Jump to navigation
Jump to search
(Created) |
(adding very basic description of what MS-DOS is) |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
{{system stub}} | {{system stub}} | ||
:''<big>For help running MS-DOS games on modern operating systems, see the '''[[DOSBox]]''' guide.</big>'' | |||
{{Wikipedia}} | |||
MS-DOS is an operating system marketed by [[Microsoft]]. As a result of being distributed on IBM systems (under the name PC-DOS) it soon became immensely successful, and the platform of choice for computer games. Even after the release of [[Windows 9x|Windows 95]] many games were still produced primarily for MS-DOS, albeit including some additional features when run under Windows. Once [[wp:DirectX|DirectX]] gained widespread support, MS-DOS was quickly abandoned by developers. | |||
On more modern versions of Windows many MS-DOS games will not run correctly, and, just as often, many will not run at all. One popular solution for running these games correctly is the open-source emulator [[DOSBox]]. | |||
[[Category:Systems]] | [[Category:Systems]] | ||
[[Category:Microsoft]] | [[Category:Microsoft]] | ||
[[Category:PC]] | [[Category:PC]] | ||