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DOSBox is a free and open-source emulator which runs software for MS-DOS compatible disk operating systems—primarily video games.[1]

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  1. 138 relations: Activision Blizzard, Ad Lib, Inc., Advanced Power Management, API, ARM architecture family, Ars Technica, Association for Computing Machinery, AUTOEXEC.BAT, BeOS, Bethesda Softworks, Bilinear interpolation, Binary translation, BIOS interrupt call, Break key, C++, Cengage Group, Central processing unit, Charles III University of Madrid, Charles University, Codec, Color Graphics Adapter, COMMAND.COM, Commander Keen, Compatibility layer, Console application, Covox Speech Thing, CRC Press, Debian, DirectDraw, DOS, EA (app), Eötvös Loránd University, Electronic Arts, Emscripten, Emulator, Enhanced Graphics Adapter, Eurogamer, Fedora Linux, Filename extension, Free and open-source software, Free Software Magazine, FreeBSD, Frontend and backend, Game port, Gamepad, Gentoo Linux, GitHub, GNU General Public License, GOG.com, Gravis UltraSound, ... Expand index (88 more) »

  2. BeOS software
  3. DOS emulators
  4. Free emulation software
  5. Free software that uses SDL
  6. MacOS emulation software
  7. RISC OS emulation software
  8. Solaris software
  9. Windows emulation software
  10. X86 emulators

Activision Blizzard

Activision Blizzard, Inc. is an American video game holding company based in Santa Monica, California.

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Ad Lib, Inc.

Ad Lib, Inc. was a Canadian manufacturer of sound cards and other computer equipment founded by Martin Prevel, a former professor of music and vice-dean of the music department at the Université Laval.

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Advanced Power Management

Advanced power management (APM) is a technical standard for power management developed by Intel and Microsoft and released in 1992 which enables an operating system running an IBM-compatible personal computer to work with the BIOS (part of the computer's firmware) to achieve power management.

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API

An is a way for two or more computer programs or components to communicate with each other.

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ARM architecture family

ARM (stylised in lowercase as arm, formerly an acronym for Advanced RISC Machines and originally Acorn RISC Machine) is a family of RISC instruction set architectures (ISAs) for computer processors.

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Ars Technica

Ars Technica is a website covering news and opinions in technology, science, politics, and society, created by Ken Fisher and Jon Stokes in 1998.

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Association for Computing Machinery

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a US-based international learned society for computing.

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AUTOEXEC.BAT

AUTOEXEC.BAT is a system file that was originally on DOS-type operating systems.

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BeOS

BeOS is a discontinued operating system for personal computers that was developed by Be Inc. It was conceived for the company's BeBox personal computer which was released in 1995.

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Bethesda Softworks

Bethesda Softworks LLC is an American video game publisher based in Rockville, Maryland.

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Bilinear interpolation

In mathematics, bilinear interpolation is a method for interpolating functions of two variables (e.g., x and y) using repeated linear interpolation.

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Binary translation

In computing, binary translation is a form of binary recompilation where sequences of instructions are translated from a source instruction set to the target instruction set.

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BIOS interrupt call

BIOS implementations provide interrupts that can be invoked by operating systems and application programs to use the facilities of the firmware on IBM PC compatible computers.

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Break key

The Break key (or the symbol ⎉) of a computer keyboard refers to breaking a telegraph circuit and originated with 19th century practice.

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C++

C++ (pronounced "C plus plus" and sometimes abbreviated as CPP) is a high-level, general-purpose programming language created by Danish computer scientist Bjarne Stroustrup.

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Cengage Group

Cengage Group is an American educational content, technology, and services company for higher education, K–12, professional, and library markets.

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Central processing unit

A central processing unit (CPU), also called a central processor, main processor, or just processor, is the most important processor in a given computer.

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Charles III University of Madrid

University Charles III of Madrid (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) (UC3M) is a public university in the Community of Madrid, Spain.

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Charles University

Charles University (CUNI; Univerzita Karlova, UK; Universitas Carolina; Karls-Universität), or historically as the University of Prague (Universitas Pragensis), is the largest and best-ranked university in the Czech Republic. It is one of the oldest universities in the world in continuous operation, the first university north of the Alps and east of Paris.

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Codec

A codec is a device or computer program that encodes or decodes a data stream or signal.

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Color Graphics Adapter

The Color Graphics Adapter (CGA), originally also called the Color/Graphics Adapter or IBM Color/Graphics Monitor Adapter, introduced in 1981, was IBM's first color graphics card for the IBM PC and established a de facto computer display standard.

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COMMAND.COM

COMMAND.COM is the default command-line interpreter for MS-DOS, Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows Me.

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Commander Keen

Commander Keen is a series of side-scrolling platform video games developed primarily by id Software.

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Compatibility layer

In software engineering, a compatibility layer is an interface that allows binaries for a legacy or foreign system to run on a host system.

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Console application

A console application or command-line program is a computer program (applications or utilities) designed to be used via a text-only user interface, such as a text terminal, the command-line interface of some operating systems (Unix, DOS, etc.) or the text-based interface included with most graphical user interface (GUI) operating systems, such as the Windows Console in Microsoft Windows, the Terminal in macOS, and xterm in Unix.

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Covox Speech Thing

The Covox Speech Thing is an external digital-to-analog converter (DAC) that plugs into the parallel printer port of a PC.

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CRC Press

The CRC Press, LLC is an American publishing group that specializes in producing technical books.

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Debian

Debian, also known as Debian GNU/Linux, is a Linux distribution composed of free and open-source software and optionally non-free firmware or software developed by the community-supported Debian Project, which was established by Ian Murdock on August 16, 1993.

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DirectDraw

DirectDraw (ddraw.dll) is an API that used to be a part of Microsoft's DirectX API.

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DOS

DOS is a family of disk-based operating systems for IBM PC compatible computers.

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EA (app)

EA, also known as EA Desktop and formerly known as Origin, is a digital distribution platform for Microsoft Windows and macOS, developed by Electronic Arts for purchasing and playing video games.

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Eötvös Loránd University

Eötvös Loránd University (Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, ELTE, also known as University of Budapest) is a Hungarian public research university based in Budapest.

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Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) is an American video game company headquartered in Redwood City, California.

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Emscripten

Emscripten is an LLVM/Clang-based compiler that compiles C and C++ source code to WebAssembly, primarily for execution in web browsers.

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Emulator

In computing, an emulator is hardware or software that enables one computer system (called the host) to behave like another computer system (called the guest).

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Enhanced Graphics Adapter

The Enhanced Graphics Adapter (EGA) is an IBM PC graphics adapter and de facto computer display standard from 1984 that superseded the CGA standard introduced with the original IBM PC, and was itself superseded by the VGA standard in 1987.

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Eurogamer

Eurogamer is a British video game journalism website launched in 1999 alongside parent company Gamer Network.

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Fedora Linux

Fedora Linux is a Linux distribution developed by the Fedora Project.

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Filename extension

A filename extension, file name extension or file extension is a suffix to the name of a computer file (for example,.txt,.docx,.md).

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Free and open-source software

Free and open-source software (FOSS) is software that is available under a license that grants the right to use, modify, and distribute the software, modified or not, to everyone free of charge.

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Free Software Magazine

Free Software Magazine (also known as FSM and originally titled The Open Voice) is a Web site that produces a (generally bi-monthly) mostly free-content online magazine about free software.

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FreeBSD

FreeBSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system descended from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD).

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Frontend and backend

In software engineering, the terms frontend and backend (sometimes written as back end or back-end) refer to the separation of concerns between the presentation layer (frontend), and the data access layer (backend) of a piece of software, or the physical infrastructure or hardware.

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Game port

The game port is a device port that was found on IBM PC compatible and other computer systems throughout the 1980s and 1990s.

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Gamepad

A gamepad is a type of video game controller held in two hands, where the fingers (especially thumbs) are used to provide input.

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Gentoo Linux

Gentoo Linux (pronounced) is a Linux distribution built using the Portage package management system. DOSBox and Gentoo Linux are 2002 software.

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GitHub

GitHub is a developer platform that allows developers to create, store, manage and share their code.

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GNU General Public License

The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a series of widely used free software licenses, or copyleft, that guarantee end users the four freedoms to run, study, share, and modify the software.

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GOG.com

GOG.com (formerly Good Old Games) is a digital distribution platform for video games and films.

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Gravis UltraSound

The Gravis UltraSound or GUS is a sound card for the IBM PC compatible system platform, made by Canada-based Advanced Gravis Computer Technology Ltd.

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Hack.lu

hack.lu (also written as HACKLU) is a yearly computer security conference held in Luxembourg that brings together a variety of people interested in information security.

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Hercules Graphics Card

The Hercules Graphics Card (HGC) is a computer graphics controller formerly made by Hercules Computer Technology, Inc. that combines IBM's text-only MDA display standard with a bitmapped graphics mode, also offering a parallel printer port.

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Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute

The Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII) was a research and teaching institute at the University of Glasgow in Scotland.

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IBM Monochrome Display Adapter

The Monochrome Display Adapter (MDA, also MDA card, Monochrome Display and Printer Adapter, MDPA) is IBM's standard video display card and computer display standard for the IBM PC introduced in 1981.

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Id Software

id Software LLC is an American video game developer based in Richardson, Texas.

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IGN

IGN is an American video game and entertainment media website operated by IGN Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Ziff Davis, Inc.

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Informa

Informa plc is a British publishing, business intelligence, and exhibitions group based in London, England.

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Instruction set architecture

In computer science, an instruction set architecture (ISA) is an abstract model that generally defines how software controls the CPU in a computer or a family of computers.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is an American nonprofit digital library founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle.

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Internet protocol suite

The Internet protocol suite, commonly known as TCP/IP, is a framework for organizing the set of communication protocols used in the Internet and similar computer networks according to functional criteria.

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Internetwork Packet Exchange

Internetwork Packet Exchange (IPX) is the network-layer protocol in the IPX/SPX protocol suite.

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JavaScript

JavaScript, often abbreviated as JS, is a programming language and core technology of the Web, alongside HTML and CSS.

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Joystick

A joystick, sometimes called a flight stick, is an input device consisting of a stick that pivots on a base and reports its angle or direction to the device it is controlling.

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Kajaani University of Applied Sciences

Kajaani University of Applied Sciences (KAMK, in Finnish: Kajaanin ammattikorkeakoulu) is a university of applied sciences located in the town of Kajaani.

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Linux

Linux is both an open-source Unix-like kernel and a generic name for a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds.

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Local area network

A local area network (LAN) is a computer network that interconnects computers within a limited area such as a residence, school, laboratory, university campus or office building.

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Long filename

Long filename (LFN) support is Microsoft's backward-compatible extension of the 8.3 filename (short filename) naming scheme used in DOS.

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Lucasfilm Games

Lucasfilm Games (known as LucasArts between 1990 and 2021) is an American video game licensor and a subsidiary of Lucasfilm.

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MacOS

macOS, originally Mac OS X, previously shortened as OS X, is an operating system developed and marketed by Apple since 2001.

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Maximum PC

Maximum PC, formerly known as boot, is an American magazine and website published by Future US.

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McGraw Hill Education

McGraw Hill is an American publishing company for educational content, software, and services for pre-K through postgraduate education.

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Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a product line of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft.

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MIDI

MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a technical standard that describes a communication protocol, digital interface, and electrical connectors that connect a wide variety of electronic musical instruments, computers, and related audio devices for playing, editing, and recording music.

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Mount (computing)

Mounting is a process by which a computer's operating system makes files and directories on a storage device (such as hard drive, CD-ROM, or network share) available for users to access via the computer's file system.

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MPU-401

The MPU-401, where MPU stands for MIDI Processing Unit, is an important but now obsolete interface for connecting MIDI-equipped electronic music hardware to personal computers.

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MS-DOS

MS-DOS (acronym for Microsoft Disk Operating System, also known as Microsoft DOS) is an operating system for x86-based personal computers mostly developed by Microsoft.

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Null modem

Null modem is a communication method to directly connect two DTEs (computer, terminal, printer, etc.) using an RS-232 serial cable.

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OpenGL

OpenGL (Open Graphics Library) is a cross-language, cross-platform application programming interface (API) for rendering 2D and 3D vector graphics.

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Operating environment

In computer software, an operating environment or integrated applications environment is the environment in which users run application software.

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Operating system

An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common services for computer programs.

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Oracle Solaris

Solaris is a proprietary Unix operating system originally developed by Sun Microsystems.

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PC Gamer

PC Gamer is a magazine and website founded in the United Kingdom in 1993 devoted to PC gaming and published monthly by Future plc.

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PC Games

PC Games is a monthly-released PC gaming magazine published by the Computec Media GmbH in Germany.

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PC speaker

A PC speaker is a loudspeaker built into some IBM PC compatible computers.

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PC World

PC World (stylized as PCWorld) is a global computer magazine published monthly by IDG.

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PCGamesN

PCGamesN is a British website with articles about PC gaming and hardware.

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Pearson Education

Pearson Education, known since 2011 as simply Pearson, is the educational publishing and services subsidiary of the international corporation Pearson plc.

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Plain text

In computing, plain text is a loose term for data (e.g. file contents) that represent only characters of readable material but not its graphical representation nor other objects (floating-point numbers, images, etc.). It may also include a limited number of "whitespace" characters that affect simple arrangement of text, such as spaces, line breaks, or tabulation characters.

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Polygon (website)

Polygon is an American entertainment website by Vox Media covering video games, movies, television, and other popular culture.

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Preservation and Long-term Access through Networked Services

The Preservation and Long-term Access through Networked Services (PLANETS) project addressed core digital preservation challenges.

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Protected mode

In computing, protected mode, also called protected virtual address mode, is an operational mode of x86-compatible central processing units (CPUs).

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Real mode

Real mode, also called real address mode, is an operating mode of all x86-compatible CPUs.

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Reduced instruction set computer

In electronics and computer science, a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) is a computer architecture designed to simplify the individual instructions given to the computer to accomplish tasks.

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RetroArch

RetroArch is a free and open-source, cross-platform frontend for emulators, game engines, video games, media players and other applications. DOSBox and RetroArch are DOS emulators and free emulation software.

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RISC OS

RISC OS is a computer operating system originally designed by Acorn Computers Ltd in Cambridge, England.

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Rock Paper Shotgun

Rock Paper Shotgun is a British video game journalism website.

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S3 Trio

The S3 Trio range were popular video cards for personal computers and were S3's first fully integrated graphics accelerators.

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Saved game

A saved game (also called a game save, savegame, savefile, save point, or simply save) is a piece of digitally stored information about the progress of a player in a video game.

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Shacknews

Shacknews is a website that hosts news, features, editorial content and forums relating to video games.

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Shell (computing)

In computing, a shell is a computer program that exposes an operating system's services to a human user or other programs.

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Sierra Entertainment

Sierra Entertainment, Inc. (formerly On-Line Systems and Sierra On-Line, Inc.) was an American video game developer and publisher founded in 1979 by Ken and Roberta Williams.

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SIGCSE

SIGCSE is the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Special Interest Group (SIG) on Computer Science Education (CSE), which provides a forum for educators to discuss issues related to the development, implementation, and/or evaluation of computing programs, curricula, and courses, as well as syllabi, laboratories, and other elements of teaching and pedagogy.

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SimCity 2000

SimCity 2000 is a city-building simulation video game jointly developed by Will Wright and Fred Haslam of Maxis.

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Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) is a cross-platform software development library designed to provide a hardware abstraction layer for computer multimedia hardware components.

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Sound Blaster

Sound Blaster is a family of sound cards and audio peripherals designed by Singaporean technology company Creative Technology (known in the US as Creative Labs).

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SourceForge

SourceForge is a web service that offers software consumers a centralized online location to control and manage open-source software projects and research business software.

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Springer Nature

Springer Nature or the Springer Nature Group is a German-British academic publishing company created by the May 2015 merger of Springer Science+Business Media and Holtzbrinck Publishing Group's Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan, and Macmillan Education.

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Star Wars: Dark Forces

Star Wars: Dark Forces is a first-person shooter video game developed and published by LucasArts.

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Star Wars: TIE Fighter

Star Wars: TIE Fighter is a 1994 Star Wars space flight simulator and space combat video game, a sequel in the ''Star Wars: X-Wing'' series.

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Steam (service)

Steam is a video game digital distribution service and storefront managed by Valve.

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Syndicate (1993 video game)

Syndicate is an isometric real-time tactical and strategic game from Bullfrog Productions created in 1993, and released for a variety of platforms beginning with the PC and Commodore Amiga.

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Tandy Graphics Adapter

Tandy Graphics Adapter (TGA, also Tandy graphics) is a computer display standard for the Tandy 1000 series of IBM PC compatibles, which has compatibility with the video subsystem of the IBM PCjr but became a standard in its own right.

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Tao ExDOS

Tao ExDOS is an emulator software application designed to allow users of old MS-DOS applications to run these applications on new operating systems such as Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows Terminal Server. DOSBox and Tao ExDOS are DOS emulators.

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TechRadar

TechRadar is an online publication owned by Future plc and focused on technology.

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The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall is an open-world, action role-playing game published by Bethesda Softworks.

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The Elder Scrolls: Arena is an open-world action role-playing video game developed and published by Bethesda Softworks.

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The Escapist (magazine)

The Escapist (formerly known as Escapist Magazine) is an American video game website and online magazine.

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Thrustmaster

Thrustmaster is an American designer, developer and manufacturer of joysticks, game controllers, and steering wheels for PCs and video gaming consoles.

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Time (magazine)

Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.

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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, Illinois, or University of Illinois) is a public land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United States.

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Valve Corporation

Valve Corporation, also known as Valve Software, is an American video game developer, publisher, and digital distribution company headquartered in Bellevue, Washington.

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VESA BIOS Extensions

VESA BIOS Extensions (VBE) is a VESA standard, currently at version 3, that defines the interface that can be used by software to access compliant video boards at high resolutions and bit depths.

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Video Graphics Array

Video Graphics Array (VGA) is a video display controller and accompanying de facto graphics standard, first introduced with the IBM PS/2 line of computers in 1987, which became ubiquitous in the IBM PC compatible industry within three years.

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Virtual DOS machine

Virtual DOS machines (VDM) refer to a technology that allows running 16-bit/32-bit DOS and 16-bit Windows programs when there is already another operating system running and controlling the hardware. DOSBox and Virtual DOS machine are DOS emulators.

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Virtual machine

In computing, a virtual machine (VM) is the virtualization or emulation of a computer system.

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WAV

Waveform Audio File Format (WAVE, or WAV due to its filename extension; pronounced or) is an audio file format standard for storing an audio bitstream on personal computers.

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Windows 2000

Windows 2000 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft and oriented towards businesses.

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Windows 3.0

Windows 3.0 is the third major release of Microsoft Windows, launched in 1990.

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Windows 9x

Windows 9x is a generic term referring to a series of Microsoft Windows computer operating systems produced from 1995 to 2000, which were based on the Windows 95 kernel and its underlying foundation of MS-DOS, both of which were updated in subsequent versions.

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Windows NT

Windows NT is a proprietary graphical operating system produced by Microsoft as part of its Windows product line, the first version of which, Windows NT 3.1, was released on July 27, 1993.

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Windows XP

Windows XP is a major release of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system.

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Wine (software)

Wine is a free and open-source compatibility layer to allow application software and computer games developed for Microsoft Windows to run on Unix-like operating systems. DOSBox and Wine (software) are Linux emulation software.

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Wired (magazine)

Wired (stylized in all caps) is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.

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Wolfenstein 3D

Wolfenstein 3D is a first-person shooter video game developed by id Software and published by Apogee Software and FormGen.

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XCOM

XCOM (originally called X-COM) is a science fiction video game franchise featuring an elite international organization tasked with countering alien invasions of Earth.

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2K (company)

2K is an American video game publisher based in Novato, California.

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4Players

4Players is a German online magazine that provides news and reviews of video games and related content.

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8.3 filename

An 8.3 filename (also called a short filename or SFN) is one that obeys the filename convention used by old versions of DOS and versions of Microsoft Windows prior to Windows 95 and Windows NT 3.5.

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See also

BeOS software

DOS emulators

Free emulation software

Free software that uses SDL

MacOS emulation software

RISC OS emulation software

Solaris software

Windows emulation software

X86 emulators

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOSBox

Also known as DOS Box, DOSBox builtin DOS, DiskOperatingSystemBox.

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