DOS

DOS
Developer	IBM, Microsoft, SCP, various
Publisher	IBM, Microsoft, SCP, various
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 November 1987.

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	Added to museum	Notes
Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers: The Adventures in Nimnul's Castle	Riedel Software Productions	1990	October 30, 2019
Hare Raising Havoc	BlueSky Software	1991	August 13, 2019
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis	LucasArts	1993	December 25, 1993
Mega Man	Rozner Labs	1990	November 7, 2019
Mega Man 3	Rozner Labs	1991	November 10, 2019
Street Fighter	Capcom, Micro Talent, Rozner Labs	1988	November 10, 2019
Street Fighter II	Rozner Labs	1993	November 10, 2019
Street Fighter Series	Capcom	1993	November 10, 2019	Includes Street Fighter, Street Fighter II, Mega Man, and Mega Man 3.
Tetris Gold Professional	Media King Entertainment	1998	April 5, 2020
Voyeur	Philips POV Entertainment	1994	December 25, 1994

Digital games for DOS that are owned by the WEC Museum

Title	Developer	Release	Added to museum	Notes
370 Point Adventure	Will Crowther, Don Woods, Paul Munoz-Colman	1993	August 27, 2019
770 Adventure	Will Crowther, Don Woods, Mike Arnautov	2003	September 8, 2019
Adventure in Humongous Cave	Will Crowther, Don Woods, David R. Malmberg	1993	September 8, 2019
Adventure 2.5	Will Crowther, Don Woods	1995	August 27, 2019
Adventure 3	Will Crowther, Don Woods, David Platt	1978	August 27, 2019
Adventure 4	Will Crowther, Don Woods, Mike Arnautov	1995	August 27, 2019
Adventure 6	Will Crowther, Don Woods, David Long	1984	August 28, 2019
Beneath a Steel Sky	Revolution Software	1994	December 23, 2014
Colossal Cave Adventure	Will Crowther, Don Woods, Kevin Black Will Crowther, Don Woods, Bob Wither	1987	August 28, 2019
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis	LucasArts	1993	December 25, 1993
Space Quest V: The Next Mutation	Dynamix	1993	December 17, 2012
Teenagent	Metropolis Software House	1995	April 6, 2009