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Microsoft releases MS-DOS source code on GitHub

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In March 2014, Microsoft had released the source code to MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0 via the Computer History Museum. A few days ago, they have re-released that same source on GitHub so it's much easier to find. Microsoft encourages exploring and experimenting with the source, but ask people not to send Pull Requests, as this publishing is purely for historical purposes.
You can check out MS-DOS on GitHub here.

:arrow: Source - Microsoft Developer Blog
:arrow: Coverage of the original release 4 years ago by FAST6191
 
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kikongokiller said:
Saw this on Github hours ago and wondered how it wasn't on the front page yet. This is pretty important news imo.
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Not really, first it was released 4 years ago, just somewhere else, and we have had FreeDOS for almost two decades now, whoever wants to see how DOS works can check FreeDOS' source code. Furthermore, MS-DOS 2.x is too old to be of any help to projects such as FreeDOS (which is 99.9% percent compatible, except with an edge case involving Windows 3.11).
 
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kikongokiller said:
Saw this on Github hours ago and wondered how it wasn't on the front page yet. This is pretty important news imo.
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Erm... Sorry, but I'm not seeing why. It was released in 2014 already, and it's not like they're releasing the source codes of newer versions (just checked : it went up to 7.0). And even then... What's the practical use? Github is certainly better for sharing and updating but why would you want it?
 
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Akdul said:
Yeah, Archive.org is great. Speaking about DOS games, I wanted to recommend this hidden DOS gem, it's an awesome racer/platformer game. I spent hours playing that as a kid, good times.

https://archive.org/details/SkyRoads
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I feel like I've played this game before. Or maybe clones.
The sound is on top and I really like its visual technique.
 

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