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
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| Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers: The Adventures in Nimnul's Castle
|
Riedel Software Productions
|
1990
|
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| 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
|
| Loom
|
Lucasfilm Games
|
1990
|
Floppy
|
| 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
|
| Mega Man
|
Rozner Labs
|
1990
|
|
| Mega Man 3
|
Rozner Labs
|
1991
|
|
| The Secret of Monkey Island
|
Lucasfilm Games
|
1990
|
VGA floppy
|
| Street Fighter
|
Capcom, Micro Talent, Rozner Labs
|
1988
|
|
| Street Fighter Series
|
Capcom
|
1994
|
Includes Mega Man, Mega Man 3, Street Fighter, and Street Fighter II: The World Warrior.
|
| Street Fighter II: The World Warrior
|
Rozner Labs
|
1993
|
|
| Street Fighter Series
|
Capcom
|
1993
|
Includes Street Fighter, Street Fighter II, Mega Man, and Mega Man 3.
|
| Tetris Gold Professional
|
Media King Entertainment
|
1998
|
|
| Voyeur
|
Philips POV Entertainment
|
1994
|
|
| Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
|
Lucasfilm Games
|
1988
|
EGA enhanced
|
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
|
CD-ROM
|
| Colossal Cave Adventure
|
Will Crowther, Don Woods, Kevin Black
Will Crowther, Don Woods, Bob Wither
|
1987
|
|
| 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
|
Floppy
|
| Loom
|
LucasArts
|
1992
|
VGA CD-ROM
|
| Maniac Mansion
|
Lucasfilm Games
|
1987
|
EGA classic
|
| Maniac Mansion
|
Lucasfilm Games
|
1988
|
EGA enhanced
|
| 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
|
