DOS ain't dead

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posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 11.06.2012, 18:04
(edited by Rugxulo on 11.06.2012, 21:24)

Just for clarity ...

I'm fairly certain that rr (our BDFL) would disagree with links to "abandonware" here, which has dubious (if any) legal support.

While I vaguely sympathize, esp. for old historical software, it's just not justified. Even if I did agree, it wouldn't matter, the punitive arm of the law is quite strong. So even regarding a so-called good site (no ads, no donations) that limits itself to hosting 125 GB of minimum 7-year-old software with no current other way to purchase it, I'm afraid that I disagree with its validity or usefulness.

They do have some interesting versions of things on there, but a lot of it is already freeware (at least in equivalence) or similar: OpenGem, 4DOS, TC201, BCC55, TP55, FPC, FBC, OW, JWasm, Doszip, Info-Zip, Ytree, Chatzilla, Inferno, Plan9, OpenSolaris, PC-DOS (via Server Scripting Toolkit), EDR-DOS, WINE, HX Win32 emulation, etc.

Hence, I do suggest to focus more on freeware (or, even better, libre) software these days as we are quite lucky to have lots of goodies. There will always be oldies-but-goodies that you can't find, but it's not worth focusing too too much on them, it's just counter-productive (unless you want to search eBay or Amazon, which can be vaguely fun in its own right).

Complete thread:

• Stumbeled upon - w3a537, 11.06.2012, 03:00
  • Stumbeled upon - w3a537, 11.06.2012, 05:54
    • Stumbeled upon - Rugxulo, 11.06.2012, 18:04
      • Stumbeled upon - rr, 11.06.2012, 22:08
        • Stumbeled upon - RayeR, 12.06.2012, 20:06
          • Stumbeled upon - rr, 12.06.2012, 22:40
  • Stumbeled upon - w3a537, 12.06.2012, 00:10
  • Stumbeled upon - w3a537, 12.06.2012, 05:11