Visual DOS 2024 Professional Standard

Thank you for your interest in the latest Visual DOS product, Visual DOS 2024!

As a special promotion, all purchases are upgraded to Visual DOS 2024 Professional Standard with Visual DOS Plus! Pack for the first 3 months! 

Professional Standard  includes:

• Unlimited remote AI interpretation of commands for enhanced security! Without a local COMMAND.COM, the chances of someone compromising your machine drop dramatically. Every command is sent to a secure server, processed, and sent back * (requires broadband internet connection)
• DirectX and OpenGL Support* (for newer computers that support it maybe)
• Graphics (for newer computers that support it)
• New high resolution text!

The Plus pack includes:

• A news application
• The knowledge that this is normally a paid addition that you got for free

Years ago, Apple and Microsoft tried to introduce GUI Operating Systems to the masses, but everyone liked DOS so much that their initiative failed. Both companies went bankrupt, and from the ashes of MS-DOS came Visual DOS! Introduced in 1995 with the features people wanted!

Since then, every release of Visual DOS has been backwards compatible and introduced features everyone can use. This versatile Operating System can and does run on every computer: office computers, gaming computers, computers with and without networking!

This version of Visual DOS upgrades your existing Visual DOS virtualization container. Installation is easy: download our upgrade image from our network, and run the setup file. 

The Game

You're installing the latest, greatest Visual DOS release. But the concept of all your commands and everything you type being held by the Visual DOS company, and the reliability of the LLM/Generative AI give cause for some concern.

Visual DOS 2024 is a narrative / cryptogram puzzle game. After upgrading to Visual DOS 2024, you start exploring the OS, but instead meet someone trapped at the other end. Using cryptogram puzzles, and a pre-installed news reader, you unravel the mysteries behind the scenes, and attempt to save your trapped friend.

Visual DOS has:

• Over 60 cryptogram puzzles 
• A DOS like environment with DOS and other command-line commands that do things
• No real generative AI behind it
• Approximately 5 hours of puzzles and narrative
• Reasons to fill bullet points!
• Dark Mode support
• Light mode support
• Typing
• 7 megabytes of content and binary data when compressed!
• A prequel!
• And more!

Status

Was intended to be completed in under a month, but sometimes life gets in the way. Initially used LiveCode for it's cross-platform abilities, but those abilities turned out not to exist. The game was remade in Javascript and HTML.  Tauri was used to package as executables.

Story progression is complete.

The prequel, Integer Overflow covers much of the story too.

The sequel will cover [censored]

Content Warnings

This story includes swears and depictions of abuse, abductions, transphobia, sexism that are a part of the story in a way that is unavoidable.

Credits

Royalty free art was used for the icons.

In-line icons from Lucid Icons by Midhil M

DOS font (“Web437 IBM VGA 8x16” by VileR https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/) used in the old-dos screen

Story concept by Me & Neylan Gonzalez.