![]() ![]() That page doesn't have firmwares for newer Macs so I can't check them. I don't know if that means they have an alternate method for doing legacy BIOS boot. Some of the newer firmwares do not have that EFI app. I don't know if that means it works in all of them. In the list of firmwares at, most of them have the legacy BootCamp EFI app (2B0585EB-D8B8-49A9-8B8C-E21B01AEF2B7 AppleLegacyLoad). I think to use FreeDOS requires an Intel Mac that can do legacy BIOS boot. Anyways, heres how to boot into DOS once you install the driver: Step 1. To start Win9x (4.x) properly from it, please answer 'No' when it asks whether to load PC-CACHE (disk cache program for DOS). Create a PC Dos 7.1 boot disk using Ghost or a Dos 6.22 boot disk using Dells util. The floppy image isnt supposed to be bootable. You will then use DOSBoxs internal boot command to boot from this image. Therefore, it also supports CD/NTFS/USB drives, mouse, and many more. Floppy disk images of your DOS installation diskettes. I have used FreeDOS on my Mac Pro 2008 (MacPro3,1) but I haven't tried any games or graphical stuff. Note: The above Super MS-DOS 7.10 Boot Disk is a super DOS boot disk that has many more features than standard DOS boot disks. If MS-DOS or FreeDOS can be booted (with external USB support) on an Intel Mac, natively, it'd be great to work, distraction free like this one, too: As a bonus is there a way for FreeDOS, MS-DOS to run a GUI internet browser (just the browser is good) for a minimalist OS that can still browse the Internet 2.0 (or are we already on Internet 3.0 with all these deep learning and machine learning going around)? It's to know the capabilities of the Intel Macs (having tested FreeDOS on VirtualBox, macOS version and emulations like DOSBox) and to play some DOS apps (including DOS games) in its native, not emulated, non-virtualized form. The only PC DOS release to be available on CD-ROM Minor Y2K fixes Adds Euro currency symbol support Notes There is also PC DOS 7. Is there any way to make FreeDOS, MS-DOS 6.22, 7.1 or MS-DOS 8 (if a real DOS mode, standalone of version 8 exists) boot on the Mac, specifically an iMac, be it off an internal Mac drive, external one, CD/DVD or via network (external drive like a USB-A flashdrive is way preferred) that'll have support for external USB drives (like a flashdrive or a hardisk in a USB-A enclosure)? ![]()
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