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Microsoft Just Released MS-DOS Source Code! (github.com)

submitted 1 year ago by pastermil@sh.itjust.works to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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[–] Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Look at them, embracing open source like this, how wonderful.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 37 points 1 year ago

I'm sure the only reason why they waited this long is that they needed to make sure it's old enough that the companies they stole code from can't sue.

[–] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can't wait for the OSS community to fork it and build some cool shit on top of this /s

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, this should be incredibly useful for Dosbox and improving playability of retro games, right?

[–] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 4 points 1 year ago

Perhaps, if there are some very specific compatibility issues that haven't been solved yet.

That said, MS-DOS 4 isn't even the most recent version, the last one was 6.22 to my knowledge, and IIRC a lot of games tended to require at least version 5 or 6.