DOSContainer

Roadmap to v3.00

📅 2025-08-13  · ✍️ Bas v.d. Wiel  ·  🏷 announcement

The roadmap to DOSContainer v3.00 is an ambitious one for a project that’s only maintained by a single person in part-time. A number of features is on the cooker right now, which will take quite a lot of time before completion. Here they are in some more detail.

Support PC-DOS 3.00

PC-DOS 3.00 is just another version of the IBM-branch of DOS. Supporting that, in and of itself, is not that much of a problem. It’s a matter of adding boot sector binaries, system files, and to make branches in the code where data structures get serialized into OS-specific on-disk bytes. The most work goes into figuring out whether or not those on-disk bytes are different at all, for which IBM’s docs are not the most reliable source.

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Release announcement: v2.00

📅 2025-07-23  · ✍️ Bas v.d. Wiel  ·  🏷 announcement

The previous releases were made silently and source-only because the turbulent state of flux the project is still in. This time I’m making an official announcement: version 2.00 just finished building and is ready for use. This version covers IBM PC-DOS 1.00, 1.10 and 2.00 on floppies and hard disk images suitable for their time period. This version is ideal if you want to create disk images for the original IBM 5150 or XT with the proper disk geometries and OS system files in the right place.

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