Recomp / OS & system / PC
FreeDOS
Complete MS-DOS-compatible operating system for running classic DOS software and games.
Clean-room Human-led released playableFacts
- Original
- MS-DOS (1981)
- Platform
- PC
- Method
- Clean-room
- Provenance
- Human-led · Started by Jim Hall in 1994 what this means
- Status
- released
- Licence
- GPL-2.0
- Team
- FreeDOS Project
- Started
- 1994
- First release
- 2006-09
- Runs on
- x86
- Needs the original
- No
How to get it legally
Software in the browser. GPL-2.0; FreeDOS image hosted by v86 (BSD-2-Clause)
This project was rebuilt clean-room by FreeDOS Project. Facts last checked 2026-10-13.
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