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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Boroda on September 14, 2007, 06:24:11 PM
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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!
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Oh man. Flashback to DOS-SHELL. God I feel old and miss DOS 6 when it actually took talent to get a game working.
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whats a DOS?
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DOS is kinda like the Command(Run>cmd) thing on modern Windows machines. :confused:
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I was a DR-DOS (and subsequently Novell DOS) fan. Great stuff.
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QBasic and Gorrilla, that's all i'm going to say about that :)
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DOS= disk operating system. It's a computer command language.
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I know what it is I just wanted to make everyone feel old.:D
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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?
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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.
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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 :rofl
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But they promised 45k more free memory what else can a guy want?
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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 :rofl
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.
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640k memory is just enough for most people
- Bill Gates
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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.
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Originally posted by MrRiplEy[H]
But they promised 45k more free memory what else can a guy want?
:O That's outrageous! Who would ever need that much memory!?
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Know what I miss? HIMEM, and knowing if a program needs LOEMS or HIEMS. Remember what a super-bi*ch it was trying to get Falcon 3 to run on 8 megs of ram, with 4 megs of EMS in the background?
I remember spending hours tweaking the config.sys and the autoexec.bat sequencing, with rearranging the load sequences so we'd have just enough memory left over to load the sound drivers.
Ah, memories.
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Originally posted by Boroda
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.
I did that for my BBS software (Wildcat)
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Originally posted by AKIron
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?
I do :)
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Dos 4 - 6 mostly running an XTree Gold shell.
Was amazing what you could do, sky was the limit, err except multitasking. :)
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Know what I miss? HIMEM, and knowing if a program needs LOEMS or HIEMS. Remember what a super-bi*ch it was trying to get Falcon 3 to run on 8 megs of ram, with 4 megs of EMS in the background?
I remember spending hours tweaking the config.sys and the autoexec.bat sequencing, with rearranging the load sequences so we'd have just enough memory left over to load the sound drivers.
I did the same thing with Aces of the Pacific. I was up until about 3:00 am trying to free up a whole 5k of low mem so I could run the game without a boot disk but still with all my hardware enabled.
Later I used 386 Max, and it was OK but I had problems and shifted to QEMM which was superior IMO.
My first GUI (so to speak) was in DOS 3 using a home made text file/autoexec.bat menu Hit A for Falcon (which launched "a.bat") I was so 31337 :)
Those were the days. Back when I could understand how an OS actually worked and manipulate it without a CS degree. Flashing a bios about does it for me these days.
Charon
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Geeez....I remember all of this...and external cassette tape drives, external 5-1/4" floppies, EGA, XGA, 150 MEGA-byte hard drives,.......
I feel old.....
(http://www.mountainpridemedia.org/oitm/issues/2001/oct2001/oct2001_photos/old.jpg)
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Originally posted by C(Sea)Bass
whats a DOS?
Death of Seabass??