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Nostalgia... DOS..

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Anyone remember DOS. I'm sure most of us older and some mildly younger folks do.

Ahh space invades and frogger. You served me well. Oh, and centipede.. and that darn space game i forgot your name!

:(

I have a computer from 1983 I believe and it still works.. o_O.. Am I old?
 
nick8571 said:
I still have my copy of "Leather Goddesses of Phobos" if that's what you mean....

...ahem... :eek:
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OMG, I remember that game. Not well, mind you, but the name sticks out. Oh, the memories.

Who else remember dealing with MEGAbytes of RAM? AND getting your comp to recognize more than 640k of it?
 
nick8571 said:
I still have my copy of "Leather Goddesses of Phobos" if that's what you mean....

...ahem... :eek:
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I still have the box of that in my garage.

Fire up VMplayer and download the Nostalgia VM appliance from the VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace, there's BLOCK in there and a bunch of other DOS games.
 
DOS games I liked...
Jill of the Jungle, Tyrian, Jazz Jackrabbit, Commander Keen, Epic Pinball, Quik, Monster Bash...I'm sure I'm missing some...
 
I just remember rebooting in ms-dos mode so you can play some games that wouldn't run in Windows.
 
Samury said:
OMG, I remember that game. Not well, mind you, but the name sticks out. Oh, the memories.

Who else remember dealing with MEGAbytes of RAM? AND getting your comp to recognize more than 640k of it?
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I remember when I was positively ecstatic to upgrade to 8MB from 4MB.

Ahhh, those were the days.
 
450 said:
DOS games I liked...
Jill of the Jungle, Tyrian, Jazz Jackrabbit, Commander Keen, Epic Pinball, Quik, Monster Bash...I'm sure I'm missing some...
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You just listed some of my favs too.

I remember my first brand new PC my dad bought me, Win 95 when 16mb RAM was $150. wayyyyyy back when.
 
I still have folowing software: Dos 5.0, Dos 6.1, Dos 6.22,Win 3.1, Win 3.11 for workgroups, win95, Win 05 w USB, win 98, Win 98SE, Win 2000, Win XPPro, Vista ultimate. Have run Dos and some old versions of Win in virtual machine. Lots of old software such as Qemm, Noton Utilities, Word 6.0 and 7.0. Think I still have original Wolfenstien. My first PC was a Packard Bell 486 SX25 with Dos 5.0 and Win 3.1. I think I still have a couple of 486's and an old Pentium in storeroom.
 
sprtnbsblplya said:
You just listed some of my favs too.

I remember my first brand new PC my dad bought me, Win 95 when 16mb RAM was $150. wayyyyyy back when.
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I remember building a pc with my dad way back in the day from computer shopper... each 1 mb of ram was like $33 dollars... lol
 
Nostalgia!

My first Intel machine was a 8088 at a blistering 4.77 MHz with a 20 meg MFM drive and CGA. My monitor could switch between amber and greenscreen. Yeah, I was THAT cool!

I remember fondly my first 486DX33. It was awesome when I upgraded from 4 megs to 8 megs of RAM. Win 3.1 ran so stinkin' fast!

And the great video games and of coure, Telix. All the cool kids used Telix.

Good times, I tell ya! Good times.
 
good times....old machines :) my how its changed

its all about running doom under dos. remember when the first pentium chips came out, and the doom games ran so fast in the demos, lol compared to your old 3/4/86
 
The first computer I owned was a Tandy Color Computer, aka as the CoCo. Now those were the days. No HD or even floppy when I bought my first one, cassette tape baby! Those were the days!
 
heatlesssun said:
The first computer I owned was a Tandy Color Computer, aka as the CoCo. Now those were the days. No HD or even floppy when I bought my first one, cassette tape baby! Those were the days!
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My first was a Commodore. Not even with a tape drive. I would code in programs from a mag and run them until the power was cut. I was so ecstatic when I got a Cassette drive for it that I could finally save stuff and even purchase a few programs on tape.Got a Floppy for it and then I moved up through the Commodore ranks with the 64, and later a 128D where I messed around with CPM for a bit. Wanted an Amiga when they came out, but never got one. Instead I jumped over to DOS on a 286 and it's been intel ever since.
 
twwabw said:
DOS5.0, first version of DosShell- ooh baby. It was the bomb!
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I've got this running in a Virtual PC image. Just for entertainment value. I haven't actually used such a thing to do real work in the last 15 years. More stable than Windows though. :D
 
DOS 5.0 w/ Dos Shell was the first operating system I ever used. It was installed on a 1988-era Everex 286-powered STEP which was the family computer. I also remember the mouse that was installed on that machine and how much of a piece of shit it was in Dosshell because it would randomly fail many times.
 
Phantoms said:
My first was a Commodore. Not even with a tape drive. I would code in programs from a mag and run them until the power was cut. I was so ecstatic when I got a Cassette drive for it that I could finally save stuff and even purchase a few programs on tape.Got a Floppy for it and then I moved up through the Commodore ranks with the 64, and later a 128D where I messed around with CPM for a bit. Wanted an Amiga when they came out, but never got one. Instead I jumped over to DOS on a 286 and it's been intel ever since.
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Yeah, sounds familiar. Not sure how the Commodore worked but the CoCo came with a cable that you could hook up to any cassette recorder with a jack and I just used one that I already had at first.

I was always envious of Commodore folks, it was a bigger platform but the CoCo had that really cool 6809 CPU for the day. Its a shame that Tandy didn't market it harder.

I think that people often forget these old platforms and wonder why Windows become so dominant. As much as it was nice to have the different platforms it also sucked massively at the same time.
 
I remember writing a batch file to swap my autoexec and config files to play Doom, since I normally ran SmartDrive and needed all 4MB of RAM to play Doom.

My first computer (not counting the Tandy 102 laptop I borrowed from school) was an 8MHz XT with 20MB MFM hard drive, 2400 baud modem and Hercules monochrome graphics, running DOS 3.3x. I ran a WWiV BBS for years...
 
Oh ya I made some batch files with multiple choice menus for doing different stuff. Heck if I remember what for. Man I miss the BBS days.
 
MechGeek said:
I remember writing a batch file to swap my autoexec and config files to play Doom, since I normally ran SmartDrive and needed all 4MB of RAM to play Doom.

My first computer (not counting the Tandy 102 laptop I borrowed from school) was an 8MHz XT with 20MB MFM hard drive, 2400 baud modem and Hercules monochrome graphics, running DOS 3.3x. I ran a WWiV BBS for years...
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I ran a RemoteAccess based board for years and was part of FidoNet back in the early 90s. I also ran DESQView so that I could browse my board while people called in.

Good times!

I think the first BBS I called in was in 83 or so.

Damn. I feel old. :)
 
MrkXCeL said:
Oh ya I made some batch files with multiple choice menus for doing different stuff. Heck if I remember what for. Man I miss the BBS days.
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Dude, I did that too. I had a set of them that gave menus that let me choose between booting to Windows, DOS, or choosing from my available games, a different number to select each one! And with different background colors to boot.

My first comp, that I purchased myself, was a 486/33 with a whopping 8 megs of RAM. The store I bought it from was really impressed I was buying so much... at $100/meg; luckily I did, because a few weeks later one of the main memory plants in Taiwan blew up or something, and all my friends had to settle for 4 megs at $200/meg. It also had a 40 MB HDD, ProAudio 16 sound card, AND a video card, a super cool VESA local bus one from Diamond, because that PCI crap wasn't gonna make it. Plus there was the cool 15 INCH interlaced display. I was like a god among men. I also bought X-Wing on 3.5 disks to really pimp it out.

I could have bought a 66 MHz comp, but my dad said I didn't need to waste my money on useless power.

Note - I eventually ran Win95 on it. It wasn't pretty.
 
best thing about DOS was the games....


Tie Fighter, Command and Conquer, Red Alert, Warcraft 2, Civilization, Raptor: Call of the Shadows, SimCity 2000, Wolfenstein/Doom, Syndicate/Syndicate Wars, Earthsiege, Mechwarrior 2, Quake

its really amazing that these awesome games ran on such a humble platform...
 
auswipe said:
I ran a RemoteAccess based board for years and was part of FidoNet back in the early 90s. I also ran DESQView so that I could browse my board while people called in.

Good times!

I think the first BBS I called in was in 83 or so.

Damn. I feel old. :)
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Ah, you're just a young pup. I was dialing into Dow Jones in 1977, and CompuServe in 1979 so... at 50 baud... w00t!!! On a Hayes modem that cost me over $1500. ;)

Those were the days...
 
brucedeluxe169 said:
best thing about DOS was the games....


Tie Fighter, Command and Conquer, Red Alert, Warcraft 2, Civilization, Raptor: Call of the Shadows, SimCity 2000, Wolfenstein/Doom, Syndicate/Syndicate Wars, Earthsiege, Mechwarrior 2, Quake

its really amazing that these awesome games ran on such a humble platform...
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I question your dedication to gaming if you reference any of the above besdies Civ and Wolf. Anything after that clearly dates yourself, especially since you picked Tie Fighter over X-Wing, plus the previous entries. Hell, Warcraft 2? Warcraft was something like 1996 and you mention the second version?

And SimCity 2000? that has a year in it. Come on.
 
Samury said:
I question your dedication to gaming if you reference any of the above besdies Civ and Wolf. Anything after that clearly dates yourself, especially since you picked Tie Fighter over X-Wing, plus the previous entries. Hell, Warcraft 2? Warcraft was something like 1996 and you mention the second version?

And SimCity 2000? that has a year in it. Come on.
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lolwut.... what is wrong with any of the above games... i think you might need your head examined...

and, warcraft 2 >>> warcraft
simcity 2000 >>> simcity
Tie Fighter = one of the best games *ever* made

picking older games than me doesnt make you cool (or mean you picked better games...)...
 
Hell, my all-time fave computer game - the one that actually drained more personal time into that void where you never get it back - was a relatively simply one (the best ones usually are, aren't they?) on the Commodore 64 called "Dino's Eggs."

Deceptively simple (again, they usually are) but a shitload of fun. I remember missing a lot of school over that game... but you can only be sick so much before the Mom-figure decides "Ok, next time he leaves his room that computer is going into a locked closet." :D

Ah, those were the days, truly. And yep, my lockpicking expertise started around that same time... "ain't no way in hell I'll be without my computer, woman..." ;)
 
brucedeluxe169 said:
best thing about DOS was the games....


Tie Fighter, Command and Conquer, Red Alert, Warcraft 2, Civilization, Raptor: Call of the Shadows, SimCity 2000, Wolfenstein/Doom, Syndicate/Syndicate Wars, Earthsiege, Mechwarrior 2, Quake

its really amazing that these awesome games ran on such a humble platform...
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What about Flight Unlimited for DOS? That was such a mind-blowing game for its day and it even had a decent physics subsystem built in for the planes. I remember spending hours just stressing the planes in flight until they exploded in mid-air. :D
 
brucedeluxe169 said:
lolwut.... what is wrong with any of the above games... i think you might need your head examined...

and, warcraft 2 >>> warcraft
simcity 2000 >>> simcity
Tie Fighter = one of the best games *ever* made

picking older games than me doesnt make you cool (or mean you picked better games...)...
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Someone needs to learn to take a joke. This is supposed to be a fun thread. Think of the Scotsman skit.
 
my apologies... ive been a bit more irritable on this forum lately than usual (probably has to do with going back to my parents' house the other day and finding out they "cleaned" out my old bedroom... and thew away all my old games :()
 
Okay I'll bite...

I played games like this on cmmodore 64 when I visited my brother:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Lee_(video_game)

On my first pc (a 286) at the lovely age of 10 I played games like this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_Persia_(1989_video_game)

TBH, I don't get the nostalgia here... A 286 and dos taught me about pcs, but I DO NOT miss the days of waiting to be the one person connecting to a BBS and configing stupid files just to get expanded memory to work.
 
brucedeluxe169 said:
my apologies... ive been a bit more irritable on this forum lately than usual (probably has to do with going back to my parents' house the other day and finding out they "cleaned" out my old bedroom... and thew away all my old games :()
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No apologies necessary. I understand.

Not too long ago, I found out that my mom had thrown out all my old Lego boxes. It wasn't pretty. On the plus side, she kept the pieces (and hopefully the manuals - I'm a little afraid to ask, or look at how she stored them).
 
I could not agree more. My first computer was a Packard Bell 486SX/33. It was purchased at Sears. The games were amazing. Wolfenstein was my life. my Dad and I bonded over that game. I remember fondly getting a package in the mail of dot-matrix printer sheets of level maps from him. Too cool. Other favorites were F-117 Stealth Fighter, Task Force 1942, and Strike Commander. Yes DOS was challenging to get some games to run, but it was a social exercise. I met so many great people while buying games or on BBS trying to figure out how to wrangle enough memory. Batch files were the best.
 
Oh man, definitely the games! I was so young I don't even remember the specs of that old piece of junk, but I'll always remember the games...

Wolfenstein, Doom, Duck Tales, some game called Matterhorn Screamer... okay I need to take a nostalgia break.
 
Samury said:
No apologies necessary. I understand.

Not too long ago, I found out that my mom had thrown out all my old Lego boxes. It wasn't pretty. On the plus side, she kept the pieces (and hopefully the manuals - I'm a little afraid to ask, or look at how she stored them).
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there are fan sites online that have all the manuals .... i actually used an online manual to figure out what pieces i needed to order to build a few setsi didnt have a few years ago...
 
Zellio2009 said:
Okay I'll bite...

I played games like this on cmmodore 64 when I visited my brother:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Lee_(video_game)

On my first pc (a 286) at the lovely age of 10 I played games like this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_Persia_(1989_video_game)

TBH, I don't get the nostalgia here... A 286 and dos taught me about pcs, but I DO NOT miss the days of waiting to be the one person connecting to a BBS and configing stupid files just to get expanded memory to work.
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I loved Bruce Lee for my Atari 400. I had such a blast with that video game. I liked the multi-player when I could be the green guy. I remember that joystick down made him yell and that always amused me for some reason.

Good memories!
 
STUNTS. Never have i seen so many bugs in a game actually add to the gameplay. Plus there's a map editor? Pshhh, screw every other driving simulator ever created.
 
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