User:Dgpop

Most of my edits are on video game and computer history topics. I've cleaned-up many older game articles that had become disorganized. I've done major restructuring and editing of some large articles: TI-99/4A, TRS-80 Color Computer, Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Atari 8-bit computers, Atari ST.

Articles I've created
Listed chronologically within each section.

People
Hubert Alyea · Tom Hudson · Russ Wetmore

Video games
Two Tigers · Rainbow Walker · Preppie! · Getaway! · Dimension X · Spider Fighter · Mystic Marathon · Drelbs · Wavy Navy · Pacific Coast Highway · Canyon Climber · Mad Planets · Axis Assassin · Maze Craze · Boulders and Bombs · Treasure Island · Super Breakout · Triple Punch · Space Jockey · Chopper Hunt · Lost Tomb · Star Maze · Quest of the Space Beagle · Airstrike · Floyd of the Jungle · Track Attack · Preppie! II · Baja Buggies · Bristles · A.E. · Kid Grid · Desert Falcon · The Sands of Egypt · Crisis Mountain · Threshold · Pool 1.5 · Action Quest · Rosen's Brigade · Dodge Racer

Other
Telesys · CommaVid · Zimag · Cut & Paste · The First XLEnt Word Processor

Some stuff I've worked on
Listed alphabetically within each section.

Video games
2048 · Asteroids · Astro Chase · Avalanche · Aztarac · Black Magic · Blaster · Blitz · Blue Max 2001 · Breakout · The Adventures of Captain Comic · Caverns of Mars · Centipede · Crack'ed · Cranston Manor · Dandy · Defender · Donkey Kong · Donkey Kong Jr. · Elevator Action · Encounter! · Food Fight · Frogger · Frogger II · Galahad and the Holy Grail · Glider · Head On · Hex · Jungle Hunt · Jr. Pac-Man · Kangaroo · Keystone Kapers · K-Razy Shoot-Out · Laser Hawk · Manic Miner · Mario Bros. · Mattel Auto Race · Mercenary · MIDI Maze · Missile Command · Money Munchers · Moon Patrol · Munch Mobile · Orc Attack · Pitfall! · Planetoids · Ponpoko · Popeye · Professor Pac-Man · Rally Speedway · Rescue · River Patrol · Solo Flight · Space Dungeon · Spy vs. Spy · Star Wars · Tapper · Taxman · Time Pilot · Tutankham · Video Pinball · Word Zapper · Zaxxon · Zoo Keeper

Video game related
Atari 2600 · Atari 7800 · Big Five Software · Datasoft · First-person · Jordan Mechner · MobyGames · Doug Neubauer · Non-game · Chris Oberth · Photography game · Platformer · Puzzle video game · Carol Shaw · Snake (video game genre) · Synapse Software · Twin-stick shooter · Vertically scrolling video game · Video game genre · Bill Williams

Other tech
A86 · Michael Abrash · Action! · Amiga · Apple II · Apple IIGS · Apple III · Applesoft BASIC · ANALOG Computing · Atari 8-bit computers · Atari 8-bit computer software · Atari BASIC · Atari Falcon · Atari Logo · Atari Pascal · Atari Program Exchange · Atari ST · Blitter · Compact Computer 40 · De Re Atari · Jeri Ellsworth · FP · Hope · Lotus Jazz · Megamax C · Motorola 68000 · Motorola 6809 · Movie Maker (Reston Publishing) · Music Construction Set · Optimized Systems Software · Sprite · TI-99/4A · TMS34010 · TMS9918 · TRS-80 Color Computer · VIC-20 · Zilog Z8000

Other other
I Want My MTV · Mustangs of Las Colinas · "We're Not Gonna Take It" · Yahtzee

Lists
List of disk operating systems · List of maze video games

Templates
Atari 2600 · Video game engines (been a while) · GamePlatformKey/sub · Vgclegend/sub · Commodore International

Categories
1980s fads and trends · Horizontally scrolling shooters · Vertically scrolling shooters · Video game clones

Major moves
Atari 8-bit family → Atari 8-bit computers

Apple II series → Apple II

For reference

 * "it should be noted that"
 * Category:Atari 8-bit computer games
 * User:BOZ/Early computer game reviews

DOS vs. MS-DOS
MS-DOS was released in 1981 along with an IBM rebranded version, IBM PC DOS. For the first seven years of the IBM PC's existence, that was the story: MS-DOS or MS-DOS under a different name. On May 28, 1988, Digital Research released their enhanced, MS-DOS compatible operating system as DR-DOS. Since then there has been a clone of MS-DOS designed for embedded systems (ROM-DOS), a clone developed in Russia (PTS-DOS), and an open source clone (FreeDOS). My interpretation is that there's MS-DOS and clones of MS-DOS, and it's fair to lump the entire group under the MS-DOS header.

A more revisionist view is that there's a family of disk operating systems for IBM PC compatibles, and one of those is MS-DOS. The collective name for this family is "DOS." Complicating things is that "DOS" is both a general acronym for disk operating system and within various communities it's shorthand for a particular system's DOS (e.g., Atari DOS, Commodore DOS).

I used to go out of my way to replace DOS with MS-DOS, but I no longer do this, even though the DOS slang feels more and more incorrect as time goes by.

Tech company name prefixes
✅ Amiga, Commodore Amiga

✅ GameCube, Nintendo GameCube

✅ Master System, Sega Master System

✅ TI-99/4A, Texas Instruments TI-99/4A

✅ TMS34010, Texas Instruments TMS34010

✅ VIC-20, Commodore VIC-20

✅ ZX Spectrum, Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Sometimes the name doesn't work without the manufacturer, such as Apple II and Atari ST, but in general there's no reason to add bulk repeating company names.