[mscdex]

There are still some alternative shells that exist, even for Windows 10 and 11, including xoblite (inspired by blackbox I believe) [1] and Cairo Shell [2].

[1] https://xoblite.net/docs/

[2] https://cairoshell.com/

[jcelerier]

Oof, I must still have my xoblite config from 2006-2007 somewhere on a hard drive backup, thanks for the nostalgia