So who remembers this DOS screen?

Duke · 10 Jun 2018 at 14:41

The amount of time spent trying to get IRQs right. I think earlier in the PC days I had a budget/no-name sound card but became easier once had a Sound Blaster 16

Anyone else get nightmares from similar screens?

Rroff · 10 Jun 2018 at 14:44

I remember having to do that for a few games hah - the annoying thing was I'd try a cocktail of pre-documented IRQs and memory locations, etc. and the one(s) that worked was often the one(s) that made least sense for my soundcard.

GamerCub · 10 Jun 2018 at 15:00

Gosh I remember doing that a few a times on the old games wise. Like Doom/Duke Nukem 3D/Tomb Raider/realms of the haunting etc

jsmoke · 11 Jun 2018 at 10:13

What about this.

faheemrazzaq · 11 Jun 2018 at 10:57

Sweet memories. It was painful in a good way.

JoeF1 · 11 Jun 2018 at 10:59

Never have i typed shutdown -a so fast in my life

Moley · 11 Jun 2018 at 11:18

jsmoke said:
What about this.

Smurf attack?

MissChief · 11 Jun 2018 at 11:29

Creating a boot disk specifically for TIE Fighter because of the XMS memory it needed to run.

Duke · 11 Jun 2018 at 12:24

MissChief said:
Creating a boot disk specifically for TIE Fighter because of the XMS memory it needed to run.

Children get it easy today!

Mel_P · 11 Jun 2018 at 12:30

Oh bring back Windows 98 2nd Edition!

m4cc45 · 11 Jun 2018 at 14:41

I more remember having to mess around with the config.sys to get drivers to load into high memory (LH cdrom.sys) just to give more base memory to run games.

Pesky CD drives always used to eat my memory.

M.

Jamesyboyjim · 11 Jun 2018 at 15:59

jsmoke said:
What about this.

haha yes, I remember disabling Zonealarm for a few seconds to allow something through and this git popping up!

Duke · 11 Jun 2018 at 17:50

Zonealarm - thats a throwback!

LewisRaz · 11 Jun 2018 at 20:39

Remember all the things from here

Had a .bat file premade for the shutdown -a haha

Pretty sure I had to format a PC once since zonealarm went mental and locked it down and I couldnt fix it

Deleted member 77746 · 11 Jun 2018 at 22:51

jsmoke said:
What about this.

MS blaster. I made a script to stop the system from shutting down.

I actually can’t remember what it was from the top of my head.

Deleted member 77746 · 11 Jun 2018 at 22:58

almoststew1990 · 12 Jun 2018 at 07:26

It's funny that this thread came up just as I was getting back into my DOS PC! Who remembers this kind of screen!

I've been playing games in Dos mode on my Windows 98 PC with a soundblaster Live with Soundblaster 16 compatibility (emulation of some kind). It has actually been quite smooth without any IRQ problems!

I played some Descent

Car and Driver (love the presentation in this)

And of course some Jill of the Jungle from Epic MegaGames, now just Epic and making GoW.

Hades · 18 Jun 2018 at 01:05

I lived Descent back in the day. Nice keyboard too

almoststew1990 · 24 Jun 2018 at 00:25

Hades said:
I lived Descent back in the day. Nice keyboard too

It's surprisingly playable with just the keyboard! Using arrows for pitch and yaw and W/S for thrust and and A and D for strafe. It's good fun if a bit maze-y. The keyboard is an ACER mechanical keyboard with an AT connector. No idea where it came from but it is nice and clicky. It used to look like this:

But after taking it apart and giving it a good scrub...

ZombieFan · 26 Jun 2018 at 21:29

This takes me back to the late ninties...

"Welcome to GameSpy"
"Let's get on with the killing"