Pseudo_Intellectual (66362) on 12/1/2007 8:29 PM · Permalink · Report

When your previous computer was a TRS-80 CoCo, let me tell you, having MS-DOS at your fingertips was like one of those lucid dreams where you can fly and transform inanimate objects into nubile young women.

Legion on 12/5/2007 1:35 AM · Permalink · Report

I love Dos, dosbox is just about my favorite thing in the world playing some of the old favorites. And they take up almost no space too.

Shoddyan (15004) on 12/26/2007 6:33 AM · Permalink · Report

[Q --start DANIEL HAWKS ! wrote--]Does anyone remeber using Windows 95 ? I do. Someone gave us a Windows 95 computer when they got Windows 98. I remeber using a DOS computer too and being less than interested. I was about eight using the non-DOS pc. Anyonelse ? [/Q --end DANIEL HAWKS ! wrote--]

Remember it? Heck... I still have some of the CDs that microsoft "gave" me (Cinemania 94 and some reference thing that's not Encarta and that I didn't use often enough) when they were running around to trade shows trying to get everyone using this new Operating system. Cue the Rolling Stones singing "Start Me Up!"

Daniel Saner (3503) on 1/20/2008 3:19 PM · Permalink · Report

I started with DOS and the progressed through Win 3.11, 95a, 95b, 98, 98 SE, Me, XP. I remember DOS and what a trouble it was to get some games to run. Changing, commenting and uncommenting lines in AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS, maybe even creating bootdisks... using MEMMAKER to free up those last couple of kilobytes needed to run the game, breaking the whole system in the process so you had to reinstall... but I still remember it quite fondly! I learned a lot, and sometimes it was already a success to only get a game to run. I was about seven back then. I doubt that you learn that much today, when everything is hidden beyond a fun and colourful interface you can click around in.

I only really used Win 3.11 for Windows games, and writing in Word. But I do remember how you had to reinstall Windows practically everytime you added, removed or reconfigured a driver, haha. The situation was always very precarious, you had to be careful what you touched. Using it today it really makes you see that, although there are still a lot of nuisances, Windows has come a long way...

In our office we installed an "oldschool computer" dedicated to DOS games. It has MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11 on it, just like my old computer back then. But I was a bit disappointed - most of the games just run without problems, even with sound! That wasn't how I remembered it! Maybe it's because they built in hardware that was quite common back in the day. I might have had more obscure hardware. We also have a 20 GB harddrive with only 2 GB formatted because of the FAT16 limit ;)

I actually attended some sort of Windows 95 launch event in Switzerland with my father. I don't remember much, but it was pretty exciting. Win 3.11 was more a shell than anything else, so Win95 was the first actual operating system with a graphical user interface I used. There was a lot to play around with and a lot of new stuff to break.

Today, running it in Virtual PC, I find it rather cumbersome... For running old Win95 games, I prefer using Windows 98, it feels a lot more intuitive. But I still keep my Win95-CD around, with those low-quality videoclips, and the software catalogue, and that cool Hover game... (is it really possible that nobody added this to MG yet?!?)