DOS
136 items from balintkissdev/awesome-dos ★640
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How Oldschool Sound/Music worked - by 8-bit Guy youtube.com
Video about PC speaker, FM synthesizers in NES and Commodore 64, Yamaha OPL chip in AdLib and Sound Blaster sound cards, PCM samples and MOD music.
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CGA Graphics - Not as bad as you thought! - by 8-bit Guy youtube.com
History and technical details about IBM's CGA system. Also describes 4-color RGBI and 16-color Composite modes.
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Porting Retro City Rampage to MS-DOS: From PS4 to 1.44MB Floppy youtube.com
GDC talk. Brian Provinciano's presentation on porting Retro City Rampage from PlayStation 4 to DOS. Topics include optimization, using interrupts, timing, PC speaker sound, joystick, memory management and fixed-point math.
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Why does DOS use 8.3 Filenames? - Nostalgia Nerd youtube.com
Video about the 8.3 limitation of filenames under DOS, FAT partitioning scheme, NTFS, VFAT, FatGo, and LFN.EXE.
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LGR - Evolution of PC Audio - As Told by Secret of Monkey Island youtube.com
Comparison of playing the intro theme of Secret of Monkey Island through PC speaker, IBM PCjr/Tandy, AdLib, Game Blaster, Roland LAPC-1/MT-32, Gravis Ultrasound, Roland SCC-1 MIDI, SB16 Waveblaster/AWE32 and CD quality digital audio.
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What is DOS Protected Mode? / DOS Extenders- Nostalgia Nerd youtube.com
Video about how PC memory looks like, conventional memory, extender memory and reasons for the need of DOS Protected Mode Interface (DPMI) and extenders like DOS/4GW.
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MS-DOS has been Open-Sourced! We Build and Run it! - Dave's Garage youtube.com
Former Microsoft employee David Plummer tells stories about development of MS-DOS and compiles MS-DOS 4.00 source code which has been open-sourced by Microsoft.
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DOS Executables Explained - Nostalgia Nerd youtube.com
Video about DOS executable formats including .COM, .BAT and .EXE.
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Why DOS Was (and Is) a Thing - FreeDOS youtube.com
Historical talk starting from Unix, going through CPM, DOS 1.x, DOS 2.x, DOS 3.x, DOS 4.x, DOS 6.x, Windows 3.1, Windows 95 and ending with FreeDOS.
