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One part of the early authentic Windows 3.1 experience for some people (that is missing here) is having a DOS-based menu show up when you boot up your computer
by jaredsohn 13y ago
One part of the early authentic Windows 3.1 experience for some people (that is missing here) is having a DOS-based menu show up when you boot up your computer and then clicking on the Windows item or typing 'win' from the DOS prompt if you want to run some Windows-based program.
- TazeTSchnitzel 13y ago...what? I had win.com in autoexec.bat
- jaredsohn 13y agoSome problems with booting directly into Windows (it was eventually included within my autoexec.bat, but not for awhile.) * Some DOS-based menu programs were really nice. I grew up using X-Tree Gold which had a menu but was also really fast for doing file system operations. * Some DOS programs wouldn't work well in Windows (programs using serial ports, games), even if you set up PIFs. * While in Windows, you couldn't use your TSRs (so you'd have to run the programs in non-TSR mode and set up different hotkeys for them and get used to the changes.)
- TazeTSchnitzel 13y agoSure, but if you needed DOS you could always just exit Windows.