Do you miss DOS? (Get it: MS-DOS? Ha!) You probably don’t. If you knew what I know about DOS, you’d wake up every day and pray thanks to the computer gods that it’s no longer around. But, then again, DOS had some really good software. There are also some pioneering games that I remember fondly.
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\nWindows XP and Windows Vista come with a Command Prompt. It’s not DOS. The Command Prompt is simply a text-based shell similar to DOS. But since Windows ME, the command shell is a program, not an operating system. All that old DOS software that you used might work in the Command Prompt window, but probably won’t.<\/p>\n
So whether you’re longing for the days of DOS or you need<\/em> to run old DOS software, there is a solution available.<\/p>\n The DOSBox project<\/em> attempts to bring a stable DOS environment to a variety of modern operating systems.<\/p>\n Yeah, that’s funny: stable DOS environment<\/em>. Regardless, you can visit the DOSBox web site<\/a> and download a copy of DOSBox for your Windows, Linux, or even Mac computer. Now it’s not really DOS, but it does run ancient DOS programs.<\/p>\n