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Grand MS-DOS Gaming General MIDI Showdown (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-15 | by John Novak | get Roland SC-55 Sound Canvas reissue → | tags: roland sc-55, yamaha mu80, general midi

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Ask HN: 3.5 inch diskette read errors, would a period correct drive do better? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-07 | get Greaseweazle V4 floppy drive controller → | tags: 3.5 inch floppy, ddrescue, dos software

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Things 3.23 update now available with major repeating to-do improvements (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-19 | by Zac Hall | tags: things, cultured code, repeating to-dos

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The little-known winstart.bat batch file (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | by Raymond Chen | tags: winstart.bat, autoexec.bat, virtual machine manager

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Donkey.bas is 45 Years Old – 131 line of Glory (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-13 | tags: donkey.bas, ibm pc, bill gates

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Turbo Pascal on CP/M, MSX-DOS and MS-DOS (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: pascal, msx-dos, niklaus wirth

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Turbo Pascal on CP/M, MSX-DOS and MS-DOS – Pascal for Small Machines (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: pascal, niklaus wirth, msx-dos

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AttoChess, a complete, playable chess program for 16-bit x86 DOS in 278 bytes (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-16 | tags: chess, attochess, dos

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HamsterOS jams a 32-bit GUI operating system in a single 1.44 MB floppy disk — retro OS for 386-era hardware should make for easy living with DOS machines and software (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-30 | by Bruno Ferreira | get RetroPie Raspberry Pi Kit → | tags: hamsteros, 386 hardware, dos software

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WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-27 | get Vintage Word Processor Software → | tags: wordstar, robert j. sawyer, ms-dos

11.

David Ahl's Basic Computer Games Ported to C (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-21 | get C Programming Book → | tags: gw-basic, david ahl, creative computing

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DOS Game "F-15 Strike Eagle II" reversing project needs DOS test pilots (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-20 | by Neuviemeporte'S Journal | get DOSBox Emulator Software → | tags: f-15 strike eagle ii, dos, reverse engineering

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HTTP/2 Bomb Attacks Put Telcos, Healthcare Orgs at Risk (darkreading.com)

2026-06-15 | get HTTP/2 Security Toolkit → | tags: http/2, dos, telcos

14.

Running DOS on Behringers DDX3216 with a DIY x86-Bios from Scratch (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-13 | tags: behringer, ddx3216, amd elan sc300

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CP/M-86 & MS-DOS Cross Development Environment (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-31 | get MS-DOS Emulator for PC → | tags: cpm-z80, ms-dos, aztec-c

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Multicore suppport for DOS is real – partly (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-31 | by Native Smp Dos Like Os Using Dos Code | get DOSBox Emulator → | tags: ms dos, multicore support, os development

17.

Childhood Computing (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-24 | get Kids Coding Starter Kit → | tags: ibm, ms-dos, logo

18.

Microsoft open-sources “the earliest DOS source code discovered to date” (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-24 | get Microsoft MS-DOS Source Code → | tags: ms-dos, microsoft, 86-dos

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Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date" (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-24 | get Microsoft MS-DOS Source Code Kit → | tags: ms-dos, microsoft, 86-dos

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z386: An Open-Source 80386 Built Around Original Microcode (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-23 | by Retro Gaming | get Intel 80386 Processor Kit → | tags: z386, intel, microcode

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LAN-LOK: The Antarctic DOS Sabotage Game Lost for 34 Years (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-21 | by Chris Hanson | get LAN-LOK Security Lock → | tags: antarctica, lan-lok, palmer station

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DOS Zone (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-20 | get DOSBox Emulator → | tags: dos.zone, classic games, ad-free

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What is the history of the ERROR_ARENA_TRASHED error code? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-20 | by Raymond Chen | get Memory Management Debugging Tool → | tags: ms-dos, error code 7, error_arena_trashed

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Show HN: TRUST – Coding Rust like it's 1989 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-07 | get Rust Programming Book → | tags: rust, cargo, dos

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Show HN: Trust – Coding Rust like it's 1989 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-07 | get Rust Programming Book → | tags: rust, cargo, trust

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Ars Asks: Share your shell and show us your tricked-out terminals! (arstechnica.com)

2026-05-06 | get USB Type-C Hub → | tags: bash, windows, ms-dos

27.

How do I inform Windows that I'm writing a binary file? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-05 | by Raymond Chen | get Hexadecimal Editor Software → | tags: windows, binary mode, ms-dos

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45 years later, earliest DOS source code transcribed from a stack of old printouts found in a garage — code was open-sourced to mark 86-DOS 1.00’s anniversary (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-02 | by Mark Tyson | get MS-DOS 1.0 Collector's Edition → | tags: dos, microsoft, tim paterson

29.

Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables? (2015) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-02 | by Raymond Chen | tags: ms-dos, environment variables, cp/m

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Microsoft releases the earliest DOS source code ever discovered as open source (techspot.com)

2026-04-30 | get MS-DOS Source Code Book → | tags: microsoft, dos, paterson listings