# MS-DOS

An operating system from Microsoft that runs on early x86 era PCs. There were multiple flavors of DOS, but MS-DOS was the big one.

* [[:ibm_pc:open_watcom|Open Watcom]]

## How-Tos

### Mount difficult floppy images in DOSBox-X

If you can't mount a floppy image, try setting **Option: mount images read-only**

### Change the text mode in DOSBox-X

In `Z:TEXTUTIL` there are COM files you can run to change the text size.

## Reference

### DOS SDK

An SDK for DOS programs that lets you skip low level programming.

* https://github.com/Scalibq/DOS_SDK