-years-old/

On June 29, 1994, we announced an effort to create a completely free version of DOS, that everyone could use. That was the start of The FreeDOS Project, 20 years ago! Since then, we have advanced what DOS could do, adding new functionality and making DOS easier to use. And today in 2014, people continue to use FreeDOS to support embedded systems, to run business software, and to play classic DOS games!

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Reply 1 of 13, by Liqu1d82

Posted on 2014-09-24, 21:01

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Happy Birthday FreeDOS, and thanks for helping me in my DOS-ish build 😀

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Reply 2 of 13, by keropi

Posted on 2014-09-24, 21:03

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wow, 20 years... happy birtday then 😁

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Reply 3 of 13, by cdoublejj

Posted on 2014-09-25, 06:59

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can free dos truly compete with MSDOS?

Reply 4 of 13, by jwt27

Posted on 2014-09-25, 12:52

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Yes.

Reply 5 of 13, by Liqu1d82

Posted on 2014-09-25, 16:52

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Yes! 😉

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Reply 6 of 13, by cdoublejj

Posted on 2014-09-30, 12:56

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does it run all the same games and software!? (or most of them)

Reply 7 of 13, by leileilol

Posted on 2014-09-30, 13:39

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Can it run Windows 3.1?

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Reply 8 of 13, by jwt27

Posted on 2014-09-30, 21:23

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Yes.

No idea about Win3.1 TBH. Who even cares?

Reply 9 of 13, by laxdragon

Posted on 2014-10-02, 14:27

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FreeDOS is great. I keep a USB Boot stick around with FreeDOS because even today, some mobos and expansion cards still need to use DOS to update the firmware. I just needed to update the firmware of some Adaptec RAID cards fairly recently.

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Reply 10 of 13, by cdoublejj

Posted on 2014-10-04, 11:19

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WOW, very interesting.

Reply 11 of 13, by leileilol

Posted on 2014-10-04, 18:56

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I agree that WoW is very interesting, especially WoW64

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Reply 12 of 13, by musa

Posted on 2014-12-05, 14:29

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leileilol wrote:
Can it run Windows 3.1?

Yes but only in real mode.

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Reply 13 of 13, by valnar

Posted on 2014-12-05, 14:38

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Is this the year FreeDOS finally gets it right? 😵

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