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* [[:Category: DOS Games|Games released for DOS]].
 
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==Music & Sound==
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==Versions==
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From version 5.0 and up, DOS included a crippled version of the Quick BASIC programming language as well as a few example programs to help showcase the language. Two of those programs, [[QBasic Gorillas (DOS)]] and Nibbles, included music. The music of QBasic Gorillas has been recorded, but since Nibbles uses the same music as Gorillas, it won't be recorded.
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==Music and Sound==
 
Since DOS is a software platform, it does not have any built-in sound capabilities, but it does assume any computer running it has a [[PC Speaker]]. However, the majority of third-party sound hardware devices manufactured in the late 1980s and early 1990s supported DOS. Some of the more popular audio devices include:
 
Since DOS is a software platform, it does not have any built-in sound capabilities, but it does assume any computer running it has a [[PC Speaker]]. However, the majority of third-party sound hardware devices manufactured in the late 1980s and early 1990s supported DOS. Some of the more popular audio devices include:
  
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* [[PCjr]]
 
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* [[Tandy 1000]]
 
* [[Tandy 1000]]
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==Bundled Games==
 
From version 5.0 and up, DOS included a crippled version of the Quick BASIC programming language as well as a few example programs to help showcase the language. Two of those programs, Nibbles and [[QBasic Gorillas (DOS)]], included music. Nibbles only features a single tune which is repeated in QBasic Gorillas, so a soundtrack has not been recorded for that game.
 
  
 
==Links==
 
==Links==
 
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_DOS en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_DOS] - Wikipedia.
 
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_DOS en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_DOS] - Wikipedia.

Revision as of 15:01, 8 December 2015

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Disk Operating System
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Released: 1981-08-??
Discontinued: 2001-12-31
Developer: Microsoft
Type: Software
Microsoft's DOS (Disk Operating System) is one of the most popular operating systems for the IBM standard PC hardware through the 1980s and early 1990s. It was originally released in 1982, and steadily updated until the last standalone version of 6.22 was released in 1994. Successive versions of DOS were merely used as a bootstrapping program for Windows 95 and above. Support for DOS was officially discontinued on December 31, 2001, although this was for the Windows XP version of DOS, not the old 6.22 version.

There are many other similar disk operating systems like DR-DOS and PC-DOS, which were designed as affordable competitors of MS-DOS. Since these OSs are effectively clones of MS-DOS, they will not be covered in this Wiki.

Games

Versions

From version 5.0 and up, DOS included a crippled version of the Quick BASIC programming language as well as a few example programs to help showcase the language. Two of those programs, QBasic Gorillas (DOS) and Nibbles, included music. The music of QBasic Gorillas has been recorded, but since Nibbles uses the same music as Gorillas, it won't be recorded.

Music and Sound

Since DOS is a software platform, it does not have any built-in sound capabilities, but it does assume any computer running it has a PC Speaker. However, the majority of third-party sound hardware devices manufactured in the late 1980s and early 1990s supported DOS. Some of the more popular audio devices include:

Platforms

DOS was the primary platform for the PC gaming market in North America for the majority of the life of MS-DOS. Some of the more popular computer lines that used MS-DOS include:

Links