Microsoft Disk Operating System (dos)

for Batocera and Retrobat

MS-DOS (em-es-DOSS; acronym for Microsoft Disk Operating System) is an operating system for x86-based personal computers mostly developed by Microsoft. Collectively, MS-DOS, its rebranding as IBM PC DOS, and some operating systems attempting to be compatible with MS-DOS, are sometimes referred to as "DOS" (which is also the generic acronym for disk operating system). MS-DOS was the main operating system for IBM PC compatible personal computers during the 1980s, from which point it was gradually superseded by operating systems offering a graphical user interface (GUI), in various generations of the graphical Microsoft Windows operating system.

IBM licensed and re-released it in 1981 as PC DOS 1.0 for use in its PCs. Although MS-DOS and PC DOS were initially developed in parallel by Microsoft and IBM, the two products diverged after twelve years, in 1993, with recognizable differences in compatibility, syntax, and capabilities.

The package includes:

1055 games (~10 GB)
368 games in Lite pack (~129 GB)

Go to download  Lite pack   

How to install:
Drag and drop the "dos" folder to the "roms" directory

Lite pack info:
Lite pack is a collection of the 'best' games for this system. It has been created using several sources, such as various Top xx games lists available online and console/system exclusives. It also includes some of the teams personal favorites. Of course everyone has different tastes and likes, but this will hopefully be a good starting point for most people or be a nice curated set for those with less storage space.

The number of games in our 'Lite' packs varies, this is down to having the right balance of content versus size. Those disc-based systems that can take up a lot of storage have lower numbers of games, whereas as ROM, Cartridge, Cassette, Floppy etc based systems, will generally have more games. The aim is to have great content, but keep the total size of the packs manageable.

This is the first release of a DOS Lite pack.
It is based on the eXoDOS project
A full pack alos based on the eXoDOS project will be released in the future.

How to install Lite pack:
1. If you have a previous dos pack, delete the contents of /roms/dos/

2. Drag and drop the contents of the "v1-RGS_dos_lite" folder into the /roms/dos/ folder. (Create the folder is it doesn't exist)

3. Enjoy!