• @[email protected]
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      3724 days ago

      I’m sure the only reason why they waited this long is that they needed to make sure it’s old enough that the companies they stole code from can’t sue.

    • MacN'Cheezus
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      1423 days ago

      Can’t wait for the OSS community to fork it and build some cool shit on top of this /s

      • @[email protected]
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        523 days ago

        Well, this should be incredibly useful for Dosbox and improving playability of retro games, right?

        • MacN'Cheezus
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          423 days ago

          Perhaps, if there are some very specific compatibility issues that haven’t been solved yet.

          That said, MS-DOS 4 isn’t even the most recent version, the last one was 6.22 to my knowledge, and IIRC a lot of games tended to require at least version 5 or 6.

        • @[email protected]
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          123 days ago

          2 things, the project exists and is called ReactOS. 2nd, the kernel in the versions of Windows anyone thinks about is the NT kernel which they will never release to be open source. The NT Kernel was built specifically so that they didn’t have to use DOS to make Windows work.

    • AnIndefiniteArticle
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      824 days ago

      And look at all of they ways they are extending the open source community via github and copilot!

      • @h3rm17
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        They sure are extinguishing any posible fear I may have about the absolutely destroying anything beautiful.