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Virtual OS Museum: Relive Computing's Past, Today!

Remember that first bewildering, yet exciting, encounter with Linux? The Virtual OS Museum lets you not only revisit that moment but step back even further, letting you run classic operating systems right on your modern machine.

5 min read 2 days, 23 hours ago
Screenshot of MS-DOS source code files in a GitHub repository.
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Rebuilding MS-DOS: A 40-Year-Old Codebase Demands 21st-Century Hacks

Microsoft has released what it claims is the earliest discovered source code for MS-DOS. But don't expect to just `make` it work.

6 min read 1 month ago
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Dreamcast's Forgotten VMU Gets a Linux Lifeline: VMUFAT Driver Proposal

Picture this: your dusty Sega Dreamcast's Visual Memory Unit, that little flash card with games and saves, suddenly readable on a modern Linux rig. VMUFAT, a proposed kernel driver, makes it happen — but is anyone actually asking for it?

5 min read 1 month, 3 weeks ago

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