BASIC-DOS

BASIC-DOS Release

The BASIC-DOS release diskette is a bootable 360K diskette with everything you need to try BASIC-DOS:

• The root directory contains the system files (BASDEV.COM, BASDOS.COM, and COMMAND.COM), CONFIG.SYS, and HELP.TXT
• EXT contains the external BASIC-DOS utilities (eg, ATTRIB, CHKDSK, COMP, DISKCOPY, FORMAT, MODE, SYS, TREE, VI, and the filters) and DEBUG.COM
• DEMOS contains a few demo programs: DIR.BAS, FIBO.BAT, HELLO.BAT, PAINT.BAS, PIPES.BAT, and PRIMES.BAS
• SAMPLES contains the BASIC samples from the IBM PC DOS 1.00 diskette (eg, DONKEY.BAS)

Download it as BASICDOS-360K, a raw 360K diskette image that most PC emulators can boot (and that can be written to a real 5.25-inch 360K diskette). Every BASIC-DOS demo machine also lists it first in its diskette drive menus, as BASIC-DOS 2.01 (Release).

The machine below is an IBM PC (Model 5150) with a 4.77Mhz 8088 with an 8087, 128K of memory, a Color Display, and two diskette drives. It boots the release diskette, which runs a single 80-column session. Type HELP for a list of commands, DIR to list the files on the diskette, PRIMES to run PRIMES.BAS, or the name of a BASIC sample (eg, DONKEY).

CONFIG.SYS from the BASIC-DOS Release Diskette

REM BASIC-DOS release diskette configuration
BUFFERS=4
SESSIONS=3
SHELL=COMMAND.COM PATH$="A:\;A:\EXT;A:\DEMOS;A:\SAMPLES"

See the BASIC-DOS Manual for more information, and the Demos for BASIC-DOS running in other configurations.

Copyright (c) 2020-2026 Jeff Parsons Released under MIT License