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Geek Culture / Source Code for MS-DOS 6.0

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Toby Quan
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Posted: 12th Oct 2006 01:05
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I just found this on digg.

The source code for DOS can be found in Google Code Search:

http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=show:WtWZkLcWeso:LqnnKA42GyA&sa=N&ct=rdp&cs_p=center.cie.hallym.ac.kr/%7Eyuko/cgi-bin/ez2000/system/db/linux/upload/45/1070214716/MS-DOS.6.0.Source.Code.zip

Wow! My favorite command (attrib) is 2,061 lines of code long!
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Alquerian
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Posted: 12th Oct 2006 01:08
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Quote: "Wow! My favorite command (attrib) is 2,061 lines of code long!"

Good lord that is disgusting. You will see references from the FTP commands that they borrowed stuff from BSD

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Kenjar
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Posted: 12th Oct 2006 13:11
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Umm, he borrowed from apple mac, linux, unix, bsd, CP/M and even the older Atari Operating systems. Lets face it, Bill Gates on his own rarely had an original idea, but he was able to package other peoples ideas nicely.

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Toby Quan
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Posted: 12th Oct 2006 15:17
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Wow! XCopy was written in assembly language, and it's 4,155 lines long! Yuck!

This source code has everything! All the commands, keyboard handlers, mouse handlers, secret DOS tables for the version, compression, printing,

I believe that the source code for QBasic itself can be found in the "45" folder.
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Kenjar
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So, who's going to rip off the operating system then? Wouldn't it be nice to make a true OS indepant game? Just stick in the CD/ DVD and play!

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Kentaree
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Posted: 12th Oct 2006 15:49
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Yep, because without proper hardware support, games are going to play everywhere...

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Kenjar
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Posted: 12th Oct 2006 19:06 Edited at: 12th Oct 2006 19:08
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Oh program it yourself. it's only hundres of hours and pounds programming, testing and ordering all the lastest graphics cards, motherboards, sound cards, and controllers! Easy peasy.

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Kentaree
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Oh, that's ok then Actually, 2D was faster on DOS anyway, the average menu system nowadays takes up more resources than most DOS games

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blanky
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Posted: 13th Oct 2006 01:22 Edited at: 13th Oct 2006 01:34
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Quote: "Good lord that is disgusting. You will see references from the FTP commands that they borrowed stuff from BSD "


If you're on Windows right now, look in C:\Windows\system32\Drivers\etc and open up the 'hosts' file...




[edit: Got location of hosts file wrong -.- ]

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Agent Dink
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Posted: 14th Oct 2006 03:20 Edited at: 14th Oct 2006 03:23
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Dude, I look at old 3d DOS games, and the graphics were so great for the time. Ok, nothing like we have now, and you were lucky to play in 640x480, but with Voxol terrains and all that good stuff, things looked awesome. Blocky but awesome. I mean, look at the first 3d Windows games... It was almost a downgrade. Sure you got cleaner edges and more actual 3d stuff, but it looked crappy. 3d modeled terrains started out with sharp edges and tiling textures, voxol terrains were smoothe and round I.E. Commanche 3d and Terra Nova. No, I'm not saying the old tech was better, but it sure ran faster than polygons...

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Zaibatsu
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The old Leisure Suit Larry one was a few kbs...

One of my favorite old 3D games, was Turok Dinosuar Hunter on PC. It looked better on N64 (which I still have, with the system in perfect condition with 2 boxes of games, two matching green controlers, and an arcade style joy stick which cost more than the system) but it was more fun on PC.

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Lucifer
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Quote: "Bill Gates on his own rarely had an original idea"


the idea wasnt even his, they bought dos 1.0 i think from some guys at a telephone company for 10 000 bucks. it was called dos, the dirty os. then microsoft added ms-dos and put some new features to the newer versions of dos.

and if anyone wants to say that microsoft stole the idea to have a gui operating system from apple, apple stole that idea from another company. and the funny thing is, when apple noticed that windows 1.0 was getting more into the direction of actually looking good. apple sued microsoft for stealing their idea.



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Phaelax
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Posted: 14th Oct 2006 21:52
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Quote: "Wouldn't it be nice to make a true OS indepant game?"


Java? it does have OGL support afterall.



I thought Gates bought DOS for $50k and turned around to IBM, and the rest is history.

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erm... a long time since i saw the movie that explained it all it just might have been 50k..



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Agent Dink
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Pirates of Silicon Valley! Good movie DOS now stands for Disk Operating System, so they must have changed the name before presenting it to IBM...

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Kentaree
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It used to be QDOS, which was Quick and Dirty Operating System.

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