I love FreeDos and it s the only operating system on my opd msi computer running a quad core 2.66ghz cpu amd 4gb of ram. My main use is just programming in PowerBasic or FreeBasic, and I may sometime try C thanks to the great videos Mr Hall has on youtube. I do rarely play games, or play mp3 or midi files for some fun. Personally I prefer to use an old computer running FreeDos than a new computer running Linux. I am no pro programmer, but I do love to program and see what I can create.
On Mon, Jun 3, 2024 at 20:11 Eric Auer via Freedos-user < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Hi Jim! > > > My favorite example of someone running FreeDOS was years ago, probably > > around 2005. They built pinball machines, and FreeDOS ran the scoring > > system, lit the lights, and played sound effects from a sound bank... > > Maybe they used some type of lab control or GPIO type ISA or PCI card? > > > My favorite example before that was a nebulous one. Someone from NASA > > emailed me in the late 1990s to say they were using FreeDOS on some of > > their computers. They never provided details, so I don't know what it > > was doing - but how cool that NASA was using FreeDOS!? > > I remember somebody asking whether FreeDOS had contributions from people > from evil countries, because they wanted to use it to run some type of > in-flight entertainment system with some media player app for DOS :-) > > More recently, during a small demoscene event, I noticed that one of > the presented demos was a 256 byte demo running on FreeDOS. The boot > message was only visible for a moment, so I do not know what type of > virtual hardware that FreeDOS instance was running on. > > Cheers, Eric > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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