First post, by DaveDDS
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Hi, being somewhat anal about playing with old stuff, one of my as I get a "round tuit" projects has been to organize the many bootable editions of DOS I have into a single CD/DVD that I can boot on any of my systems, or run the ON-CD emulation to run any of these DOS editions (with networking support)
It's mostly coming together and working - so today I started to document it a bit (always good to remember what exactly you set up) - if anyone else is interested in this, let me know and I'll clean it up and make it available.
DOS boot CDThis CD contains a nunber of different editions of DOS.The CD is bootable, and can directly run most of the DOS editions, exceptfor: MsDos2.11, MsDos400 and PcDos0.90These are in formats the bootloader I use in .ISOs can't seem to handle.They do however boot under various emulators (see DosBox emulator below)or if you write to actual disks.Note that most systems will "override" drive A: if you boot from CD, someleave B: accessible, some don't. To write .IMGs to actuak disks from a CD-booted DOS, usual floppy writing tools may not work, use ImageDisk becauseIMD controls the floppy hardware directly (not through DOS/BIOS).These directories/files are included:IMG\DOS boot disk images (Raw sector dumps) - first "batch" setup to be "useful"DOS.IMG WorkinMsDos5(CD+extras)IMD.IMG ImageDisk(standalone)CALDERA.IMG CalderaOpenDOS7.01DRDOS.IMG DR-Dos6.0FREEDOS.IMG FreeDos?.?? > Most of theseMSDOS112.IMG MsDos1.12MSDOS211.IMG MsDos2.11 > are setupMSDOS331.IMG MsDos3.31 > to be "useful"MSDOS400.IMG MsDos4.00MSDOS500.IMG MsDos5.00 > Creating RamDiskMSDOS622.IMG MsDos6.22 > for working storageWIN98.IMG MsDosWi98WINME.IMG MsDosWiMEPCDOS090.IMG PcDos0.90(prerelease)PCDOS100.IMG PcDos1.00PCDOS110.IMG PcDos1.10PCDOS210.IMG PcDos2.10 > and many tools/utilitiesPCDOS300.IMG PcDos3.00 > in .ZIP filesPCDOS330.IMG PcDos3.30 > use: ZEX A:<zipname>PCDOS71.IMG PcDos7.1 > to select/extractPTSDOS.IMG ParagonTechSys(Russian)PtsDos6.51DOS330.IMG MsDos3.30 \DOS401.IMG MsDos4.01 > These are more "original" MS distributionsDOS500.IMG MsDos5.00 > which were downloaded from:DOS600.IMG MsDos6.00 > ALLBOOTDISKS.COMDOS622.IMG MsDos6.22 /IMD\ImageDisk: Read/write pretty much ANY diskette the PC FDC can handle.IMD.TXT ImageDisk documentationIMD.COM ImageDisk programIMD.HLP Interactive help file for ""IMDA.COM ImageDisk .IMD analyzer (report details)IMDCMT.BAT Create empty .IMD with preset commandIMDEDT.BAT Edit command in .IMDIMDU.COM ImageDisk Utility perform many useful functions with .IMDsIMDV.COM View .IMD contentTESTFDC.COM Test PC FDC to determine capabilitiesHELP.TXT Common help questiong and answersANY2IMD.COM Convert ANY diskette image format to .IMDBIN2IMD.COM Convert BINARY dump images to .IMDDMK2IMD.COM Convery .DMK images to .IMDTD02IMD.COM Convert TeleDisk to .IMD
IMG2IMD.COM Automate BON2IMD for common DOS .IMG formatsDOSBOX\DosBox can actually boot DOS images!This is a minimal edition of DosBox which presents a menu of availableimages, allowing you to select and boot one under Windows, and also toenable a virtual NE2000 NIC - just go here and run DOSBOX.DOSBOX.EXE DosBox programDOSBOX.INI "" init fileBOOTIMG.COM Prompt for and boot .IMGBOOTIMG.DAT "" init fileSETNIC.COM Prompt for and setup virtual NIC (network)MSVCP71.DLL <= LibrariesMSVCR71.DLL <= neededSDL.DLL <= bySDL_NET.DLL <= DosBoxTOOLS\Some useful DOS tools for working with imagesFDI.COM FloppyDiskImage .IMG manipulatorXDISK.COM Read/Write .IMG directly to floppyEDT.EXE My text editorFVT.COM FileViewTextFVB.COM FileViewBinaryFCT.COM FileCompareTextFCB.COM FileCompareBinaryUNZIP.EXE Extract file(s) from .ZIPsYou can use FDI to extract any files from the .IMGsand UNZIP to extract more tools/utils from .ZIPs contained therein!
PS: As far as I have been able to determine, all of these editions have been released for free use.
Of course - any suggestions/additions are welcome.
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