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Oh, DOS. Fond memories. My first experience was the 3.x era. Does anyone else remember DR-DOS?
by TheDudeMan 3y ago
Oh, DOS. Fond memories.
My first experience was the 3.x era. Does anyone else remember DR-DOS?
- shzhdbi09gv8ioi 3y agoI remember my cousin ran DR-DOS 6 on their PC.
- b3lvedere 3y agoYes. Many years ago when i worked for a computer shop, i was kinda 'forced' by the shop owner to sell it whenever a new computer was sold. He bought lots of it and nobody would buy it. I hated it. Back in the BBS era i loved 4DOS, but looking back in hindsight it was just a bunch of extra tools on top of MS-Dos.
- TheDudeMan 3y agoI had that one, too. Good stuff. Yeah, just tools, but useful.
- aidenn0 3y agoI had a single game that, AFAICT, the CD-ROM version couldn't run on MS-DOS the normal way because the intro it showed needed more conventional memory that was possible with mscdex loaded[1]. There was a workaround that consisted of running the program that would resume from the latest save, then exiting to the main menu. If you had a large enough hard-drive, you could also run it by copying the data to your hard drive, then manually pointing the game at the path (thus allowing you to omit the CD-ROM driver). I managed to get it to run off the CD by using the nwcdex (From Novell Dos 7, after Novell purchased Digital Research), which could load itself into EMS. 1: This was the CD-ROM version of Master of Magic. The intro needed approximately 630KB of conventional memory to run.
- UncleSlacky 3y agoI enjoyed playing the built-in "Advanced NetWars" game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetWars#Legacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetWars#Legacy