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Let's Give the Newly-Released FreeDOS 1.4 a Spin on macOS With qemu

Apr 09, 2025

FreeDOS 1.4 is out. Let's take a look at at installing it. We'll use qemu on macOS so we have 1980s computing inside a 21st century machine.

Let's Give the Newly-Released FreeDOS 1.4 a Spin on macOS With qemu

Running LowEnd on HighEnd: Running FreeDOS on a MacBook M1 (Apple Silicon) with QEMU

raindog308

Jan 02, 2024

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Want to run FreeDOS on your Apple Silicon Mac? Took me a bit of research to figure out how to get it going via QEMU. Here's my recipe...so I can find it in a few years when I've forgotten how to do it.

Running LowEnd on HighEnd: Running FreeDOS on a MacBook M1 (Apple Silicon) with QEMU

Apple Silicon: A Hard Use Review

raindog308

Jul 24, 2022

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I'm an Apple fanboy. Actually, I'm a Unix fanboy and I find macOS to be the best desktop expression of that OS. I wouldn't want to run macOS on my servers - I use Linux or *BSD for that - but for de...

Do you use a Hosted macOS / Mac Provider?

raindog308

Feb 18, 2022

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Your esteemed Dread Lord of LowEnd Content, raindog308, is an admitted Apple fanboi. In the cloud, at the edge, for file servers, for many things, I am all about Linux and OpenBSD. But for human-fac...

Do you use a Hosted macOS / Mac Provider?

Apple Relents on New Surveillance Measures

raindog308

Sep 03, 2021

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Apple announced today that it is delaying rollout of its controversial new surveillance technology that sought to identify child pornography. They've updated their previous press release with this dis...

Apple Relents on New Surveillance Measures

Apple Installs Mandatory Software on Every Apple Device That Allows Engineers to See Your Photos, Approve Your Searches

raindog308

Aug 14, 2021

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Apple announced today that will begin scanning every photo, iMessage, and search you perform on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac in order to verify that Apple approves of the content you are viewing. Under...