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[[Seattle Computer Products]] released [[86-DOS]] in August 1980. It was licensed and then purchased by [[Microsoft]].   
[[Seattle Computer Products]] released [[86-DOS]] in August 1980. It was licensed and then purchased by [[Microsoft]].   


[[Microsoft]] extended it into [[PC DOS]] for [[IBM]], which was first released in August 1981, then further into [[MS-DOS]], which was first released in November 1987.
[[Microsoft]] extended it into [[PC DOS]] for [[IBM]], which was first released in August [[1981]], then further into [[MS-DOS]], which was first released in March [[1982]].


After those releases, DOS became a common shorthand for those operating systems and those that are compatible with them.
After those releases, DOS became a common shorthand for those operating systems and those that are compatible with them.


Other notable DOS-compatible operating systems include [[Multiuser DOS]], first released as Concurrent DOS (the third version of CP/M-86 with a PC-MODE module) in March 1984, and [[DR-DOS]], first released in May 1988. These operating systems were [[Digital Research]]'s successors to their popular [[CP/M]] operating system.
Other notable DOS-compatible operating systems include [[Multiuser DOS]], first released as Concurrent DOS (the third version of CP/M-86 with a PC-MODE module) in March [[1984]], and [[DR-DOS]], first released in May [[1988]]. These operating systems were [[Digital Research]]'s successors to their popular [[CP/M]] operating system.


DOS continues to be developed as free and open-source software as [[FreeDOS]], which was first released by [[Jim Hall]] and the FreeDOS team on January 12, 1998.
DOS continues to be developed as free and open-source software as [[FreeDOS]], which was first released by [[Jim Hall]] and the FreeDOS team on January 12, [[1998]].


==Retail games for DOS that are owned by the WEC Museum==
==Retail games for DOS that are owned by the WEC Museum==
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Riedel Software Productions]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Riedel Software Productions]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1990
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1990
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | October 30, 2019
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[BlueSky Software]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[BlueSky Software]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1991
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1991
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | August 13, 2019
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |  
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |  
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Lucasfilm Games|LucasArts]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[LucasArts]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1993
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1993
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | December 25, 1993
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[CD-ROM]] Talkie
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |  
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Lucasfilm Games]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1989
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[VGA]] [[Floppy disk|floppy]]. Included in ''[[LucasArts Classic Adventures]]''.
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Loom]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Lucasfilm Games]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1990
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[EGA]] [[Floppy disk|floppy]]. Included in ''[[LucasArts Classic Adventures]]''.
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[LucasArts Classic Adventures]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[LucasArts]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1992
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | Includes ''[[Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade]]'', ''[[Loom]]'', ''[[Maniac Mansion]]'', ''[[The Secret of Monkey Island]]'', and ''[[Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders]]''.
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Maniac Mansion (video game)|Maniac Mansion]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Lucasfilm Games]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1988
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[EGA]] enhanced. Included in ''[[LucasArts Classic Adventures]]''.
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Mega Man (DOS)|Mega Man]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Mega Man (DOS)|Mega Man]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Rozner Labs]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Rozner Labs]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1990
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1990
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | November 7, 2019
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | Included in ''[[Street Fighter Series]]''.
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Mega Man 3 (DOS)|Mega Man 3]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Mega Man 3 (DOS)|Mega Man 3]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Rozner Labs]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Rozner Labs]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1991
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1991
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | November 10, 2019
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | Included in ''[[Street Fighter Series]]''.
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |  
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[LucasArts]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1991
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | Included in ''[[Monkey Island Madness]]''.
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[The Secret of Monkey Island]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Lucasfilm Games]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1990
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[VGA]] [[floppy disk|floppy]]. Included in ''[[LucasArts Classic Adventures]]''.
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[The Secret of Monkey Island]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[LucasArts]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1996
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[VGA]] [[CD-ROM]]. Included in ''[[Monkey Island Madness]]''.
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Street Fighter (video game)|Street Fighter]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Street Fighter (video game)|Street Fighter]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Capcom]], [[Micro Talent]], [[Rozner Labs]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Capcom]], [[Micro Talent]], [[Rozner Labs]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1988
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1988
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | November 10, 2019
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | Included in ''[[Street Fighter Series]]''.
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Street Fighter II]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Street Fighter II: The World Warrior]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Rozner Labs]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Rozner Labs]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1993
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1993
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | November 10, 2019
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | Included in ''[[Street Fighter Series]]''.
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Street Fighter Series]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Street Fighter Series]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Capcom]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Capcom]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1993
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1994
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | November 10, 2019
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | Includes ''[[Mega Man (DOS)|Mega Man]]'', ''[[Mega Man 3 (DOS)|Mega Man 3]]'', ''[[Street Fighter (video game)|Street Fighter]]'', and ''[[Street Fighter II: The World Warrior]]''.
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | Includes ''[[Street Fighter (video game)|Street Fighter]]'', ''[[Street Fighter II]]'', ''[[Mega Man (DOS video game)|Mega Man]]'', and ''[[Mega Man 3 (DOS video game)|Mega Man 3]]''.
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Tetris Gold Professional]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Tetris Gold Professional]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Media King Entertainment]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Media King Entertainment]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1998
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1998
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | April 5, 2020
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |  
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |  
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Philips POV Entertainment]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Philips POV Entertainment]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1994
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1994
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | December 25, 1994
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |  
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |  
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Lucasfilm Games]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1988
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[EGA]] enhanced. Included in ''[[LucasArts Classic Adventures]]''.
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Will Crowther]], [[Don Woods]], [[Paul Munoz-Colman]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Will Crowther]], [[Don Woods]], [[Paul Munoz-Colman]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1993
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1993
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | August 27, 2019
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |  
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |  
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Will Crowther]], [[Don Woods]], [[Mike Arnautov]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Will Crowther]], [[Don Woods]], [[Mike Arnautov]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 2003
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 2003
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | September 8, 2019
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |  
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |  
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Will Crowther]], [[Don Woods]], [[David R. Malmberg]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Will Crowther]], [[Don Woods]], [[David R. Malmberg]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1993
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1993
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | September 8, 2019
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |  
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Will Crowther]], [[Don Woods]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Will Crowther]], [[Don Woods]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1995
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1995
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | August 27, 2019
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |  
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |  
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Will Crowther]], [[Don Woods]], [[David Platt]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Will Crowther]], [[Don Woods]], [[David Platt]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1978
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1978
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | August 27, 2019
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |  
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |  
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Will Crowther]], [[Don Woods]], [[Mike Arnautov]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Will Crowther]], [[Don Woods]], [[Mike Arnautov]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1995
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1995
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | August 27, 2019
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |  
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |  
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Will Crowther]], [[Don Woods]], [[David Long]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Will Crowther]], [[Don Woods]], [[David Long]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1984
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1984
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | August 28, 2019
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |  
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Revolution Software]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Revolution Software]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1994
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1994
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | December 23, 2014
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Floppy disk|Floppy]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Beneath a Steel Sky]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Revolution Software]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1994
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[CD-ROM]]
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Colossal Cave Adventure]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Colossal Cave Adventure]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Will Crowther]], [[Don Woods]], [[Kevin Black]]<br />[[Will Crowther]], [[Don Woods]], [[Bob Wither]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Will Crowther]], [[Don Woods]], [[Kevin Black]]<br />[[Will Crowther]], [[Don Woods]], [[Bob Wither]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1987
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1987
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | August 28, 2019
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |  
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |  
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Day of the Tentacle]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[LucasArts]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1993
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[CD-ROM]]
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Lucasfilm Games|LucasArts]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[LucasArts]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1993
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1993
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | December 25, 1993
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[CD-ROM]]
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Lucasfilm Games]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1989
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[VGA]] [[Floppy disk|floppy]]
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Loom]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Lucasfilm Games]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1990
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[EGA]] [[Floppy disk|floppy]]
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Loom]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[LucasArts]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1992
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[VGA]] [[CD-ROM]]
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Lure of the Temptress]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Revolution Software]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1992
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Maniac Mansion (video game)|Maniac Mansion]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Lucasfilm Games]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1987
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[EGA]] classic
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Maniac Mansion (video game)|Maniac Mansion]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Lucasfilm Games]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1988
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[EGA]] enhanced
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[LucasArts]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1991
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[The Secret of Monkey Island]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Lucasfilm Games]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1990
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[VGA]] [[floppy disk|floppy]]
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[The Secret of Monkey Island]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[LucasArts]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1996
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[VGA]] [[CD-ROM]]
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Space Quest: The Sarien Encounter]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Sierra]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1986
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[AGI]] original
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Space Quest I: Roger Wilco in the Sarien Encounter]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Sierra]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1991
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[SCI]] [[VGA]] remake
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Space Quest II: Vohaul's Revenge]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Sierra]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1987
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |
|-
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Space Quest III: The Pirates of Pestulon]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Sierra]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1988
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Sierra]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1991
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |  
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |  
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Dynamix]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Dynamix]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1993
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1993
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | December 17, 2012
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |  
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Space Quest 6: The Spinal Frontier]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Sierra]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1995
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Switch]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Wes Meier]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1982
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |  
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |  
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Metropolis Software House]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Metropolis Software House]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1995
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1995
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | April 6, 2009
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[CD-ROM]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Lucasfilm Games]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1988
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[EGA]] enhanced
|}
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[[Category:DOS]]
[[Category:Operating systems]]
[[Category:Operating systems]]

Latest revision as of 07:29, 16 July 2025

DOS
Developer IBM, Microsoft, SCP, various
Publisher IBM, Microsoft, SCP, various
Distributor
Platforms x86
Released 1980-present
Added to
Museum 		MS-DOS 3.3 (AGI Computer): February 7, 2021
FreeDOS 1.3: July 16, 2022

DOS stands for Disk Operating System.

History

Seattle Computer Products released 86-DOS in August 1980. It was licensed and then purchased by Microsoft.

Microsoft extended it into PC DOS for IBM, which was first released in August 1981, then further into MS-DOS, which was first released in March 1982.

After those releases, DOS became a common shorthand for those operating systems and those that are compatible with them.

Other notable DOS-compatible operating systems include Multiuser DOS, first released as Concurrent DOS (the third version of CP/M-86 with a PC-MODE module) in March 1984, and DR-DOS, first released in May 1988. These operating systems were Digital Research's successors to their popular CP/M operating system.

DOS continues to be developed as free and open-source software as FreeDOS, which was first released by Jim Hall and the FreeDOS team on January 12, 1998.

Retail games for DOS that are owned by the WEC Museum

Title Developer Release Notes
Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers: The Adventures in Nimnul's Castle Riedel Software Productions 1990
Hare Raising Havoc BlueSky Software 1991
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis LucasArts 1993 CD-ROM Talkie
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Lucasfilm Games 1989 VGA floppy. Included in LucasArts Classic Adventures.
Loom Lucasfilm Games 1990 EGA floppy. Included in LucasArts Classic Adventures.
LucasArts Classic Adventures LucasArts 1992 Includes Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Loom, Maniac Mansion, The Secret of Monkey Island, and Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders.
Maniac Mansion Lucasfilm Games 1988 EGA enhanced. Included in LucasArts Classic Adventures.
Mega Man Rozner Labs 1990 Included in Street Fighter Series.
Mega Man 3 Rozner Labs 1991 Included in Street Fighter Series.
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge LucasArts 1991 Included in Monkey Island Madness.
The Secret of Monkey Island Lucasfilm Games 1990 VGA floppy. Included in LucasArts Classic Adventures.
The Secret of Monkey Island LucasArts 1996 VGA CD-ROM. Included in Monkey Island Madness.
Street Fighter Capcom, Micro Talent, Rozner Labs 1988 Included in Street Fighter Series.
Street Fighter II: The World Warrior Rozner Labs 1993 Included in Street Fighter Series.
Street Fighter Series Capcom 1994 Includes Mega Man, Mega Man 3, Street Fighter, and Street Fighter II: The World Warrior.
Tetris Gold Professional Media King Entertainment 1998
Voyeur Philips POV Entertainment 1994
Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders Lucasfilm Games 1988 EGA enhanced. Included in LucasArts Classic Adventures.

Digital games for DOS that are owned by the WEC Museum

Title Developer Release Notes
370 Point Adventure Will Crowther, Don Woods, Paul Munoz-Colman 1993
770 Adventure Will Crowther, Don Woods, Mike Arnautov 2003
Adventure in Humongous Cave Will Crowther, Don Woods, David R. Malmberg 1993
Adventure 2.5 Will Crowther, Don Woods 1995
Adventure 3 Will Crowther, Don Woods, David Platt 1978
Adventure 4 Will Crowther, Don Woods, Mike Arnautov 1995
Adventure 6 Will Crowther, Don Woods, David Long 1984
Beneath a Steel Sky Revolution Software 1994 Floppy
Beneath a Steel Sky Revolution Software 1994 CD-ROM
Colossal Cave Adventure Will Crowther, Don Woods, Kevin Black
Will Crowther, Don Woods, Bob Wither 		1987
Day of the Tentacle LucasArts 1993 CD-ROM
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis LucasArts 1993 CD-ROM
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Lucasfilm Games 1989 VGA floppy
Loom Lucasfilm Games 1990 EGA floppy
Loom LucasArts 1992 VGA CD-ROM
Lure of the Temptress Revolution Software 1992 English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish
Maniac Mansion Lucasfilm Games 1987 EGA classic
Maniac Mansion Lucasfilm Games 1988 EGA enhanced
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge LucasArts 1991
The Secret of Monkey Island Lucasfilm Games 1990 VGA floppy
The Secret of Monkey Island LucasArts 1996 VGA CD-ROM
Space Quest: The Sarien Encounter Sierra 1986 AGI original
Space Quest I: Roger Wilco in the Sarien Encounter Sierra 1991 SCI VGA remake
Space Quest II: Vohaul's Revenge Sierra 1987
Space Quest III: The Pirates of Pestulon Sierra 1988
Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers Sierra 1991
Space Quest V: The Next Mutation Dynamix 1993
Space Quest 6: The Spinal Frontier Sierra 1995
Switch Wes Meier 1982
Teenagent Metropolis Software House 1995 CD-ROM
Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders Lucasfilm Games 1988 EGA enhanced
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