Author Topic: MS-DOS 5 promo video (Read 495 times)

Boroda · « **on:** September 14, 2007, 06:24:11 PM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmEvPZUdAVI

OMG and I feel 1991 was just yesterday... Who remembers the difference between DOS 3.20, 3.30, 4.01, 5, 6.0 and 6.22 now? And a toy for real geeks - DR-DOS! Or even stuff like PTS-DOS!

Wolfala · « **Reply #1 on:** September 14, 2007, 06:37:43 PM »

Oh man. Flashback to DOS-SHELL. God I feel old and miss DOS 6 when it actually took talent to get a game working.

C(Sea)Bass · « **Reply #2 on:** September 14, 2007, 06:52:43 PM »

whats a DOS?

Wes14 · « **Reply #3 on:** September 14, 2007, 07:15:36 PM »

DOS is kinda like the Command(Run>cmd) thing on modern Windows machines.

Chairboy · « **Reply #4 on:** September 14, 2007, 07:16:56 PM »

I was a DR-DOS (and subsequently Novell DOS) fan. Great stuff.

SoulTakr · « **Reply #5 on:** September 14, 2007, 07:22:48 PM »

QBasic and Gorrilla, that's all i'm going to say about that

john9001 · « **Reply #6 on:** September 14, 2007, 07:46:26 PM »

DOS= disk operating system. It's a computer command language.

C(Sea)Bass · « **Reply #7 on:** September 14, 2007, 10:51:13 PM »

I know what it is I just wanted to make everyone feel old.

AKIron · « **Reply #8 on:** September 14, 2007, 10:58:02 PM »

I missed out on using MS-DOS 1 but got in on the fun with version 2 and every other after. Version 4 was the biggest pos of the bunch and 5 was probably the most eagerly anticipated with the built-in improved memory features.

A side note: Who remembers using Quarterdeck's QEMM?

Chairboy · « **Reply #9 on:** September 14, 2007, 11:26:27 PM »

Dunno how to break it to you, C(sea)Bass, but you pretty much have to stop posting now that you're at 420 posts. Anything else, and you're a total sellout.

LePaul · « **Reply #10 on:** September 14, 2007, 11:57:48 PM »

Oh wow.

See I remember working part time at the local Eletronics Boutique (EB for CSeaBass) back in those days. Oh the endless calls, walking people through their config.sys and autoexec.bat files just to free up memory to run the games of the day

MrRiplEy[H] · « **Reply #11 on:** September 15, 2007, 01:09:12 AM »

But they promised 45k more free memory what else can a guy want?

C(Sea)Bass · « **Reply #12 on:** September 15, 2007, 01:13:13 AM »

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Originally posted by LePaul
Oh wow.

See I remember working part time at the local Eletronics Boutique (EB for CSeaBass) back in those days. Oh the endless calls, walking people through their config.sys and autoexec.bat files just to free up memory to run the games of the day

EB is GameStop now...at least around here:D
I do remember Eletronic Boutique though, I but my first game there, Jane's Advanced Tactical Fighters.
I actually do have a game now that still uses DOS. It's the first version of Silent Hunter.

1K3 · « **Reply #13 on:** September 15, 2007, 02:18:27 AM »

640k memory is just enough for most people

- Bill Gates

Boroda · « **Reply #14 on:** September 15, 2007, 03:26:27 AM »

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Originally posted by AKIron
A side note: Who remembers using Quarterdeck's QEMM?

Oh, QEMM! Much better memory management then even DR-DOS built-in system.

IIRC Quarterdeck also made Desqview, a multitasking environment for DOS, people ran BBS software in background with it.