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Dex- 05-27-2006
MiniDOS
MiniDOS is a very small Dos that i am working on, its less than 2k, but has CLI, can load and run exe/com files, implements some int 21h and int 20h functions, so can run some old dos games, does commands like "DIR","TIME", "DATE" etc. It can load Dex4u and should work OK with the MenuetOS dos loader, so should beable to load Menuet. But it will also make a good tut for people who want to learn OS dev. As it come with welcommented fasm source code. Here: is the OS and source code http://www.dex4u.com/Dos4u/MiniDos.zip Here is a image for qemu http://www.dex4u.com/Dos4u/MdosQemu.zip ScreenShot of MiniDOS running a dos game. PS: At less than 2K, is it the worlds smallest useable dos ?.

Mario79- 05-28-2006

Dex Very well. I shall check up it with the loader, altered by me, meosload.com for USB flash of memory. If it will work, we shall receive clean loading for the license GPL. Respect and good luck.

Dex- 05-28-2006

Cool, let me know how you get on.

hidnplayr- 05-28-2006

Cool! Did you know microsoft already made this? Yes, in assembler :p

Cool Dude 2k- 05-29-2006

Awesome. Its very nice. :)

Dex- 05-29-2006

Cool! Did you know microsoft already made this? Yes, in assembler :p You mean i am not the first :shock:. Its more as a tut for beginner OS devs, that can do something usefull other than print "Hello world!" :wink:

Mario79- 05-29-2006

Dex It is very a pity, but has failed. Two reasons: 1) meosload.com - does not work in MiniDOS 2) boot sector MiniDOS work with Fat12, it is necessary that the start occured from FAT16. Probably, later you can correct these things. Good luck.

Dex- 05-29-2006

Thanks Mario79, i will take a look at whats need and fix it.

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