DOS ain't dead - Fuzoma 1.7 - educational boot floppy based on FreeDOS

bencollver

15.03.2026, 15:18

Fuzoma 1.7 - educational boot floppy based on FreeDOS (Announce)

FUZOMA is a collection of over 40 entertaining educational programs.

Pre-reading, English vocabulary, math, logic, science, music, computer literacy, and more. Only the most imaginative, most engaging, and most effective programs have been hand-picked from a rich history of educational software that goes back over twenty years.

FUZOMA is bootable from CD or USB.

You don't have to install anything if you don't want to. Your computer doesn’t even need a working hard drive.

FUZOMA is accessible.

The project was started at a primary school for the Deaf in Kenya. It works for the neediest learners, and it works on the oldest computers (tested on a 386 with 8MB RAM!).

FUZOMA is unique.

No other bootable software distribution bundles this kind of variety into a kid-friendly package.
Oh, and it's small enough to fit on a floppy.

And it's free.

https://superkeen.com/peacecorpsweblog/learning-software/

p.s.

I guess it uses a non-standard floppy format to squeeze out the maximum storage capacity.

Berlin, Germany,
15.03.2026, 21:38

@ bencollver

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> FUZOMA is a collection of over 40 entertaining educational programs.

Ah, I remember. It's from Paul Blair, who also created this site's favicon. :-)

FUZOMA 1.7 is from 2015-09-19.

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bencollver

16.03.2026, 14:15

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> > FUZOMA is a collection of over 40 entertaining educational programs.
>
> Ah, I remember. It's from Paul Blair, who also created this site's favicon.
> :-)
>
> FUZOMA 1.7 is from 2015-09-19.

Cool!

I saw 1.4 was announced here in 2010.

I read an article about 1.7 that was written just last week. I hadn't heard of it before. The parent said their kid liked it, they demonstrated it at a pre-school math club, and now 5 other parents want to get DOS machines too.

Pre-school math club? Those weren't available here when i was a kid.

"The games are well thought-out. There are no dark patterns. In a single-tasking operating system with no network stack, the child cannot escape from a safe computing compartment. The system will never become obsolete, never need a new machine to run it."