![]() This proved to be more frustrating than helpful (I can never figure out FreeDOS for some reason whenever I install it in VirtualBox it always seems to uninstall itself after every reboot). But I no longer had access to the utilities I had been using on my Mac to convert directories to floppy images, so I created a second, auxiliary VirtualBox VM running FreeDOS so I could import software into the VM more easily. It wasn’t my first time using this version of DOS, so I knew my way around the system fairly well. When I finally did decide to get VirtualBox for Windows, I started the same way I had previously: by installing DOS. I just hadn’t really been doing anything with VMs recently, so I felt no need to install it. Since my two Macbooks both broke during the first half of last year, and I decided to use the $200 my mom agreed to give me because I was broke to buy myself a Thinkpad rather than to get the Macs repaired (best decision I ever made), I was without VirtualBox for a couple months as I was first getting acclimated to the new computing environment. I just thought I’d share some of my recent exploits with this program, as well as some sweet screenshots (retrocomputing porn) taken with the VirtualBox screen capture utility. VirtualBox is a great way to bring DOS and other old x86-based operating systems back from the dead and enjoy them on modern computers. ![]() One of my primary means of doing this has always been VirtualBox. Anyone who checks out my old blog will quickly find out that I have a long history of being obsessed with retrocomputing and messing around with old hardware and software.
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