Happy Birthday MS-DOS

nade · 27 Jul 2011 at 17:33

Echo Hip hip horray

On another note, what a pain in the arse it was to try and get Doom running, gotta love the dos memory management :rolleyes:

stockhausen · 27 Jul 2011 at 17:35

As he said - "The performance on [MS-DOS] is quite stunning.

Good old Microsoft - can always be relied on to slow things down.

Hairybudda · 27 Jul 2011 at 17:45

DOS=HIGH,UMB

Happy birthday MSDOS, you used to own!

sigma · 27 Jul 2011 at 17:53

I wonder how many people would know what you're on about if you asked them if they remembered MS-DOS.

Psycho Sonny · 27 Jul 2011 at 17:58

Ewaf said:
Wow, the guy in that video is never going to get laid.

Dj_Jestar said:
The guy in that Video is the OP

LMAO - Epic

Justintime · 27 Jul 2011 at 18:06

kae2 said:
Only to find the 12th disk was corrupt...

Or missing, or someone retabbed it and copied Secret Agent: The Hunt for Red Rock Rover on a few disks, this happened to me once :mad:

d_brennen · 27 Jul 2011 at 18:09

Still rocking dos 6 on bootable usb drive. Very useful for bios and gpu bios updates

Pawnless Endgame · 27 Jul 2011 at 18:48

I'm running Win 7 here, but I still prefer a DOS box for some programs e.g. unrar for RAR archives, Hjsplit for splitting files. And of course DOS is still essential for some network diagnostics like ipconfig and ping.

As for real mode DOS, probably up until last year when I finally sold an old Win 98 PC.

Werewolf · 27 Jul 2011 at 18:51

kae2 said:
Only to find the 12th disk was corrupt...

Surely disk 19...

I don't miss those days, it used to take a couple of hours of floppy swapping to install Office...

Having said that, Dos was a great way of imposing a test upon would be PC gamers.
Can you get X working with Sound, CD and Mouse support?
If not you're not a PC gamer...

Captain Chaos · 27 Jul 2011 at 21:11

Bring back DOS. Cant beat a bit of memmaker lol.

I miss having to faff around with autoexec.bat and config.sys to get a game to work lol

tres · 27 Jul 2011 at 21:28

I miss "mem" as well... but it wasn't all mem you were interested in.. conventional memory? Something really really annoying you had to have enough of

Stolly · 27 Jul 2011 at 22:16

Can't believe how fast Win 3.11 loaded in that VM. Took minutes on the machines of the time.

Berserker · 27 Jul 2011 at 22:21

AcidHell2 said:
Isn't it dead. So no birthday.

Didn't it die with xp?

Support may be dead, but if you have a copy, you can still use it. They didn't even bother with license keys back then.

My PC experience started with DOS 3 and Windows 1. Am I showing my age?

Glaucus · 27 Jul 2011 at 22:28

Berserker said:
Support may be dead, but if you have a copy, you can still use it. They didn't even bother with license keys back then.

My PC experience started with DOS 3 and Windows 1. Am I showing my age?

Yes, I remember windows 3.1

Edit - actually looking at screen shots I remember 2.x but not 1.x

contracteur · 27 Jul 2011 at 22:41

C:\DOS
C:\DOS\RUN
RUN\DOS\RUN

topgun06 · 27 Jul 2011 at 22:59

2StepSteve said:
Ewaf said:

Wow, the guy in that video is never going to get laid.

Click to expand...

Dj_Jestar said:

The guy in that Video is the OP

Click to expand...

LOL!

Hahahaha!

SexyGreyFox · 27 Jul 2011 at 23:06

Freefaller · 27 Jul 2011 at 23:08

Ah that brings back memories... fighting with memory and loading drivers into memory to be able to launch a game/program!

SexyGreyFox · 27 Jul 2011 at 23:12

Morbius · 27 Jul 2011 at 23:23

Freefaller said:
Ah that brings back memories... fighting with memory and loading drivers into memory to be able to launch a game/program!

Seems so long ago now.

Happy Birthday MS-DOS

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