Nostalgia time: MS-DOS memory management!

simulatorman said:
It's full of DOS veterans who don't need to be told where the start button is. :p
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For us it was the 'Turbo' button. :)

Edit: Did anyone else used to make directories with spaces in the names by using the ASCII char for a space (Alt-255) rather than pressing space; then watch and chuckle as nobody could CD into them or figure out how they had been created? :D
 
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I remember being mega excited about getting dos 6.2.2!!

Endless autexec and config.sys changes ftw!

I want to be young again :'(
 
I remember having to load my PC into DOS mode to get CM working due to limited memory, around about 94/95 - was my first upgrade increasing the capacity. Can't remember by what though. :D
 
Dimple said:
Back then geek talk was "How much base memory you got?"
"637"
"No way, I've only got 636, how do you get that?"
and so on

Kids today don't know how much we had to re-write config.sys and autoexec.bat files to get stuff working
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I don't even know what you're talking about :p

Although I did rewrite autoexec.bat on an old Win95 machine when I was quite young, it had been sent off to the computer shop a couple of weeks before hand and they weren't able to fix it so I was let loose on it, and managed to fix it (and without google too).
 
I remember the days, emm386 & himem.sys. :p

It used to be a nightmare with games that needed >600K base memory and CD-ROM driver (mscdex?) loaded.
 
How many of you remember sound cards having 3 ports on the back for the 3 different types of CD-Roms which were Matsui, Panasonic and Matsu****a.
I then bought one with a 4th port on called IDE and thought this will never catch on :D



Just noticed the OCUK naughty word checker has starred out the poo word in the manufacturer :D
 
Dimple said:
How many of you remember sound cards having 3 ports on the back for the 3 different types of CD-Roms which were Matsui, Panasonic and Matsu****a.
I then bought one with a 4th port on called IDE and thought this will never catch on :D

Just noticed the OCUK naughty word checker has starred out the poo word in the manufacturer :D
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Wasn't the third one Sony or Phillips? Panasonic/Matsu****a are the same company, they just created the name Panasonic to use internationally for obvious reasons (until they adopted it in Japan too in 2008 to simplify things).
 
I still use a copy of Elonex branded MS-DOS 5 occasionally. Last had it running on a Dell. My 286-12.5MHz was supplied with DOS 6 and a 6.2 upgrade, lemmings FTW. It had 1Mb of memory, 640kb base and 384kb extended. Many hours were spent fine tuning TSR programs and loading into high memory. I upgraded it to 2Mb for windows 3.1 at a massive £70 cost.
 
Ceryndrion said:
Coulda sworn it was the other way around, the irq being 5 and the i/o port being 220
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OMG you guys still remember the correct config ahaha, hoo fond memories ;)

And then again you rebooted and it was confliting with the Serial port IRQ or DMAs... zzz thre we go again recheck .Bats or config. sys....
 
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mattyprice4004 said:
Jesus, it's a thread full of granddads :p
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Not quite :)

I am 35, and my first pc was a 386sx-25.

This thread brings back a lot of good memories. Countless hours reconfiguring autoexec.bat and config.sys so I could brag to my mates at school :)

Anyone else remember the Golf game Links386? Spent a lot of time playing it.

And I also remember Microsoft Office on 32 floppy discs. You would inevitably get to disc 31 before it was corrupted and had to start again.
 
I can't believe I'm watching this video. I'm only 21 and I just find this all so funny. They all seem so serious! Definitely needs more beards too like the old geography programs you get forced to watch in school.
 
Ahh the good old days of Dos. I remember using a 386 with 10 Mb HDD and dos 6.2 and win 3.1 on my course and then for my 18th birthday my parents got me a 486DX 66mhz, 4 Gb Ram and 420 mb HDD. I upgraded that machine to 8 Mb Ram and a Pentium OD 83 Mhz chip by intel.

Creating dos disks to get the games to run those were the days. I remember trying to get a Star Trek game to run and it must have took me all afternoon and evening to get enough memory to run it, I think I needed 593K free and I really struggled to load everything in.

And the sense of a eureka moment when I got the memory free and the game loaded and ran :D The good old days when you knew how to use and fully understand a PC and its O/S. I am 35 by the way.
 
heheh the most i did when i was a kid was make a boot disc and shove rem before a bunch of lines in the confi.sys and autoexec.bat. since my pc only had 4mb ram i had to do this with pretty much anything which required 4mb. flight of the amazon queen was a massive bugger to get working lol. i remember i had this program called power menu to load all my dos games, and i made it so when windows exited, it gave a message like you may now turn off your pc or press any key to go to power menu or something else to exit to dos, then when you exited power menu another message would appear saying press something to return to windows or press something else to go to dos! now my fancy asus transformer pad with dosbox running a pentium 75 and 32mbytes of ram i dont have any trouble lol!
 
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Your all old :p

Just think what it will be like in 30 years time?
"Wow, how did we used do manage with only 4 cores and 8GBs RAM! I can't believe we actually had to wait for things to download! 1920x1080? Pfff, my watch has a higher resolution!"

:D
 
acharris said:
Creating dos disks to get the games to run those were the days. I remember trying to get a Star Trek game to run and it must have took me all afternoon and evening to get enough memory to run it, I think I needed 593K free and I really struggled to load everything in.
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Would that be Star Trek: 25th Anniversary?

(off topic: I recently felt really old when I realised that this year was TNG's 25th anniversary... TNG'S!!!!!:eek: )
 
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