I finally got round to publishing a version 1.0 of my long-running hobby project: a bootable DOS live USB image with tools for writers, providing a distraction-free writing environment.
https://github.com/lproven/usb-dos
This is very rushed and the instructions are incomplete. Only FAT16 for now; FAT32 coming real soon now.
@lproven
Curious if a UEFI bootable Linux with dosbox would get into newer hardware, although you might have to make a kernel without network support for it... Hmm
@thomasdorr There's occasionally discussion about this on the FreeDOS mailing list.
I reckon it would be doable with a 386 memory manager on steroids, plus a copy of SeaBIOS. Mostly, though, the developers say no way. And they know much more than I do!
@thomasdorr If on the other hand you were thinking of creating a lightweight Linux distribution just to run DOS apps, then go for it. I suggest taking a look at the way HP did it.
https://blog.tmm.cx/2022/05/15/the-very-weird-hewlett-packard-freedos-option/
@lproven
Gosh this is a rabbit hole of infinite depth