DOS ain't dead - Do you know TRDOS?

RayeR

CZ,
16.03.2025, 06:37

Do you know TRDOS? (Users)

http://github.com/turkishrational/trdos
there are 2 versions for 8086 and 386.
Seems not compatible with MSDOS but some known DOS apps was ported. BTW it has support for SB16, AC97 and HDA...
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoGeS4ul2nw

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DosWorld

16.03.2025, 08:45

@ RayeR

Do you know TRDOS?

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Known, but in another context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TR-DOS

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RayeR

CZ,
17.03.2025, 21:17

@ DosWorld

Do you know TRDOS?

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Heh, just a coincidence of the same name. There are just too many DOSes...

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tom Germany (West), 18.03.2025, 03:40 @ RayeR	Do you know TRDOS? Post reply
	> Heh, just a coincidence of the same name. There are just too many DOSes... with the minor difference that is not any DOS

Zyzzle

18.03.2025, 10:55

@ RayeR

Do you know TRDOS?

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> http://github.com/turkishrational/trdos
> there are 2 versions for 8086 and 386.
> Seems not compatible with MSDOS but some known DOS apps was ported. BTW it
> has support for SB16, AC97 and HDA...
> Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoGeS4ul2nw
I wonder if the custom "TRFS1" filesystem supports > 4 GiB files?

And built in support for AC97 and HDA before SbEmu? Impressive.

However, since it is not compatible with MS-DOS, there seems not much point beyond playing around. Real compatibility is desired at the interpreter level.

RayeR

CZ,
19.03.2025, 05:05

@ Zyzzle

Do you know TRDOS?

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> However, since it is not compatible with MS-DOS, there seems not much point
> beyond playing around. Real compatibility is desired at the interpreter
> level.

Sure, it's the major issue of so called 'DOSes'...
I found it interesting coz author ported MP3PLAY there - it's high optimized MP3 player that can play MP3 files even on 386 at decent quality (my video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DuXoMHgSDo ) but it's Win32 app and installing Win95 on a 386 may not be fun if you don't have enuf RAM and SSD. And it's crashing with HXDOS :( So running it under TRDOS may be more lightweigt alternative than under Win95 but I didn't have a time to try to boot it on my 386 yet...

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RayeR

CZ,
30.03.2025, 03:29

@ RayeR

mp3play under DOS with HX DOS experiment

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I tried mp3play on another 486 MB with SB AWE64 where it runs under HX DOS without crashing but it seems win32 sound api emulation overhead is so high that I couldn't get smooth playback even on Am5x86 @160MHz. Still not sure if this is just prticular issue of my system or in general such CPU is too slow for smooth playback. If someone else wants to try mp3play 1.5 http://problemkaputt.de/mp3.htm under HX...
I also tried to install Win32S in Windows 3.11 but it seems doesn't support any win32 console app, no way...

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RayeR

CZ,
07.04.2025, 10:19

@ RayeR

Do you know TRDOS?

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I tried one TRDOS bootable floppy image. On my main Core i7 PC it just instantly restarted so couldn't see if it spit some error.
On 486DLC it can boot from a real floppy or via GRUB from DOS from image file.
The kernel is about 90kB.
It understands FAT12 and 16 FS.
It use it's own executable format ".PRG" and cannot load DOS COM/EXE. There are lot of small programs, seems all written in (F)ASM, many was ported from DOS.
It has support for SB16 and AC97. I tested only with SB 2.0 compatible, it detected sound device but didn't play anything...

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