| 📰 Title: | FreeDOS | 🕹️ / 🛠️ Type: | Tool |
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| 🗃️ Genre: | Emulation | 👁️ Visual: | 2D |
| 🏷️ Category: | Emulation ➤ Engine ➤ MICROSOFT | 🏝️ Perspective: | First person (interface) |
| 🔖 Tags: | Operating System; MICROSOFT; dos | ⏱️ Pacing: | Real Time |
| 🐣️ Approx. start: | 1994-06-29 | 👫️ Played: | Single |
| 🐓️ Latest: | 2024-05-20 | 🚦 Status: | 04. Released (status) |
| 📍️ Version: | Latest: 2.43 (kernel) / FreeDOS 1.3 // Dev: c012700 | ❤️ Like it: | 9. ⏳️ |
| 🏛️ License type: | 🕊️ Libre | 🎀️ Quality: | 7. ⏳️ |
| 🏛️ License: | GPL-2 | ✨️ (temporary): | |
| 🐛️ Created: | 2022-11-12 | 🐜️ Updated: | 2024-11-05 |
| 📦️ Package name: | fdpp | install-freedos | ..... 📦️ Arch: |  |
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| 📄️ Source: | |
..... 📦️ RPM: | |
| ⚙️ Generic binary: | |
..... 📦️ Deb: | |
| 🌍️ Browser version: | ..... 📦️ AppImage: | ||
| 📱️ PDA support: | ..... 📦️ Flatpak: | ||
| ✨️ Not use: | ..... 📦️ Snap: |
| 📰 What's new?: | 👻️ Temporary: | ||
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| 💡 Lights on: | 🎨️ Significant improvement: | ||
| 👔️ Already shown: | 💭️ New version published (to be updated): | ||
| 🎖️ This work: |  |
🚧️ Some work remains to be done: | |
| 👫️ Contrib.: | goupildb | 🦺️ Work in progress: | |
| 🎰️ ID: | 16273 |
| 📜️[en]: | A libre operating system compatible with MS-DOS. Just about any program that runs under MS-DOS will run under FreeDOS, even on a network, with few limitations (the '386' mode of Windows for Workgroups 3.11 does not work). It allows you to play classic DOS games, run old software (to recover data from an old company program for example) or develop embedded systems (or maintain old embedded systems). | 📜️[fr]: | Un système d'exploitation libre compatible avec MS-DOS. A peu près tous les programmes qui fonctionnent sous MS-DOS fonctionneront sous FreeDOS, même en réseau, avec peu de limitations (le mode '386' de Windows for Workgroups 3.11 ne fonctionne pas). Il permet de jouer à des jeux DOS classiques, d'exécuter d'anciens logiciels (pour récupérer les données d'un ancien programme d'entreprise par exemple) ou développer des systèmes embarqués (ou maintenir d'anciens systèmes embarqués). |
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🦉️From Devs: 30th Anniversary with Jim Hall and Jeff Brace (202406), FreeDOS Project: Then and Now [Kielux 2017] (201711),
🦝️ From Users: (202304),
📰 Progress: (1.3/202203),
🕵️ Reviews: (1.3/202203),
🕯️ How To: (202410), (202204), [fr](202106),
🎮️ Showcase: (202406), (201912), (202010),
🏡️ Website & videos
[Homepage] [Dev site] [Features/About] [Screenshots] [Videos pv(1.3/202203) t(202xxx) gd(202406) gd(201711) gu(202304) r(1.3/202203) lp(202xxx) d(202406) d(201912) d(202010) d(201912) d(202107) d(202203) d(202004) d(202006) d(202008) d(202107) d(202109) ht(202410) ht(202204) ht(202202) ht[fr](202106) ht[de](202xxx) ht[ru](202xxx) ht[pl](202xxx) ht[cz](202xxx) ht[sp](202xxx) ht[pt](202xxx) ht[it](202xxx) ht[tr](202xxx)] [WIKI 1 2] [FAQ] [RSS] [Changelog 1 2 3]
💰 Commercial
• [Patreon]
🍩️ Resources
🔘️ Forks/Other similar projects
• MS-DOS (The original sources of MS-DOS 1.25, 2.0, & 4.0 for reference purposes, MIT, Thanks to [phoronix (20240426)] & [FreeDOS (20240428)]): [Homepage] [Dev site] [A few details, by Jim Hall] [HOWTO] 🎬️ g(202404) ht((Using it to compile programs, thanks to FreeDOS), 202405)
🔘️ Some documentation
• Installing FreeDOS on a host system (installing FreeDOS using QEMU on Linux): ht(202303)
• IBM PC Assembly language (IBM PC Assembly language programming & Peter Norton's assembly language book): [Internet Archive (Peter Norton's assembly language book)] gu(202309)
• Learn C by writing a number guessing game (by Jim Hall, the author of FreeDOS): [Homepage] [Dev site] 🎬️ g(202xxx)
🔘️ Tools
▸ System
• Dosfetch (a neofetch clone for DOS): [Dev site]
• WinWorld (an online museum dedicated to the preservation and sharing of vintage, abandoned, and pre-release software): [Homepage]
• Jemm (EMMs ( Expanded Memory Managers ) or, more exactly, V86 monitors, free): [Homepage] [Dev site] 🎬️ g(202xxx)
▸ Disks
• MBiRa (a boot manager that can be installed in the first sector of an HDD (MBR) and can automatically boot an OS, BSD-2): [Dev site]
• Logger (a message logging system for boot & general message logging, for example to find a message that was displayed stealthily at boot time, BSD-3): [Homepage]
• EtherDFS (It maps a drive from a remote computer (typically Linux-based) to a local drive letter, MIT): g(202xxx) [Homepage] [Dev site]
• NDN (Necromancer's Dos Navigator is a clone of the famous "Norton Commander", Free): [Homepage]
• DOS Disk Editor (handles all types of FAT file systems - including exFAT, GPL-2): [Dev site]
• Ranish Partition Manager (a fork of Ranish Partition Manager, the last version distributed under public domain): [Dev site]
• Free FDISK (a tool to manage the partitions on disks of up to 2 TiB in size using a Master Boot Record (MBR) partition table, GPL-2+): [Dev site]
• 💥️ WDe (DOS Disk Editor, handles all types of FAT file systems, GPL-2): [Homepage] [Dev site] 🎬️ g(202xxx)
▸ Utilities
• DosView (an image viewer/converter for MS-DOS, MIT&misc.): [Homepage] [Dev site] 🎬️ g(202xxx) g(202xxx)
▸ Development
• DOjS (a DOS JavaScript Canvas with sound, MIT): [Dev site]
• DOS_SDK (a SDK for developing DOS software for x86 machines, including IBM PC compatibles and NEC PC-98, BSD-3-Clause): [Dev site]
• NASM (a cross-platform x86 assembler with an Intel-like syntax, 2-clause BSD): [Homepage] [Dev site]
• Debug/X (a package of debuggers, free): [Homepage] [Dev site] 🎬️ g(202xxx)
• lDebug (a 86-DOS debugger based on the MS-DOS Debug clone FreeDOS Debug, Fair | 2-Clause BSD | MIT): [Homepage] [Dev site] 🎬️ g(202xxx)
▸ Editors
• Edlin (the standard line editor in the FreeDOS operating system, GPL-2): [Dev site] ht(202307)
• Bloček (a text editor for DOS with Unicode support, GPL-2): [Homepage]
• dos2unix / unix2dos (Convert text files with DOS or Mac line breaks to Unix line breaks and vice versa, BSD): [Homepage] [Dev site] g(202xxx)
▸ Sound
• SBEMU (It provides SoundBlaster emulation with OPL3 for AC97, and could be a way to play classic DOS games on newer PC hardware, CC-BY 4.0): [Homepage] [Dev site] 🎬️ ht(202303) ht(202305)
• VSBHDA (a fork of SBEMU, Sound Blaster emulation for DOS, free): [Homepage] [Dev site] 🎬️ g(202xxx)
▸ Office
• Microsoft Multiplan (an early 8-bit spreadsheet application for CP/M and MS-DOS, Free): [Homepage]
• Lotus 1-2-3 (an early 8-bit spreadsheet application for MS-DOS, Free): [Homepage]
• As-Easy-As (a shareware 32-bit spreadsheet program developed in 1986 for MS-DOS and later for Microsoft Window, [fr] [en] [de]): [trisunic.com forum (a place where to get a free legit copy)] [Dev site] 🎬️ gu(201910)
▸ Social networking
• DOStodon (a mastodon client for MS-DOS, MIT): [Dev site] [Review, by fabulous.systems]
🔘️ Games
• Cats on Broombas (a puzzle-game with EGA graphics developed for #dosgamejam): [Homepage]
• Toy CPU Simulator (Simple console editor for Windows, Linux, Dos, by jimhall): [Homepage] g(202211) [FOSDEM 2023 (Learn 8-bit machine language with the Toy CPU emulator)]
• Toledo Atomchess (Chess with CGA graphics, free & NC): [Homepage]
• Dstroy (a Bombermanania game for MS-Dos originally released in 1995, free): [Homepage] [Dev site] 🎬️ t(202006)
🛠️ Technical informations
[PCGamingWiki] [MobyGames]
🦣️ Social
(FreeDOS) Devs (FreeDOS Team [fr] [en]): [Site 1 2] [Chat] [mastodon] [PeerTube] [YouTube] [PressKit] [Interview 1(202xxx) 2(202xxx)]
(FreeDOS) Devs (Jim Hall (jhall) [fr] [en]): [Site 1 2 3] [Patreon] [Chat] [mastodon] [PeerTube] [YouTube] [PressKit] [Interview 1(History - 30 years of FreeDOS)(202402) 2(Kielux 2017)(201711)] 3(April 1st video)(202104)]
(DOS-C) Devs (Pat Villani (patv) [fr] [en]): [Site 1 2] [Chat] [mastodon] [PeerTube] [YouTube] [PressKit] [Interview 1(202xxx) 2(202xxx)]
(MS-DOS) Devs (Microsoft [fr] [en]): [Site 1 2 3] [mastodon] [Facebook] [PeerTube] [YouTube] [LinkedIn] [PressKit] [Interview 1(The story)(201806) 2(Bill Gates)(201810) 3(Paul Allen)(201104) 4(Steve Ballmer)(201611)]
The Project: [Blog] [Chat] [Forums] [mastodon] [Facebook] [PeerTube] [YouTube] 💥️ [PressKit] [reddit] [Discord]
🐝️ Related
[Wikipedia (FreeDOS) [fr] [en] [de]]
[Wikipedia (MS-DOS) [fr] [en] [de]]
📦️ Misc. repositories
[Repology] [pkgs.org] [Generic binary] [Arch Linux / AUR] [openSUSE] [Debian/Ubuntu] [Flatpak] [AppImage(author's repo)] [Snap] [PortableLinuxGames]
🕵️ Reviews
[HowLongToBeat] [metacritic] [OpenCritic] [iGDB] 💥️ [arsTECHNICA] 💥️ [The register] [TechRadar]
🕊️ Source of this Entry: [Thanks to Matias/sigsegv @floss.social(20221111)]
🦣️ Social Networking Update (on mastodon)
🛠️ Title: FreeDOS
🦊️ What's: A libre OS compatible with MS-DOS
🏡️ https://freedos.org/
🐣️ https://github.com/FDOS
💰 https://www.freedos.org/patreon
🦉️ https://fosstodon.org/@freedosproject
🔖 #LinuxTool #OperatingSystem #Microsoft
📦️ #Libre #Bin #Arch #RPM
📖 Our entry: (homeless)
🥁️ Update: 2.43
⚗️ Maintenance 🪛️
📌️ Changes: https://github.com/FDOS/kernel/releases
🦣️ From: https://fosstodon.org/@freedosproject/109327255986553805
📰(1.3) https://www.youtube.com/embed/-dypXc4B4wI
🦉️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/_peIYEAM9pk
🦝️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/3f6LgkbDqRI
🕵️(1.3) https://www.youtube.com/embed/SNeq-F84Lx4
🎮️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/q9iyo5HA0ns
🎮️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/qYraCxssydY
🕶️ A view of FreeDOS, so in command line, launched from VirtualBOX
📚️ FreeDOS is a libre operating system compatible with MS-DOS. Just about any program that runs under MS-DOS will run under FreeDOS, even on a network, with few limitations (the '386' mode of Windows for Workgroups 3.11 does not work). It allows you to play classic DOS games, run old software (to recover data from an old company program for example) or develop embedded systems (or maintain old embedded systems).
📜️ "A libre operating system compatible with MS-DOS" 📜️
FreeDOS is an open source DOS-compatible operating system that you can use to play classic DOS games, run legacy business software, or develop embedded systems. Any program that works on MS-DOS should also run on FreeDOS.
Play classic games
You can play your favorite DOS games on FreeDOS. And there are a lot of great classic games to play: Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Commander Keen, Rise of the Triad, Jill of the Jungle, Duke Nukem, and many others!
Run applications
You can run your favorite DOS programs with FreeDOS. Or use FreeDOS to run a legacy DOS application. Just install your DOS program under FreeDOS like you would any DOS application and you'll be good to go.
Create new programs
FreeDOS includes lots of compilers, assemblers, and other programming tools so you can create your own DOS programs. You can also modify FreeDOS itself, because we include the source code under an open source license.
Un système d'exploitation libre compatible avec MS-DOS, par la FreeDOS Team, initié par Jim Hall (jhall), dérivé de l'émulateur DOS-C de Pat Villani (patv).
En C & Assembleur.
FreeDOS est un système d'exploitation libre compatible avec MS-DOS. A peu près tous les programmes qui fonctionnent sous MS-DOS fonctionneront sous FreeDOS, même en réseau, avec peu de limitations (le mode '386' de Windows for Workgroups 3.11 ne fonctionne pas). Il permet de jouer à des jeux DOS classiques, d'exécuter d'anciens logiciels (pour récupérer les données d'un ancien programme d'entreprise par exemple) ou développer des systèmes embarqués (ou maintenir d'anciens systèmes embarqués).
FreeDOS est un système d'exploitation libre compatible DOS que vous pouvez utiliser pour jouer à des jeux DOS classiques, exécuter d'anciens logiciels d'entreprise ou développer des systèmes intégrés. Tout programme fonctionnant sous MS-DOS devrait également fonctionner sous FreeDOS.
Jouer aux jeux classiques
Vous pouvez jouer à vos jeux DOS préférés sous FreeDOS. Et il y a beaucoup de grands jeux classiques à jouer : Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Commander Keen, Rise of the Triad, Jill of the Jungle, Duke Nukem, et bien d'autres !
Exécuter des applications
Vous pouvez exécuter vos programmes DOS préférés avec FreeDOS. Ou utiliser FreeDOS pour exécuter une application DOS traditionnelle. Installez simplement votre programme DOS sous FreeDOS comme vous le feriez pour n'importe quelle application DOS et vous serez prêt à partir.
Créer de nouveaux programmes
FreeDOS comprend de nombreux compilateurs, assembleurs et autres outils de programmation qui vous permettent de créer vos propres programmes DOS. Vous pouvez également modifier FreeDOS lui-même, car nous incluons le code source sous une licence libre.