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Infocom offered the only third-party games for the Macintosh at launch by distributing them with its own bootable operating system. [1] A scaled down version of GeoWorks Ensemble was used by America Online for their AOL client software until the late 1990s. AOL was distributed on a single 3.5-inch floppy disk, which could be used to boot ...
A live CD or live DVD is a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM containing a bootable computer operating system. Live CDs are unique in that they have the ability to run a complete, modern operating system on a computer lacking mutable secondary storage, such as a hard disk drive.
The Ultimate Boot CD contains freeware and open-source diagnostic tools from a variety of sources. Many of these tools were originally designed to boot from a floppy disk drive. The Ultimate Boot CD made it possible to run them on a PC without a floppy drive. [5] UBCD can also run from USB for computers without an optical drive. [5]
It consists of a boot floppy image and a zip file, similar to zipslack. It is intended to be a fairly complete Linux installation for use as a testing tool capable of booting on any x86 computer with a USB port and a bootable floppy .
Learn how to download and install or uninstall the Desktop Gold software and if your computer meets the system requirements.
tomsrtbt (pronounced: Tom's Root Boot) is a very small Linux distribution.It is short for "Tom's floppy which has a root filesystem and is also bootable." [1] Its author, Tom Oehser, touts it as "The most GNU/Linux on one floppy disk", containing many common Linux command-line tools useful for system recovery (Linux and other operating systems.)
KryoFlux reads "flux transitions" from floppy disks at a very fine resolution. [6] It can also read disks originally written with different bit cell widths and drive speeds, with a normal fixed-speed drive. [7] The software is available for Microsoft Windows, [8] Mac OS and Linux. The KryoFlux controller plugs into a standard USB port, and ...
FreeDOS (formerly PD-DOS) is a free software operating system for IBM PC compatible computers. It intends to provide a complete MS-DOS-compatible environment for running legacy software and supporting embedded systems. [6] FreeDOS can be booted from a floppy disk or USB flash drive [7] [8] and is designed to run well under virtualization or x86 ...