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I had an elaborate batch-file based scheme for swapping in different versions of both autoexec.bat and config.sys, depending on what I needed/wanted to do. It
by ubermonkey 5y ago
I had an elaborate batch-file based scheme for swapping in different versions of both autoexec.bat and config.sys, depending on what I needed/wanted to do.
It sucked.
- beervirus 5y agoHa, me too. And although I do look back on those days with rose-colored glasses… it did kind of suck having to futz with that stuff just to get a game to load.
- mixmastamyk 5y agoThe hardware sucked too! IRQ conflicts and changing jumpers! And better not close the case before you verified the new settings. :-D
- mook 5y agoI think newer versions of config.sys (relatively speaking) had a menu system that greatly simplified that. It would set some environment variable to let autoexec.bat jump to the correct section too, I believe. Ah, Wikipedia says it's since MS-DOS 6.
- ubermonkey 5y agoI don't even remember that -- but I suspect it's because by the time Win 3 was a Thing, I was working in it almost exclusively and had little need for DOS-based things. I'm not sure I ever ran DOS > about v 5.