[Dwedit]

It's a similar idea, but that's a DOS menu. At the point when the menu appears, MS-DOS 7.1 has already been loaded.

[tetrisgm]

Stupid question but... would bundling the binary with an ASM port of something that could run this technically make it possible to run without the OS?

I realize this is basically doing docker for DOS games and incredibly stupid, I'm just curious about the thought experiment

[Xirdus]

Well, the "ASM port of something that could run this" would be the OS...

[tetrisgm]

Right. I guess I mean like an app specific OS haha

[ahartmetz]

Possibly stripped down to only support that game, but basically yeah