Power DOS 4+

Name: Power DOS
Rating: 2.8 (33 reviews)
Author: Pilcrow AG

Pilcrow AG

Designed for iPad

- 2.8 • 33 Ratings

- $0.99

Description

A DOS to run on the iPhone and iPad.
NEW: Sound emulation and external Bluetooth Keyboard enabled!

The first Disk Operating Systems were introduced when Tape Memory was replaced with rotating Disks. This was in the 60'ies of the last century. Since then a lot has changed, but many of us remember the days when there was no Graphical User Interface.

This app now is introducing DOS for mobile devices. Not laptops, but phones. iPhone and iPad, to be precise. It is a perfect emulator of the DOS that so many games and applications in the 80'ies and 90'ies have been running on.

Win and Win95 were running on DOS, showing what a 16bit operating system is capable of. If sys ini, commanc.com, config.sys and .exe sound familiar to you, then this is the app for you.

The DOS is not just a CLI, it is a full fledged operating system. It does everything that the Ancient DOS did. It is capable of executing batch files or installing some of the game classics that never made it past DOS. It probably runs much better than the original DOS used to run on old PC's, which were state of the art back then.

30 years is old enough to be called vintage, and it brings as much power as it did back then ;-) With this app you can get this vintage feeling on your iPhone or iPad.

◆Features
▸ SoundCard emulation
▸ External Bluetooth Keyboard
▸ Disk Operating System
▸ Everything you would expect from DOS ;)

If you have ideas, feedback, suggestions or anything else you would like to tell us, do not hesitate to drop us a line!

And if you like Power DOS, be not shy to leave a good review!

Jan 16, 2017

Version 1.5

This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.

up to 100% more CPU power
up to 40% less Ram footprint

2.8 out of 5

33 Ratings

Nice, but missing iTunes File Sharing

Please add iTunes File Sharing, as there is no way to add new games/applications.

Write Batch and Text Files But Nothing Else

Using ‘copy con [file name]’ I can make a one line text file. Then ‘type [file2] >> [file1]’ will append one text file to another. I can make batch files that way. There is no Edlin, or Edit. Wish it came with DEBUG, or BASIC. Has no file share to export files, and no option to import disk images to mount. PowerDOS has the ability to mount disk images if only there were a way to get to downloads, or iCloud storage. I can only use this to practice making batch files and folders. Again, wish it had DEBUG, then I could create binary programs to run in the emulator. I mounted D: to ~/ and saw the sub directory. None of the files that are claimed to be in this app exist.

Needs more basic commands and networking

I bought this hoping to run simple network commands like ping and nslookup since I work so much on my iPad for my job. I was hoping to avoid using my PC. Put networking in PowerDOS because you say it runs better than the original Microsoft DOS. Well, it had networking in it.