GeekDOS 20.03
GeekDOS is a FreeDOS based operating system, designed to be relatively easy to use and fit on a single floppy.
GeekDOS is intended for old computers, or new computers attempting to play old MS-DOS based games. GeekDOS is and always will be free software, and you may do whatever you wish with your copy of the OS. It includes a GUI, the now open source DOS navigator, along with everything you would expect in a DOS based OS, and much you may not.
· Games are now listed in a folder called GAMES.
· The installer supports (but does not require) the ability to format a hard disk partition before it installs.
· An unformat utility was added to GeekDOS 19.04 to allow you to unformat a drive you accidentally formatted.
· There is now two new color schemes for the menus in the DOS navigator GUI included with GeekDOS, blue menus and pink fever.
· Junk files such as files.bbs and file_id.diz have been removed from this release.
· There is a more beautiful CD boot sequence that shows the word GeekDOS in ASCII art.
· Since the CD says welcome to GeekDOS, the boot sequence now says “Starting GeekDOS…” with more details below.
· Some pre-set aliases allow you to do some tasks faster and easier. To shut down you system, instead of typing “C:\shutdown s” you would type halt or poweroff like in a Linux based machine. You can also type reboot to restart the machine. paint can now be invoked from any directory at the prompt, and so can mpx…