With permission from Apple, The Computer History Museum and the Digibarn Computer Museum announced today it is publishing the original DOS source code for Apple’s 1978 Apple II. The Apple II was the ...

If ever source code can be said to have helped launch an empire, the code behind the Apple II DOS would qualify. And now it's available to everyone. Last spring, CNET was first to report on the ...

After a lot of debugging, [Seth Kushniryk] has managed to get the last issuess shaken out of his port of MS-DOS 2.0 to the Apple II, and has released the project to the public. If you have the ...

If you are interested in taking a look at a 35-year-old computer operating system, when computers were equipped with around 4K of memory. You might be interested to know that the Computer History ...

The developer of "iDOS 2," a popular DOS emulator for iOS, on Thursday said Apple will remove the app from the App Store for breaking review guidelines. Available since 2014, iDOS 2 emulates the DOS ...

Emulators are a great way to reminisce about games and software from yesteryear. [Jorj Bauer] found himself doing just that back in 2002, when they decided to boot up Three Mile Island for the Apple ...

In a world of super-fast OS X and Windows machines, it's easy to forget that early desktop computers were a lot more basic. That was the case for the Apple II, Cupertino's first mass-market computer ...

Thanks to a collaboration between two vintage computer museums, the Apple II DOS source code, widely regarded as the seed that sprouted Apple as we know it, has been made available to the public. The ...

Apple briefly let a few old-school gamers wallow in geek heaven by allowing an MS DOS emulator into the App Store, and then promptly booted it out, shattering the dreams of classic PC fans everywhere.

iDOS 2, an app designed to allow users to play classic DOS games, will soon be pulled from the App Store, the app's creator said today. According to iDOS developer Chaoji Li, he tried to submit an ...

The Computer History Museum has scored a major win: the rights to republish the original source code, and related documentation, for the Apple DOS operating system bundled with the Apple II ...

A command-line interface is a terminal-style screen where you type commands at a prompt, one line at a time. You might associate it with the MS-DOS operating system that was widely used until the ...