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MS-DOS 3.31d Compaq OEM (5.25" 360K floppy version)

02k-guy02k-guy
edited July 3 in Software
https://archive.org/details/ms-dos.ver.-3.31d-oem-compaq.-english

Language English
Item Size 1.3M
The 5.25" version of the famous MS-DOS 3.31d Compaq OEM, "this is notably the only 5.25" version of Compaq DOS 3.31 with the "FASTART" utility and also includes properly working 5.25" setup disks for the Compaq Portable 386 (and perhaps other models). This release supports HDDs bigger than 32 MB, up to 504 MB."




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  • 02k-guy02k-guy
    Did a little digging. The source for this was a 500mb upload by Jason Scott - well known for collecting this that and the other thing, and uploading to archive.org.

    In that larger 500mb archive is a legend of how the files are named. It shows thya6t the exclamation mark indicates a clean, verified dump.

    Legend follows:

    Filename Structure:
    [Product Name] [vX.X] (Disk XX)[ Label Misc ](Disk ID)(Publisher)(Date)[ [X]].ext
    .. or ..
    ZXX_[####][label].ext

    Extensions:
    vfd
    img - FAT12 - DOS/Windows/etc


    Postfixes/Notes:
    [!] Verified Clean Dump
    - Newly Packaged
    - No Write Protect Switch
    - Alternate Disk Verification
    [Xd] Alternate Count Disk Sets
    - X Disks in Set
    [aX] Alternate Dump
    - Alternate Release
    - Non-clean Dumps
    [bX] Bad Dump
    - Incomplete
    - Damaged Disk
    - Copy Protection
    - Partial Format
    [dXXXX] Disk Capacity for Alternate Disk Sizes
    - 160 - 160KB
    - 180 - 180KB
    - 320 - 320KB
    - 360 - 360KB
    - 400 - 400KB
    - 720 - 720KB
    - 800 - 800KB
    - 1200 - 1.2MB
    - 1440 - 1.44MB
    [hX] Hacked
    - Modified in Some Way
    [p] Placeholder
    - Disk is available but cannot be dumped

    Prefixes:
    ZBK - Backup Set Disk
    ZCP - Non-original/Copy
    ZCQ - Non-original/Copy
    ZZY - No Label Misc/Data
    ZZZ - Misc/Data
  • 02k-guy02k-guy
    BTW, the 500mb archive is available here:
    https://mega.nz/file/JAkgxSQD#FAcR4xGC5CaAwI2rYl56dSuySsGb7yEESO3of4jfo9g

    And the 8.2 GB archive that COMPAQ DOS 3.31 was sourced from is here:
    "The DOS Memories project is a collection of over 2,400 DOS-based programs from 1980-2003, primarily games and entertainment software. All are self-contained in .ZIP or .RAR files, with installation media contained within. These should not be considered canonical game images, but reference points for study."

    https://archive.org/details/DOS.Memories.Project.1980-2003
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