DOS Games Discussion

J-Man · Member Joined: 10 Oct 2003 Posts: 22

FreeDOS works really well for almost all DOS games. If you have a pirate copy of MS-DOS, GET RID OF IT and get FreeDOS!!!

http://www.freedos.org

If a game that worked in MS-DOS does not work in FreeDOS, please let me know and I might be able to help you. (This should be very rare, however)

FreeDOS has been in development since 1994 and it is very mature and stable. It can even provide over 600 KB of free DOS conventional RAM!!!

If you need help in implementing FreeDOS, please let me know.

jmmijo · Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2003 8:00 pm Post subject:

Sure, this is good for sure Wink

However if you are like me and already own multiple copies of MS-DOS, you usually don't have to worry about it but then again you may have to install some memory management tools like QEMM as well, which I also own Happy

Unknown_K · Way too much free time Joined: 01 Oct 2002 Posts: 560

Anybody make a DOS yet that works with fat32 formatted drives larger then 2gb?

Splodginator · Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2003 2:52 am Post subject:

I saw this version called MS-DOS 7 (I think thats what it was called) that was supposedly free (It had installation disk images). I think it worked with FAT32 drives.

Unknown_K · Way too much free time Joined: 01 Oct 2002 Posts: 560

Thats a hack ripping out the dos that runs under windows 95 osr2, not a stand alone product.

J-Man · Member Joined: 10 Oct 2003 Posts: 22

FreeDOS can support FAT32!

jmmijo · Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2003 10:58 am Post subject:

@J-Man, is that native support for FAT32 or do you have to run a device driver via CONFIG.SYS or what ?!?

J-Man · Member Joined: 10 Oct 2003 Posts: 22

That's native support built in the kernel.

jmmijo · Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2003 11:36 am Post subject:

That feature alone may indeed make it worth a look, thanks Wink

J-Man · Member Joined: 10 Oct 2003 Posts: 22

Jmmijo, there are two versions of the FreeDOS kernel, one supports FAT32, the other one doesn't. Other than that, they are almost identical. Make sure you get the right one if you want FAT32 support.

I have finally finished the FreeDOS boot disk setup. Download it at:

http://www.geocities.com/axsclf/freedos.zip

Make sure you right-click and Save Target As... (don't do a normal left-click).

Extract it to its own directory and run SETUP.BAT.

J-Man · Member Joined: 10 Oct 2003 Posts: 22

I edited my last post to include most of what used to be on this post (thanks Dogbreath).

Dogbreath · Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2003 7:03 pm Post subject: Re: FreeDOS Disk Release

Oz · Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 12:18 pm Post subject:

err.... humm. can in install this on a drive/drive partition that has another Os on it? (eg i have windows ME on drive c:, i instal this over the top). would that work?

J-Man · Member Joined: 10 Oct 2003 Posts: 22

Go ahead and install FreeDOS on that C: partition. It will safely retain your data, install itself on that partition, and then you can boot FreeDOS from that C: partition. All except 5 of your files will be saved.

These 5 files will be deleted to make way for the FreeDOS installation:

IO.SYS
MSDOS.SYS
COMMAND.COM
CONFIG.SYS
AUTOEXEC.BAT

Everything else should be safe. When FreeDOS is finished installing, you can boot it up to your hard drive and run whatever DOS games or programs you have.

If you install FreeDOS over Windows ME (or other Windows), you won't be able to go back to Windows until you boot up with a startup disk and type SYS C: so make sure you have a startup disk handy just in case you ever want to go back to Windows.

jmmijo · Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 6:59 pm Post subject:

I d/l all the files from the site and I'll look at them in a little bit. I have to decide on what kind of box I want to install this onto, so many parts and so little time Shifty