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FreeDOSHow-To April 19, 2026 3 min read

How to Partition a Disk with FDISK on FreeDOS

A complete walkthrough creating a primary partition, an extended partition with logical drives, and setting the active boot partition — the way DOS disks have always been organized.

#howto#fdisk#partitioning
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FreeDOSHow-To April 17, 2026 2 min read

How to Set Up a Development Environment on FreeDOS

A complete walkthrough installing a C compiler and assembler on FreeDOS and building your first program — for anyone wanting to write software for DOS rather than just run it.

#howto#development#open-watcom
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FreeDOSHow-To April 16, 2026 2 min read

How to Set Up FreeDOS for Playing Classic DOS Games

A complete walkthrough getting sound, mouse, and memory configured correctly for DOS-era gaming — the three things almost every classic game setup guide assumes you already have working.

#howto#gaming#sound-blaster
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FreeDOSFix April 15, 2026 3 min read

Fixing Sound Blaster Configuration Issues on FreeDOS

A DOS game or application reports no sound, or the wrong sound, almost always tracing back to a mismatch between the BLASTER environment variable and the card's actual jumper or Plug-and-Play settings.

#fix#sound-blaster#audio
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FreeDOSFix April 14, 2026 3 min read

Fixing 'Bad Command or File Name' Errors on FreeDOS

This message covers several genuinely different underlying causes — a typo, a missing PATH entry, a missing file extension, or a corrupted COMMAND.COM. Here's how to tell them apart.

#fix#command-line#troubleshooting
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