I love software rendering(jamesfmackenzie.com)
337 points by speckx | 212 comments
A personal blog post by James Mackenzie about his love of software-rendered 3D graphics in classic MS-DOS and PC games like Quake.
#ms-dos on Hacker News
8 stories tagged ms-dos, newest first.
Classic PC demoscene productions running natively in the browser(treylorswift.github.io)
133 points by adunk | 117 comments
A BBS-styled web page hosting classic 1990s PC demoscene productions like Unreal and Second Reality, recompiled to run natively in the browser.
Borland Turbo Basic(dosdays.co.uk)
92 points by sssilver | 50 comments
DOS Days page on the history of Borland's Turbo BASIC, a BASIC compiler for MS-DOS that started as BASIC/Z by Bob Zale and later became PowerBASIC.
Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?
233 points by mlaux | 240 comments
Ask HN post asking who still runs DOS machines, ISA-card instruments, or dongle-protected software for business, for research on keeping them running on modern hardware.
Microsoft open-sources “the earliest DOS source code discovered to date”(arstechnica.com)
501 points by DamnInteresting | 184 comments
Ars Technica article on Microsoft open-sourcing the earliest known DOS source code, from 86-DOS before Microsoft acquired it.
Why fastDOOM is fast(fabiensanglard.net)
638 points by wicket | 201 comments
Fabien Sanglard's blog post explaining the optimizations that make FastDOOM, a DOS port of Doom, run faster on 486-era PCs like the IBM PS/1.
The Space Quest II Master Disk Blunder(lanceewing.github.io)
610 points by smcameron | 172 comments
Lance Ewing blog post about unexpected data left on Space Quest II MS-DOS master disks that Sierra On-Line unknowingly shipped.
MS Teams channels cannot contain MS-DOS device names(learn.microsoft.com)
387 points by tapoxi | 281 comments
Microsoft Learn documentation listing limits and specifications for Microsoft Teams, including restrictions on channel names such as reserved MS-DOS device names.