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| {{System-Infobox
| | #redirect[[Category:MS-DOS Games]] |
| |Image=[[File:MS-DOS.png|32px]]
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| |Rel={{released|USA|August 12, 1981}}
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| |Dis=September 16, 2000
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| |Pre=N/A
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| |Suc={{wp|Windows NT}} (starting with {{wp|Windows XP}})
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| }}
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| [[File:StartingMsdos.png|thumb|left|An example of example of MS-DOS's command lines.]]
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| '''MS-DOS''' (short for '''M'''icro'''s'''oft '''D'''isk '''O'''perating '''S'''ystem) is a text-based operating system released by {{wp|Microsoft}} in 1981. It uses text commands and keyboard shortcuts, inputted via keyboard, in a {{wp|computer terminal}}-like setting, to perform user-defined actions. It can interface with other hardware, such as a mouse, but only if installed programs support it.
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| Starting with {{wp|Windows 1.0}}, it was an overlay that gave MS-DOS a {{wp|graphical user interface}}, but MS-DOS wasn't fully replaced (as it was merged with the DOS-based Windows products as part of the {{wp|Windows 9x|Windows 9x}} line, which consists of {{wp|Windows 95}}, {{wp|Windows 98}}, and {{wp|Windows Me}}) until the {{wp|Windows NT}} line of {{wp|Microsoft Windows|Windows products}} (which were designed to operate independently without DOS support and was originally intended to co-exist with the DOS-based versions), starting with the release of {{wp|Windows XP}} in 2001, although it retained {{wp|cmd.exe|Windows Command Prompt}} as a legacy feature, and the {{wp|Windows Recovery Console|Recovery Console}} in {{wp|Windows 2000}}, Windows XP, and {{wp|Windows Server 2003|Windows Server 2003}} provided a text mode command line interface that can be started from the installation CD or be installed to the hard drive although it is intended for diagnostics and to fix a Windows installation that won't boot.
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| ==Games==
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| The only ''[[Mario (franchise)|Mario]]'' games specifically developed for MS-DOS are the releases of these edutainment games:
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| *''[[Mario Teaches Typing]]'' (1991)
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| *''[[Super Mario Bros. Print World]]'' (1991)
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| *''[[Super Mario Bros. & Friends: When I Grow Up]]'' (1992)
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| *''[[Mario is Missing!]]'' (1992)
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| *''[[Mario's Time Machine]]'' (1993)
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| *''[[Mario's Early Years! CD-ROM Collection]]'' (1994)
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| *''[[Mario's FUNdamentals|Mario's Game Gallery]]'' (1995)
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| *''[[Mario Teaches Typing 2]]'' (1996)
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| Also available are ports of classic ''Mario'' arcade games:
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| *''[[Donkey Kong (game)|Donkey Kong]]'' (1981)
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| *''[[Mario Bros. (game)|Mario Bros.]]'' (1983)
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| {{Wikipedia}}
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| {{Consoles}}
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| [[Category:Video Game Systems]]
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| [[it:MS-DOS]]
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