MS-DOS download

..well..yes..I need it, but i have no idea where to get it..I did google for it but not much luck..is it abandonware or something? if so, where i can get it..i really need it for some work with micro boards based on 486DX and it had Ms-Dos 5.0...

I very much doubt it.

You could try FreeDOS.

Isnt DR-Dos freeware?

Have you tried DOSBox?

DOSBox (x86 Emulator with DOS)

I've used it before to get a DOS program (that used serial COM port access) working in Windows Vista.

I need MS-Dos since its microboard computer and it was used for molding machine control..old microboard is dead so new one has arrived, but not provided with MS-DOS installation used in previous one..so I thought i can download it for free..i thought its abandonware..how to get it if not abandonware anyway?

Not sure what this is:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=96cc3197-b7e5-4b31-badb-ddaac771295f&displaylang=en

"step-up"? Possibly an upgrade from older version to the 6.22 release?

if you have a win98 setup disk, it came with a version of DOS on it alongside windows (V 7.10 I think)

Why do you need DOS?

SpaceMan94 - read his earlier posts above and he explains why he needs DOS

Abandoneware is really just a phrase pirates use to feel better about themselves. From a legal point of view, there's no such thing.

There's still some places selling MSDOS, such as:
http://www.emsps.com/oldtools/msdos.htm

Anyway -- if you replaced a controller board, the old drive with your existing DOS installation ought to still work in the new system as well?

@xlsior
yes..it was previously installed MS-DOS 5.0, and i do have all necessary proggies except MS-DOS itself, system using parallel port for RS232 MUX and one RS232 for connection with MCU unit so its all fine, I have checked, only microboard is down due power supply failure(they rigged it with 'home made' power supply +/-12 v)

I feel for you,... last year I replaced an old DOS system that was used for timing and scoring at a racetrack. All custom stuff and pretty pricey, so they needed a new DOS system to throw the interface into.

I ended up finding MS-DOS from a guy I know that does computer repairs. I know that doesn't help much, but it's (DOS) still out there.

For the DOS program if I install it on my computer will it replace microsoft xp with DOS or will it act like a seperate program?

It replaces XP.

(windows 95 came with DOS 7.0 and ran on top of that, Windows 98 came with DOS 7.1.

Windows 9x was really a graphical shell on top of the DOS operating system. Windows 2000, XP and Vista no longer run on top of DOS but are an actual operating system by themselves. Installing DOS on a machine with XP would completely break XP itself)

yup,... what ^^^ said

really, DOS is a major pain to deal with anyways, and the only reason you really would need to bother is due to old hardware configurations and custom stuff.

If you just want to play with DOS or run an old DOS game, then something like DOSbox is the way to go.

Are you sure xlsior? If you install it on a seperate partition and dual boot...

Also Windows 95/98 wasn't exactly nothing but a graphical shell on top of DOS, but it wasn't independant either. It was kind of a hybrid system.

Of course, you can always dual boot... But you'd need to install DOS first, since otherwise it would blow up the windows boot loader.

Install DOS, then install windows on a different partition. Kind of pointless though, unless you have some very specialistic needs DOS is pretty much dead for all intents and purposes.

I've used DOS quite recently to install Windows XP on a laptop with no CD-ROM drive, no floppy drive, and no ability to boot from LAN/USB.

It involved putting the laptop hard drive in another PC, repartitioning the drive and installing DOS on the smaller partition, together with the setup files for XP, before putting the drive back in the laptop, booting into DOS and launching setup from there. Quite a bit of fannying about, but it worked, and the DOS partition remains so you still have access to the system even if Windows won't boot for some reason one day.

I'd be very interested to know how you did this Gfk as I have tried that before and it failed, as Windows XP Setup cannot be run as a DOS application. I have done this with Windows 98 but it did not work with XP.

www.dosbox.com

I use it all the time to run DOS games, and it works great.

I would think it would work for what you want it to.


WERDNA

duhh....
time to blank it myself.

>Pharmhaus<

You do realize that you are exposing Blitz Research to legal trouble by turning this forum into a piracy website?

It was a couple of months back but I think I just copied the I386(?) folder into the DOS partition, and ran the setup program which was in there.

Naughty Alien try here