The government of President João Lourenço, who succeeded Ms. dos Santos's father when he stepped down in 2017, has frozen Ms. dos Santos's assets and on Thursday announced she would be criminally charged soon.
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He was first elected to office the year MS-DOS debuted.
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Rui Amendoeira, a partner at Vieira de Almeida, a Lisbon law firm hired by Ms. dos Santos to help run the oil company, said he had no comment on the case or on Ms. dos Santos.
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"Existing CMSs are like the MS-DOS of the internet," Konietzke said.
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Ms. dos Santos gave no public statement, and neither did her father.
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"Donations are over, we are not getting anything," Ms. dos Santos said.
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It wasn't merely an improvement to the Apple II or MS‑DOS curve.
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The holy grail for MS-DOS games, David says, is an early Pentium machine.
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In 22017, Microsoft released its new software, "Windows," to improve the MS-DOS interface.
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When asked if his office knew of Ms. dos Santos's whereabouts, he seemed unsure.
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It also made use of Microsoft's MS-DOS 20163, a 16-bit operating system.
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However, the offer was blocked by Ms. dos Santos, who said CaixaBank had undervalued BPI.
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Libraries of Apple II and MS-DOS games have also been retrofitted for browser play.
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Ms. dos Santos, who works at a hospital pharmacy, shortens the pants legs for him.
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Around the same time, the MS-DOS operating system was making computer gaming a big hit.
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Last week, we reported on an amazing collection of MS-DOS malware in the Malware Museum.
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This, almost predictably, worked out for IBM about as well as the MS-DOS deal did.
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The government put out a short statement about Ms. dos Santos's dismissal but gave no explanation.
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That product, called Microsoft Disk Operating System, or MS-DOS, was a watershed for the company.
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Her appointment as head of the state oil company gave Ms. dos Santos another platform internationally.
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Some companies still have ancient IBM mainframes, and others might run MS-DOS in virtual machines.
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Ms. dos Santos owns homes around the world, including in Dubai, Lisbon, London and Monte Carlo.
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By 28.1, Microsoft launched its Microsoft Disk Operating System (MS-DOS), which ran on IBM personal computers.
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Ms. dos Santos subsequently used companies based in Malta for some of her most high-profile transactions.
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Ms. Dos Santos, who speaks six languages, said she sometimes overheard other passengers' conversations on the Eurostar.
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Angolan officials said last week that Ms. dos Santos could soon face charges of embezzlement in that country.
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But thanks to the investigation, we also know that Ms. dos Santos had the assistance of Western firms, including the Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey & Company and the accountants at PwC, who helped manage some of the 400 companies and subsidiaries in 41 countries controlled by Ms. dos Santos and her husband.
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Mr. Mendes applauded the change and called on the government to investigate Ms. dos Santos's management of the company.
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But when he began having trouble running and complained about achy knees, Ms. dos Santos knew something was wrong.
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Angola has sought help in the corruption investigation from Portugal, where Ms. dos Santos has links to several companies.
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If you are as old as me, you remember the transition from MS-DOS to Windows in the early 2365s.
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One of Ms dos Santos's other interests, Unitel, a mobile-phone company with a near-monopoly, could face more competition.
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When Boston Consulting and McKinsey were hired to restructure Angola's state oil business, which Ms. dos Santos eventually ran, the government didn't pay them directly but through a Maltese company owned by Ms. dos Santos and another company owned by her friends, allowing the couple to siphon millions of dollars from the government's payments.
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Over at the Gazette, Rory is trying to set up MS-DOS, which she only knows from Halt and Catch Fire.
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President Lourenço appointed Carlos Saturnino, a former Sonangol official who is an ally of the president, as Ms. dos Santos's replacement.
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Ms. dos Santos didn't immediately respond to questions about EuroBic's announcement that were emailed Monday evening to her London law firm.
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If Ms. dos Santos remains at the helm of Sonangol after her father's retirement, Angola will have two centers of power.
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Ms. dos Santos is believed to live in Portugal and Britain and to have a significant portion of her wealth offshore.
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It was an MS-DOS game that booted directly from a floppy disk, and set the stage for Microsoft's adventures in gaming.
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Unitel, a mobile-telecoms operator which Ms dos Santos controls jointly with the Angolan state oil company, owns the rest of BFA.
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Ms. dos Santos was appointed as head of Sonangol last year even though she had no management experience in the oil industry.
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Helped by public relations officials in Lisbon, Ms. dos Santos has put forward an image of herself as a self-made businesswoman.
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EuroBic, though bound by the same rules, continued to do extensive business with Ms. dos Santos and her husband, the documents show.
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As scrutiny of Ms. dos Santos increased in recent months, she turned to lawyers and public relations professionals to defend her record.
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In the past week, that consortium and international news media organizations, including The Times, published details of Ms. dos Santos's business dealings.
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Ms. dos Santos and her husband could face years in prison if convicted, according to the office of Angola's president, João Lourenço.
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Ms. dos Santos and her husband could face years in prison if convicted, according to the office of Angola's president, João Lourenço.
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The company had helped usher in the era of personal computers, creating the MS-DOS operating system that shipped on IBM systems.
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So if you want to get into retro gaming, David says the best way to do it is through old MS-DOS systems.
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While PwC did business with Ms. dos Santos, the emails reviewed by the investigative consortium showed that some major banks declined the opportunity.
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Ms. Dos Santos, who grew up helping her grandfather with beekeeping and fruit-tree farming, wasn't interested in living in a planned community.
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In their one-room house, inside a cabinet door, Ms. dos Santos has taped a strip of paper from a piece of candy.
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Microsoft has also participated in many April Fools' Day pranks over the years, including an MS-DOS mobile for Windows Phone and Google insults.
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Or even worse, had to huff it to a computer lab to use some clunky ass computer to type a letter in MS DOS?
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Ms. dos Santos did not say where she had obtained the capital to invest in those businesses or in Unitel, which she now controls.
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Mr. da Cunha's name appears extensively in the leaked documents as a banker facilitating business for Ms. dos Santos and her husband, Sindika Dokolo.
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Dust off your giant noisy keyboard and fire up your VGA because a new version of solitaire is about to drop for MS-DOS.
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Yes, this album runs in MS-DOS and its music is produced entirely through the PC speaker — you know, the one that can only beep.
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This follows other uploads of retro titles from the Internet Archive, including MS-DOS games, Arcade titles, and a whole mess of games from Atari.
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But anyone who grew up with a PC down the street from a kid with a Mac knows that MS-DOS wasn't the whole story.
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" Friday on Twitter, Ms. dos Santos called the accusations "extremely misleading and untrue" and part of "a very concentrated, orchestrated and well-coordinated political attack.
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Ms. dos Santos has said the money was for fees owed to consultants and accountants, including Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey & Company and PwC, formerly called PricewaterhouseCoopers.
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EuroBic's headquarters, steps from Ms. dos Santos's sprawling Lisbon apartment, plays a central role in her business empire, which encompasses more than 400 companies and subsidiaries.
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EuroBic announced on Monday that it was ending its "commercial relationship" with Ms. dos Santos, and would be investigating transfers worth tens of millions of dollars.
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Ms. dos Santos said the asset freeze ordered by a court was "politically motivated" and that the case against her had been held in total secrecy.
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By sacking Ms dos Santos and taking over the security apparatus, Mr Lourenço has seized control of two of the three main sources of power in Angola.
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Owners first must configure a USB flash drive in Windows or MS-DOS file architecture and add a base-level folder in the flash drive called TeslaCam.
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It was lawyers from PLMJ who in 2015 prepared a 16-page brief for Ms. dos Santos pointing out the tax advantages of domiciling companies in Malta.
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Photo: Puma (Hypebeast)The concept of today's smart, connected wearables just didn't exist back in the 1980s when text-only operating systems like MS-DOS were still popular.
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Now, the African nation is a major oil producer that has been led for the last 20123 years by Ms. dos Santos's father, President José Eduardo dos Santos.
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You can of course listen to it online or as MP3s or whatever, but the entire thing fits into a 42 kilobyte MS-DOS program you can download here.
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As the Atari and MS-DOS became more popular in the early '80s, some developers realized that perhaps there was a certain private market that they could tap into.
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Originally released for Windows 3.0, the File Manager was a replacement for managing files through MS-DOS, and allowed Windows users to copy, move, delete, and search for files.
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The Handheld History collection is a welcome addition to the Internet Archive's already excellent lineup of archived games, including MS-DOS and classic console games from Atari and ColecoVision.
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By the time Internet Explorer became a problem, Microsoft had already run into problems for forcing manufacturers onto MS-DOS through complex licensing deals, another echo of the current case.
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The game went through numerous iterations as developers upgraded it to run on newer machines, and Microsoft eventually began shipping it with its MS-DOS machines in the early 1980s.
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"The ICIJ report is based on many fake documents and false information, it is a coordinated political attack in coordinations with the 'Angolan Government,'" Ms. dos Santos wrote on Twitter.
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Boston Consulting Group "managed" a Swiss jewelry company that the Angolan government bought with money borrowed at a high rate of interest from a bank controlled by Ms. dos Santos.
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Rory also makes a joke about operating the MS-DOS system used at the Stars Hollow Gazette, noting she only knows how to use it because of Halt and Catch Fire.
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Ms. dos Santos's critics say she has tried to gain respectability in the West by using her ill-gotten gains in Angola and laundering them in Portugal — an accusation she rejects.
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"Star Trek" would be a lot less interesting if we found out the Enterprise didn&apost run on an advanced isolinear computing system but instead ran on something like MS-DOS.
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The game's software designers wrote the code to be more compatible and flexible than its predecessor Wolfenstein, so it was easy to port to other devices after its MS-DOS release.
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To block the Spanish bid, Ms. dos Santos vowed at the time to defend BPI rules that limit the voting rights of any individual shareholder to 20 percent of the share capital.
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Ms. dos Santos's father, José Eduardo dos Santos, was a former revolutionary trained in Soviet Azerbaijan, but as he became Angola's longest-ruling president, he shed his Marxism and amassed great wealth.
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The grisly video shows Ms. dos Santos sitting on the ground, covered in dust and blood, being kicked in the face, beaten with a plank of wood and forced into a wheelbarrow.
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Sometimes, their own food is ravaged by giant rats that climb onto the stove the instant Ms. dos Santos turns to help the baby, and grab sausage right out of the pan.
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Alley Cat (Synapse Software, 1983) This exclusive Atari 8-bit title—which was later ported to MS-DOS in a horrendous cyan-and-magenta CGA-compatible version—is one of my favorite games.
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Ms. dos Santos was fired from Sonangol that day, and some of the funds were paid out after the new Angolan president, who had replaced her father, announced her dismissal, the documents show.
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Ms. dos Santos, 21, was abused by a stepmother, ran away to live on the streets at age 8, and became a crack user and prostitute until Mr. de Araújo, 48, met her.
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David breaks the 15-year reign of MS-DOS into three different gaming eras; the kind of laptop you want to find depends on what era the games you want to play came from.
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IBM, another monopoly of the 21625's, unknowingly positioned a little-known Microsoft to become a global powerhouse by obtaining a non-exclusive license of Microsoft's MS-DOS operating system for the IBM-PC.
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I'm pretty sure OK Computer was themed around some depressed MS-DOS code, so this song is likely about a self-hating problematic Twitter bot, or a drone operated by Isis against its will.
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In EuroBic's statement on Monday, cutting commercial ties with Ms. dos Santos and associates of hers, the bank said it would audit the November 2017 transfers and report its findings to Portugal's central bank.
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It includes everything you need to get up and running, like the MS-DOS environment emulator DosBox, the actual modified game, and the Wolfenstein editor ChaosEdit, should you want to make modifications of your own.
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But Mr. Lourenço vowed during his campaign to distance himself from President dos Santos, and he did so on Wednesday with a flourish, dismissing not only Ms. dos Santos but the company's board as well.
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The European Union requires senior executives at accounting firms to approve relationships with politically connected individuals like Ms. dos Santos, and to take "adequate measures" to ensure that a client's money comes from legitimate sources.
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The recently leaked documents provide a detailed account of how Ms. dos Santos exploited her country's resources, acquiring stakes in vital Angolan industries like telecommunications, diamonds and construction — often through orders signed by her father.
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Dedicated YouTuber The 8-Bit Guy is back, this time with a video taking us on a tour of laptop history, and showing us how to pick the best one for playing old MS-DOS games.
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The asset freeze applies to personal bank accounts of Ms. dos Santos, Mr. Dokolo and Mr. da Silva in Angola and stakes they hold in Angolan firms including Unitel, Banco de Fomento Angola and ZAP MIDIA.
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Microsoft even once came up with an Office Assistant for reviewers that took the form of an MS-DOS prompt, a Microsoft callback in itself, Sinofsky said in a video interview on Clippy's history earlier this year.
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In her email, Ms. dos Santos said that, beginning in the early 1990s, she had started "a small beverage distribution and logistics business," as well as a restaurant, an event production company and a walkie-talkie business.
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On Tuesday, PwC's global chairman, Bob Moritz, told The Guardian newspaper that he was "shocked and disappointed" by disclosures of what his firm did for Ms. dos Santos, and that the company would investigate and take action.
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IBM had been under aggressive antitrust investigation and litigation since 1967, so when it built a personal computer, it outsourced the operating system — MS-DOS — to Gates's company and allowed Gates to license it to other equipment makers.
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Although you're only getting a sandboxed emulation of the virus, for those of you who remember the days of Microsoft's Disk Operating System (MS-DOS), just seeing the malware animation might be enough to trigger some painful memories.
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A few years ago, the folks at Internet Archive ported a bounty of old MS-DOS games games for preservation, making games like Prince of Persia, Treasure Mountain, and Castle Wolfenstein available to anyone with an internet browser.
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Later, after Mr. Gates moved Microsoft to suburban Seattle, a succession of highly successful commercial products followed — the MS-DOS operating system, the Windows operating system and the Office collection of productivity programs, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
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The court said Ms. dos Santos had tried to transfer some of her businesses to Russia and that Portuguese police had blocked a transfer of 10 million euros ($11 million) from one of her business partners to Russia.
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Allen even created the original Micro-soft name in 1975, and the pair went on to design software for the Apple II and Radio Shack's TRS-80, which eventually led to Microsoft's MS-DOS operating system in the 1980s.
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While the general belief in popular culture dictates that Gates and Microsoft fleeced IBM over MS-DOS (the truth is more complicated), at the time IBM clearly felt it had a strong partner and joined forces with Microsoft again.
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Angola's attorney general, Hélder Pitta Grós, said on late Wednesday that Ms. dos Santos would be charged with "money laundering, influence peddling, harmful management" and "forgery of documents, among other economic crimes" committed when she ran the oil company.
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The announcement came days after a trove of documents obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and shared with The New York Times revealed Ms. dos Santos's efforts to profit on business dealings tied to the Angolan government.
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The listings all included a line about celebrating the 25th anniversary of DOOM, which first came out on MS-DOS in December 1993 and has since seen releases on about a dozen different platforms, including the Game Boy Advance and SNES.
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The Frankenstein of a device is also just a kitchen sink of every possible thing you could think to put in a handheld gadget in 1992, like a cell antenna, MS-DOS, solar cells (!), and a 3.5-inch diskette drive (!!!).
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Projecting both glamour and gravitas, Ms. dos Santos, worth $3.5 billion according to Forbes, mingles with Hollywood and European celebrities, and recently gave a speech at the London School of Economics — all of which she has documented on her Instagram account.
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Ms. dos Santos, 46, speaking to the BBC earlier this month, said the payments were earmarked for firms including the Boston Consulting Group, PwC and McKinsey & Company, with the shell company acting as an intermediary overseeing their work with Sonangol.
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Money-laundering experts and forensic accountants say PwC, which provided Ms. dos Santos with accounting and tax advice, worked with at least 20 companies she or her husband ran, as Angolan funds went missing, and signs of money laundering were overlooked.
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It starts out like a one-off joke or maybe a poor attempt at a nostalgic throwback for an OS that never really got much love in the first place: Introducing the all-new Windows 1.0, with MS-Dos Executive, Clock, and more!!
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Also, my memory is nowhere near good enough to know precisely which Oregon Trail this really is; the consensus seems to be that it's closer to the MS-DOS version than the Apple II, since you're able to freely walk around while hunting.
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He's posted the entire album to YouTube for your enjoyment, but if you can spare a 42 Kb download, you can also download it as an MS-DOS program and play it on your own X86 machine, or through a DOS emulator.
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The recently leaked documents provide a detailed account of how Ms. dos Santos exploited her country's resources, acquiring stakes in Angola's lucrative diamond industry, banks, its leading cement manufacturer and its largest mobile phone company — often through orders signed by her father.
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Beginning with MS DOS 3.10—which he notes wasn't even available as a retail product before version 5, you had to buy a whole computer to get your hands on it—he uses VirtualBox to install every Windows operating system from there on up.
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Ms. dos Santos was upstaged this year at Cannes only by her younger half brother, Danilo dos Santos, who was recently granted major shares in a new Angolan bank, according to the Angolan news media as well as politicians and businessmen in Luanda, Angola's capital.
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The leaked documents, which include emails, invoices, slide presentations and contracts, provided a paper trail showing how Ms. dos Santos and her husband, Sindika Dokolo, amassed a fortune of more than $2 billion through their stakes in vital Angolan industries like telecommunications, diamonds and construction.
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The leaked materials also revealed that in November 2017, when Ms. dos Santos was chairwoman of Angola's state oil company, Sonangol, more than $57 million was transferred from that company to the bank account of a Dubai company owned by a friend of hers.
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While details of the agreement were not disclosed, the two parties had previously said that they were negotiating a settlement under which CaixaBank would acquire Ms. dos Santos's 18.6 percent stake in BPI and, in return, sell BPI's Angolan bank, Banco de Fomento Angola, to her.
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A group of lawyers has tried unsuccessfully to remove Ms. dos Santos from her post, arguing that she, with no management track record or experience in the oil industry, was appointed by her father to erase evidence of her father's embezzlement at Sonangol before he steps down.
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The original Luigi's Mansion, which came out in 2001 for the GameCube, wasn't a super groundbreaking title, but it was the very first game in the Mario universe to star a playable Luigi since the enigmatic MS-DOS education title Mario is Missing from way back in 1993.
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"These guys hear about Isabel and they run like the Devil from the cross," Eduardo Sequeira, head of corporate finance for Fidequity, a Portuguese firm that manages many of Ms. dos Santos's companies, wrote in a 2014 email after the Spanish bank Santander turned down work with her.
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"These guys hear about Isabel and they run like the Devil from the cross," Eduardo Sequeira, head of corporate finance for Fidequity, a Portuguese firm that manages many of Ms. dos Santos's companies, wrote in a 2014 email after the Spanish bank Santander turned down work with her.
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Here are some questions Dialogue 3-D forces you to ponder before defending yourself against violent Nazi soldiers: This barebones version of the 1992 MS-DOS title is not really playable, much like how nonviolent protest wasn't exactly an option when taking the beaches of Normandy or liberating concentration camps.
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And it was Mr Allen who in 1981 negotiated the deal that became the basis for the firm's success: for less than $50,000 it bought the software written by a Seattle programmer, which would become the operating system, first called MS-DOS and then Windows, that ruled the computing world in the 1990s and early 2000s.
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In the past two years, her family has made a splash at the Cannes Film Festival: Ms. dos Santos sat in the front row of fashion shows, and Kim Kardashian cooed over a 22013-carat diamond paraded at a party thrown last year by de Grisogono, the Swiss jeweler now owned by the dos Santos family.
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