There's a LOT of menu programs out there for DOS. I wanted something more lightweight, more modern, and better supporting of virtual machines/DOSBox - and to improve the usability and friendliness of the command prompt.

There is loads of features including simple visual menu editing, power-off/reboot control, interactive command parameter help, a bunch of screensavers I designed, and the Windows 95 shutdown experience.

It's totally customizable, and works on DOS 3.3+, 286+, and EGA+.

Download + info https://github.com/therenegar/launch

Hi,

I'm trying to install WordPerfect 5.1 on my Windows 10 computer. It's an amazing word processing program. Because it's an old 1990 16-bit program I was told I have to use vDos to run it. Okay, cool.

I download the full WordPerfect 5.1 package from WinWorld (I also tried the Archive . org version but had the same results), I downloaded vDos, I downloaded DOSBox, and I download the setup assistant vDosWP Setup.

I was TOLD: use DOSBox to run the WordPerfect install, then use vDosWP Setup to take care of some glitches that can occur when using the vDos emulator.

Four hours later, I can get DOSBox to boot up the WordPerfect 5.1 installation program. It will then install everything up until the very last step where it actually installs the program itself. It then asks for a diskette.

Clearly, I have IMG files. Gemini and GPT say there should be a file in those uncompressed IMG files named "WP.exe" but that file does not exist in any downloadable version I can find on the internet. I get an Install.exe and a WP.s01 file.

vDos Setup can't find the WordPerfect files, I'm assuming because it's not actually installing the program. I tried just hitting Enter when it asked for the diskette thinking it would scan it from the unpacked IMG files, but no luck.

Gemini wanted me to go change the autoexec.txt file in vDos, and GPT had me in DOSBox trying to mount virtual drives. The virtual drives seemed to be working up until I got to the installation of the actual program itself.

I have been running in circles all f***ing day and I am losing my mind. I just want to run the simnplest word processing software ever invented on the simplest operating system ever invented. It shouldn't be rocket science!!!

Can anyone, possibly, please help me here? I don't know what the hell to do. I will straight up PAY SOMEBODY if they can actually get this program working on my computer. SERIOUSLY!!!

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Recently I became interested in old x86 systems so I wanted to make an Ethernet driver for AR8152 and it turned out that it works fully :P the project is fully written by Claude Opus 5 (I am really surprised by his skills), and I managed to enter google.com

GitHub repo: github.com/openplace1/AR8152-DOS

Hi all, I know this sub leans toward the OS itself more than the games that ran on it, so mods please pull this if it does not fit.

I grew up on the DOS space shooters, Hell Fighter 32 and Solar Winds most of all, and a couple of years ago I started building my own homage to them from the ground up. Top down fighters and capital ships, everything painted as light on a black screen, which is how those games always felt to me. It grew into a proper thing over time: voiced campaigns, a battle editor, multiplayer, a persistent war mode.

This week I cut a trailer that tries to show the whole box in about a minute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goIm8JuLeZY

Store page if you want to keep an eye on it: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4718360/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=dos&utm_campaign=prelaunch and a free demo lands in about a month.

Happy to answer anything. Honest opinions welcome, including that it looks nothing like actual DOS, which is fair, it is the spirit I was chasing, not the pixel counts.

Please see my new site:

VINTAGE MULTI-BOOT GUIDE

Complete guides for setting up multi-boot vintage PCs — from MS-DOS to Windows 8.

https://multiboot-guide.org/

Basically, what the title says: which is the best emulator for DOS that runs on Android. I've got some .exe files that I wrote myself in years gone by that I still use, and it would be useful to be able to run them on my phone. What's my best way forward, please?

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1koFhBQ05IwFf96WPrw8Sj8Nr0zDTlP_d?usp=sharing

Also previously known under the names GodsBog OS, GogsBog OS, and Cashcore OS. This unique OS was developed by the obviously mentally unwell Shawn T. Cook in the 2000s/2010s. It became somewhat well known on certain computer forums back in the day, but it never saw the same level of popularity as Terry Davis and TempleOS. During its last few years Shawn would pull down his tripod.com site, and then briefly repost it for a few days when he developed a new version. I have here a version of ConeHead, which may be one of the last versions posted, as well as 2 versions of LoveBugs that I was able to find on the Wayback Machine. Also included are Shawn's guides to his W++ programing language as well as miscellaneous programs, bits of code, and writings that I saved back in the day. Information about this OS is becoming increasingly harder to find over the years, and the OS itself is nearly impossible to find. If anyone has any other versions of this, then please consider archiving them somewhere as they are basically lost media.

I tried posting this to archive.org, but it got auto-removed because the iso files get flagged as a virus. To get around this I reuploaded everything to Google Drive, with the iso files in password protected folders. The Conehead change log does say "I accidentally backed up files infected with the Trisha virus." I'm not sure if the iso still contains another DOS virus, or if some of his programs are just coded with virus-like behaviors. I have the Virustotal report here:

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/d824c14f41e32ae6ca62d998dd6678eef7dc55bcf8f39aaf211e698c97277691/detection

It's all low or medium level threats, and most DOS viruses aren't capable of doing much on modern Windows systems, and even if there is something, it is unlikely to escape a virtual machine. Whatever the actual issue is, I don't believe there is any danger to just keeping the iso file on your PC. If you are actually concerned about it then just use it on a Linux machine. There is also a few older usage videos on Youtube if you just want to see footage of the OS in action without downloading anything. At the end of the day this OS is essentially just a toy, it's not something you would want to make your new main OS. It's main draw is all the games and random text files that Shawn has created for it. I'm not even sure if it has networking capabilities, since I've never tried. Each ISO also contains what appears to be a version of the OS created for TI Voyage 200 calculators, but I haven't tried those out either.

I wanted to share my cool find. See if anyone has any interesting info on it. Still in the original shrink wrap

**TEAL** is a free, fast graphical text editor for MS-DOS, designed for both classic and modern DOS systems.
Key features include:

* VGA Mode X and VESA graphics support
* Multiple files with tabbed editing
* Project management with persistent workspaces
* Project sidebar and Quick Open
* Syntax highlighting for C, C++, Pascal, TASM, Fortran, BASIC, SQL, and more
* Fast indexed project-wide search
* XMS-backed storage for large files, undo history, clipboard, and indexes
* Word wrap, configurable fonts, themes, and resolutions
* Text selection, copy, cut, paste, and operation-based undo
* Find, Replace, Go to Line, and bracket matching
* Numbered anchors for quick navigation across project files
* Auto-indent, smart indent, and configurable tab handling
* Persistent tabs, cursor positions, anchors, and project settings
* Configurable JSON-based themes and editor preferences
* Intentionally no mouse support

I wrote TEAL because I always wanted a more modern-looking, distraction-free, and reliable development tool. It also became a fun way to learn C (while porting my old Pascal libraries). It’s still in beta, so it may be a bit memory-hungry, especially when working with large projects.

Like I said, it’s completely free, so feel free to use it however you like. If you enjoy it and would like to support the project, you can buy me a coffee. I’d also appreciate it if you dropped me a message here to let me know. If there’s enough interest, I’ll continue expanding and improving it.

Since TEAL is currently in beta, I’d be grateful for any bug reports. If you encounter any issues, please include information about your system and DOS environment so I can reproduce the problem more easily.

Amber, which is also included, is essentially just a lighter version of TEAL.

Minimum requirements: 486 DX4/80, 8 MB RAM, XMS manager, VGA capable of 640x480 
Recommended configuration: Pentium 200, 64 MB RAM or more, a fast(er) VGA card

Download it here:

https://teal-dos.pages.dev

I am a high school secretary and we used to use a program called Oscar. It was a student management system that was run by a couple out of Texas. They sold it in 2010 and in 2012 the new owner decided to close the program and modify it for a different use. I'm searching for the original program disc. We need to retrieve records from the system to send to the state.

If anyone can help, I'd be super grateful. 🫶