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- Why DOS Was (and Is) a Thing - FreeDOS
- DOS Executables Explained - Nostalgia Nerd
- Why does DOS use 8.3 Filenames? - Nostalgia Nerd
- What is DOS Protected Mode? / DOS Extenders- Nostalgia Nerd
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## Videos
- [Why DOS Was (and Is) a Thing - FreeDOS](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E5Hog5OnIM) - Historical talk starting from Unix, going through CPM, DOS 1.x, DOS 2.x, DOS 3.x, DOS 4.x, DOS 6.x, Windows 3.1, Windows 95 and ending with FreeDOS.
- [CGA Graphics - Not as bad as you thought! - by 8-bit Guy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niKblgZupOc) - History and technical details about IBM's CGA system. Also describes 4-color RGBI and 16-color Composite modes.
- [How Oldschool Sound/Music worked - by 8-bit Guy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_3d1x2VPxk) - Video about PC speaker, FM synthesizers in NES and Commodore 64, Yamaha OPL chip in AdLib and Sound Blaster sound cards, PCM samples and MOD music.
- [Let's Code - MS DOS - by root42](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGJnX2KGgaw2L7Uv5NThlL48G9y4rJx1X) - DOS programming tutorial series including VGA, SoundBlaster and VGA Mode X.
- [LGR - Evolution of PC Audio - As Told by Secret of Monkey Island](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a324ykKV-7Y) - Comparison of playing the intro theme of Secret of Monkey Island through PC speaker, IBM PCjr/Tandy, AdLib, Game Blaster, Roland LAPC-1/MT-32, Gravis Ultrasound, Roland SCC-1 MIDI, SB16 Waveblaster/AWE32 and CD quality digital audio.
- [Porting Retro City Rampage to MS-DOS: From PS4 to 1.44MB Floppy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSKeWH4TY9Y) - GDC talk. Brian Provinciano's presentation on porting Retro City Rampage from PlayStation 4 to DOS. Topics include optimization, using interrupts, timing, PC speaker sound, joystick, memory management and fixed-point math.
- [DOS Executables Explained - Nostalgia Nerd](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j947U4xl5I) - Video about DOS executable formats including `.COM`, `.BAT` and `.EXE`.
- [Why does DOS use 8.3 Filenames? - Nostalgia Nerd](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGIyCD2_qA8) - Video about the 8.3 limitation of filenames under DOS, FAT partitioning scheme, NTFS, VFAT, FatGo, and `LFN.EXE`.
- [What is DOS Protected Mode? / DOS Extenders- Nostalgia Nerd](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAyQLV5bbb0) - Video about how PC memory looks like, conventional memory, extender memory and reasons for the need of DOS Protected Mode Interface (DPMI) and extenders like DOS/4GW.
## Open source DOS libraries