Life After MS-DOS: FreeDOS Keeps On Kicking

angry tapir writes "FreeDOS — the drop-in, open source replacement for MS-DOS — was started after Microsoft announced that starting from Windows 95, DOS would play a background role at best for users. Almost two decades later, FreeDOS has survived and, as its creator explains in this interview, is still being actively developed, despite achieving its initial aim of an MS-DOS compatible OS, which quite frankly is somewhat amazing."

That's cool, I guess ...

[0racle]

The graphics suck though.

That's awesome!

[Ukab the Great]

If only I hadn't used all my 5.25" floppies trying to decapitate attacking zombies...

They can take our lives...

[jfdavis668]

They can take our lives, but they will never take our FreeDOS! William (Bill) Wallace

Re:Dosbox or freedos

[Cro Magnon]

In prehistoric times, when I upgraded from my olde 8088 to a speedy new 286, several of my games became nearly unplayable.

Re:Dosbox or freedos

[Eyezen]

Then just (de)press the turbo button!!! ;-)

Re:That's cool, I guess ...

[ProzacPatient]

Still looks better then Windows 8 though

Re:That's cool, I guess ...

[sootman]

Agreed. Just check out this screenshot:

C:\>_

Modernization

[jones_supa]

DOS could really use a modern composited OpenGL accelerated desktop. Maybe call it "GL Accelerated Disk Operating System". What do you think?

Re:That's awesome!

[OzPeter]

If only I hadn't used all my 5.25" floppies trying to decapitate attacking zombies...

Ha! you call that a floppy disk? [pulls out and brandishes an 8" floppy disk]

Re:That's awesome!

[rubycodez]

12" (30 cm) laserdiscs, can even kill non-zombie with those mothers.

Re:Not surprising

[Nyder]

...

Gosh. "...can be loaded high.". I got a little tickle of nostalgia thinking about that. All those wonderful "load high and remain resident" hacks.

Wait. Why is this good?

640k is enough for everyone!

Re:Not surprising

[gmhowell]

I saw TSR and got the same feeling

Pfft. TSR sucked after that lawsuit with Gygax's wife.