r/DOS

Hi all, I know this sub leans toward the OS itself more than the games that ran on it, so mods please pull this if it does not fit.

I grew up on the DOS space shooters, Hell Fighter 32 and Solar Winds most of all, and a couple of years ago I started building my own homage to them from the ground up. Top down fighters and capital ships, everything painted as light on a black screen, which is how those games always felt to me. It grew into a proper thing over time: voiced campaigns, a battle editor, multiplayer, a persistent war mode.

This week I cut a trailer that tries to show the whole box in about a minute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goIm8JuLeZY

Store page if you want to keep an eye on it: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4718360/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=dos&utm_campaign=prelaunch and a free demo lands in about a month.

Happy to answer anything. Honest opinions welcome, including that it looks nothing like actual DOS, which is fair, it is the spirit I was chasing, not the pixel counts.

I wanted to share my cool find. See if anyone has any interesting info on it. Still in the original shrink wrap

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1koFhBQ05IwFf96WPrw8Sj8Nr0zDTlP_d?usp=sharing

Also previously known under the names GodsBog OS, GogsBog OS, and Cashcore OS. This unique OS was developed by the obviously mentally unwell Shawn T. Cook in the 2000s/2010s. It became somewhat well known on certain computer forums back in the day, but it never saw the same level of popularity as Terry Davis and TempleOS. During its last few years Shawn would pull down his tripod.com site, and then briefly repost it for a few days when he developed a new version. I have here a version of ConeHead, which may be one of the last versions posted, as well as 2 versions of LoveBugs that I was able to find on the Wayback Machine. Also included are Shawn's guides to his W++ programing language as well as miscellaneous programs, bits of code, and writings that I saved back in the day. Information about this OS is becoming increasingly harder to find over the years, and the OS itself is nearly impossible to find. If anyone has any other versions of this, then please consider archiving them somewhere as they are basically lost media.

I tried posting this to archive.org, but it got auto-removed because the iso files get flagged as a virus. To get around this I reuploaded everything to Google Drive, with the iso files in password protected folders. The Conehead change log does say "I accidentally backed up files infected with the Trisha virus." I'm not sure if the iso still contains another DOS virus, or if some of his programs are just coded with virus-like behaviors. I have the Virustotal report here:

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/d824c14f41e32ae6ca62d998dd6678eef7dc55bcf8f39aaf211e698c97277691/detection

It's all low or medium level threats, and most DOS viruses aren't capable of doing much on modern Windows systems, and even if there is something, it is unlikely to escape a virtual machine. Whatever the actual issue is, I don't believe there is any danger to just keeping the iso file on your PC. If you are actually concerned about it then just use it on a Linux machine. There is also a few older usage videos on Youtube if you just want to see footage of the OS in action without downloading anything. At the end of the day this OS is essentially just a toy, it's not something you would want to make your new main OS. It's main draw is all the games and random text files that Shawn has created for it. I'm not even sure if it has networking capabilities, since I've never tried. Each ISO also contains what appears to be a version of the OS created for TI Voyage 200 calculators, but I haven't tried those out either.

Hello. I wrote a small Integrated Development Environment called Nine in assembly language for the Intel 80C196 16-bit microcontroller. It was designed for remote embedded systems meant to be directly programmed on the spot using a detachable PS2 keyboard and a 40 column LCD display module. I ported it to MS-DOS and have slowly been adding features to it.

There's nothing fancy or pretty here. All gray-scale 40x25 column text mode. No graphics or sound except beep. It has a built-in full-screen text editor with control key bindings similar to WordStar's, and a compiler which converts a friendly typeless programming language into bytecode for a virtual machine with 52 instructions.

The .zip comes with the IDE, NINE.COM, and a conversion utility CONVERT.COM which compresses a program text file into a format Nine accepts. Also included is MANUAL.TXT, README.TXT, and a few sample programs.

I'd appreciate any feedback. Thank you!