I recently wrote a few articles for a friend's website about the FreeDOS anniversary.
On June 29 (anniversary day) I shared this article: How FreeDOS got started https://www.both.org/?p=14240 -- It's basically a brief history of FreeDOS. I imagine most people on the email list have heard this story before. On the www.freedos.org website, I shared the Alpha5 and Beta1 distributions so people could try them out and see where things started. You can download these and install them yourself. The challenge is that Alpha5 and Beta1 didn't provide a boot floppy, so you had to have at least a minimal DOS system on your C: drive to start with. Then you had to extract several zip files to separate floppies (like Base1, Base2, Edit1, .. and so on) and copy the installer to your C: drive and start the install from there. Because that's a lot of steps, I shared an article on Wednesday to show what Alpha5 looked like: A look back: FreeDOS Alpha 5 https://www.both.org/?p=14364 And today, I shared an article to show what Beta1 looked like: Hands-on with FreeDOS Beta1 https://www.both.org/?p=14397 Both articles include screenshots, but the Beta1 article has more screenshots because I also made a boot floppy with the beta kernel (DOS-C 1932) and used that to run some classic DOS apps and games. Some apps didn't run at all, or crashed -- but others worked fine: DOOM, Lotus 1-2-3, As-Easy-As, and MSD all ran fine. (I needed to use the /NT [no turbo keyboard] with As-Easy-As or it would randomly crash.) _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
