DOS ain't dead

Hello!

Does anybody have success story with %subj%?

Now, for me it looks like a hell - import/export drive c (due to filesystem access restrictions). So i am looking for a more successful usage scenario.

PS: Refurbished chromebook is pretty cheap, have no coolers (which require care, time to time), light weight, OS have no problem with hardware drivers - looks like a good candidate for dos laptop. Chromeos - to access to internet (gmail, www etc), dosbox - for applications. Imho. So i am try check this usage model.

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Make DOS great again!

Carthago delenda est, Ceterum censeo Carthaginem delendam esse.

> Hello!
>
> Does anybody have success story with %subj%?
>
> Now, for me it looks like a hell - import/export drive c (due to filesystem
> access restrictions). So i am looking for a more successful usage
> scenario.
>
> PS: Refurbished chromebook is pretty cheap, have no coolers (which require
> care, time to time), light weight, OS have no problem with hardware drivers
> - looks like a good candidate for dos laptop. Chromeos - to access to
> internet (gmail, www etc), dosbox - for applications. Imho. So i am try
> check this usage model.

Seems plausible

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dosbox-f...hrome/jhceknlmaggijlkkcemdaghpniimajhd?hl=en-US

https://chromeunboxed.com/revisit-childhood-games-with-dosbox-on-your-chromebook/

https://platypusplatypus.com/chromebooks/play-dos-games/

Google can help here
https://www.google.com/search?q=DosBox+on+Chromebook


Also, I did something like this 8 years ago or so to boot into BIOS requiring OS.
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/docs/+/HEAD/developer_mode.md#alt-firmware

It wasn't clean but I did get Ubuntu to install though it didn't work well at the time.

I'll share my first impression.

DosBox from ChomeWeb Store - Crap. (Filesystem restriction) Can be used for "time to time play a games". When you need active file exchange with "dosbox in a jail" -> cause hell for you.

Solution, which looks like work:
1. Go to Dev mode (this step will CLEAR ALL YOUR DATA)
2. Try escape to linux.
2.1 Via built-in linux support (my device have NO)
2.2 or via crouton (my way).

As result i receive second OS - sort of ubuntu with lxde and can install dosbox. Ubuntu have too small memory, but enough to run chrome (again??) with few pages, dosbox and git. Fn keys is mapped in right way.

Imho, like all my tasks (for this device) is solved. Not so bad, for laptop which is two time cheapest then calculator.

So, life is exists with chromeos. Anyway, if you try repeat and fail - your child will be happy.

PS: This is way of "lazy man", so i don't receive true dos and keep internet access.

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Make DOS great again!

Carthago delenda est, Ceterum censeo Carthaginem delendam esse.

> Imho, like all my tasks (for this device) is solved. Not so bad, for laptop
> which is two time cheapest then
> calculator.

For that price I'd rather buy/get some scraped old good Thinkpad/Compaq/Dell that can run native DOS and some Linux for web...

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DOS gives me freedom to unlimited HW access.