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FreeDOS 1.4 Is Here


A lot has happened in DOS since FreeDOS 1.3. Developers have been adding features to FreeDOS, fixing bugs, making translations, updating programs, and writing documentation.

Version 0.86 has a bunch of new fixes, compatibility improvements, and translations, thanks to Jeremy, TK Chia, Emir, Andrew, Yu-Shih, Bernd, Jiří, and others. (DOSVIEW also supports PCX, TGA, JPG, TIF, GIF, PNM, PBM, PGM, PPM, PSD, and PIC formats, among others.) This version was much smoother because Jerome Shidel, our distribution manager, had an idea after FreeDOS 1.3 that we could have a rolling test release that collected all of the changes that people make over time.

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