DOS ain't dead - lDOS iniload + fdkernpl used in warez (+ FreeDOS kernel)

ecm

Düsseldorf, Germany,
04.01.2025, 21:54

lDOS iniload + fdkernpl used in warez (+ FreeDOS kernel) (Announce)

The retrocomputing stackexchange user pts asked today what loader was being used in a DOS warez image. Turns out it is a 2022 or 2023 revision of lDOS's iniload and fdkernpl stages.

It was easy for me to recognise both due to being named io.sys and containing a FreeDOS kernel and of course the very distinct error messages pts quoted from the initial loader.

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DosWorld

05.01.2025, 02:25
(edited by DosWorld, 05.01.2025, 13:46)

@ ecm

lDOS iniload + fdkernpl used in warez (+ FreeDOS kernel)

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> I've found it on http://www.mul[cut]ot.ru/[cut/

Will be good stop deliver Russian translations with freedos. Definitely, may be somebody live one day more. (dos is wide used in factories on outdated machines)

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mceric

Germany,
05.01.2025, 13:40

@ DosWorld

lDOS iniload + fdkernpl used in warez (+ FreeDOS kernel)

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> Will be good stop deliver Russian translations with freedos. Definitely,
> may be somebody live one day more. (dos is wide used in factories on
> outdated machines)

As with many other countries, the problem are the politics there, not the people there. There are hard-working Russian experts in the DOSEMU2 team, for example.

Still, I have a bit of a problem with this thread because it indirectly advertises that Warez download. While it is interesting for the author that iniload is used for that, it is not necessarily interesting for BTTR ;-)

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DosWorld

05.01.2025, 13:52
(edited by DosWorld, 05.01.2025, 15:05)

@ mceric

lDOS iniload + fdkernpl used in warez (+ FreeDOS kernel)

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1. I’ll refer to Linus opinion. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvalds-Russian-Devs

> I'm Finnish. Did you think I'd be *supporting* Russian aggression?
> Apparently it's not just lack of real news, it's lack of history knowledge too.

Here is many people from CR, IMHO, they also have own point of view.

Also, this is not problem of politics or space science - I am soldier of Ukrainian army. This is real world every day problem.
You can say “I am out of politic”, - yes I am hear this opinion many times… from Russians (99% cases). Could not recommend do in this way (if you have no second citizenship for backup “we broke own country, so need escape outside”).

2. Link to wares has been fixed. Sorry.

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