"DOS Week" Roundup!

Date:
Wed, 21 Sep 2022 20:28:28 GMT

Description:
A (more or less) complete look at what happened during the amazing "Week in DOS"!

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Our Live in DOS for a Week challenge has come to and end here at The
Lunduke Journal. It was a blast to have a good excuse to play around with
DOS stuff for a full week. Awesome graphic by Dreadful of The Lunduke Journal Community

Gaming, software, programming, graphics, networking, different DOS systems we kinda hit on all of it during the week! Well done, everyone!

What follows is a day-by-day breakdown of what happened during DOS Week (not including the various chats and hangouts): Day 1

We kicked off DOS Week with a podcast .

Greg posted a handy Linux shell script for creating floppy images (for use in VMs for DOS).

Playing Star Trek 25th Anniversary , the DOS version, on an iPhone.

OpenGEM on FreeDOS !

Web browsing with Lynx !

Perl in FreeDOS !

OPL3 Sound output via code !

At 10am we held a Founding Member Hangout video chat where we talked, among other things, about a bunch of DOS stuff.

DOS memories from Lee who does not want to run DOS! ;)

Remembering the Stoned.Monkey virus .

Scotts plans involving Lotus 1-2-3 and Cosmos Cosmic Adventure.

EDITV - A solid (free) text editor.

Microsoft Word 5.5 for DOS is freeware !

Cutting pins on a VGA cable for a Tandy 2500 SX/33.

This afternoon we had a text chat over on Lunduke.Locals.com where many tips and software recommendations were swapped.

Thinking about long lost floppies and Zip disks .

Calendar Creator Plus, Easy Way Desktop Publisher, & MS QBasic editor ! Oh, my!

Getting DOS running on bare metal (an old Pentium).

Remembering Novell Netware . *shudder* Day 2

Getting GW-BASIC working !

The challenges of networking in FreeDOS on a Thinkpad .

DOS for Dummies !

Getting an old Celeron loaded with FreeDOS .

So many bad sectors on that floppy !

mTCP_Telnet for DOS is fancy!

Jill of the Jungle !

Install Word? Check !

Descent is such a good game !

A reminder that GW-BASIC is open source .

The Tandy 1000TL has a working floppy drive now!

Mavis Beacon . She teaches typing.

Wordstar is the king of word processors.

MS-DOS ASMR ? Ok!

Wolfenstein 3D running on the MNT Reform .

Android + DOSBox + Commander Keen.

Tinkering with SQLite in FreeDOS . Day 3

Wordperfect 5.1 (the king!) in DOSBox-X

FreeDOS online on bare metal !

Tandy 1000TL surgery successful !

DOS, OpenBSD, and Wii . Oh, my!

Online and web browsing with DOS !

Big infographic of DOS games !

The day coded in BASIC

FreeDOS Ethernet settings and details

MS-DOS Lan Manager

Pathminder !

One snazzy looking Tandy!

DOS gaming on a Linux palmtop

On BIOS and GW-BASIC

Moving files in and out of DOS with ETHERDFS .

OpenGEM on FreeDOS video

The O-ZONE DOS GUI .

Sneak peek at MS-DOS 4 article .

Lots and lots of DOS resource links on GitHub .

DIV-Games studio for DOS.

Derive symboblic math software for DOS

Borland Turbo C++ !

PFS: First Choice suite Day 4

Looking for Reader Rabbit for Tandy 1000

Study Bible for DOS

DannyPaint for DOS

Working on WeKan for DOS

Problems with FreeDOS on a Lenovo ThinkPad T440p

OPL3 Synthesis in DOS

Forth !

VGA Solitaire

A-10 Take Killer & Car & Driver

Work continues on WeKan for DOS with SQLite

Performance benchmarks for DOS with TOPBENCH

Turning a Nintendo Wii into a DOS gaming machine

Compiling DOS software from Windows under WSL

Playing Dark Forces in DOSBox on a OneXPlayer 1S handheld

Tandy 1000 + NEC Multispeed Day 5

1983 commercial for Visi On .

A day in the life ... in BASIC.

Star Control II !

CGA Graphics programming

DOOM soundtrack !

More CGA programming !

Jill of the Jungle music

MORE CGA programming ! lol! SO MUCH CGA!

Wait. MORE CGA?!?!?

DOS Week rules .

The Planets ... done in 8Bit sound.

Toshiba Libretto running DOS! Day 6

Carmen Sandiego ! In CGA!

Mixed Up Mother Goose, DOS Batch files, and kids netbooks .

FAT stuff !

DeskMate keyboard overlays !

Playing DOS games with the wife!

More OPL3 sequencing on DOS!

DOS fire demos !

Mechwarrior 2 was such a great game.

COCO emulator, IRC, & Gopher in DOS! Day 7

Top 5 DOS Games

The IBMulator !

Need More DOS !

Search Engines in ye old DOS-y times.

DOOM floppies !

Printing on old printers in DOS!

Spreadsheets in DOS on a Libretto

Presentation slides in DOS!

Ok. Now thats just fancy .

TED - DOS text editor

Getting sick on DOS week is no fun!

Stuff learned in DOS Week.

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