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Screenshot of MS-DOS source code files in a GitHub repository.

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 3 weeks, 2 days 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, 2 weeks ago

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Rebuilding MS-DOS: A 40-Year-Old Codebase Demands 21st-Century Hacks

Dreamcast's Forgotten VMU Gets a Linux Lifeline: VMUFAT Driver Proposal