20 Years of FreeDOS
On 29 June 1994 on the USENET group comp.os.msdos.apps a student of physics announcing to seek collaborators to create a free version of a system compatible with Microsoft DOS and used freely by anyone.
On 29 June 1994 on the USENET group comp.os.msdos.apps a student of physics announcing to seek collaborators to create a free version of DOS can be used freely by anyone.
The project idea was born in response to the announcement by Microsoft of the cessation of sales and technical support for MS-DOS. The system was named FreeDOS and initially intended as a free variant of MS-DOS from Microsoft. Since then the system has become very advanced, adding functionality not provided by Microsoft (allowing, for example, access to modern file systems like FAT32 supports large disks) and today is used in some embedded systems, as well as allowing you to perform old applications and classics from the world of games for DOS.
FreeDOS can be used on Mac with one of the many virtualizers available. The image files .ISO (used to create the CD) for use with Parallels Desktop, VirtualBox or VMWare Fusion you download from this address. That is, how to turn on the system with the virtualiser VirtualBox :
1.) Start VirtualBox, select ” New “, enter ” DOS ” (or another name) as the operating system, select ” Other ” (Other) as the type and ” DOS ” as the version. Click on ” Continue “.
2.) Select the desired amount of memory (4MB are more than enough) and click ” Continue. ”
3.) Select the virtual disk to the new machine, click on ” Create “, specify the file type to use for the virtual disk, click ” Continue. ”
4.) Select whether to dynamically allocate the disk or set a fixed size and click ” Continue. ”
5.) Indicate the name of the virtual disk and click ” Create. ”
6.) At this point, the virtual machine is ready. Double-click the name of the machine to start it: you will be asked to copy the disk from which if you have burned a CD with the file. ISO can specify this support, otherwise you can specify the file. ISO.
7.) When you first start you will be asked how they want to install the system. You will first need to create the partition, and then you can proceed with the installation.
If you are looking for a MS-DOS compatible operating system specifically designed for running old games, our advice is to use DOSBox.
