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minus-squareMuskyMelon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up25·8 months agoIf you’ve had to mess around with EMM386 and HIMEM settings to play Wing Commander 2, you win.
minus-squareTexas_Hangover@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·8 months agoAutoexec.bat’s and boot disks for everything ftw.
minus-squarebarsoap@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoLet me blow your mind. People are probably running FreeDOS nowadays though which uses a different syntax.
minus-squareMuskyMelon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoYup eventually did this with DOS 6. Suffered from DOS 1 until then.
minus-squareMuskyMelon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 months agoI learnt how to use a custom autoexec.bat that had a menu to select the different memory configs. That was a godsend!
minus-squareSamskara@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·8 months agoThat knowledge is completely useless now.
minus-squareMuskyMelon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 months agoSpeaking of nuclear war, did you play this game: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_War_(video_game) It was hilarious! Gandhi was launching nukes before Civ 1!
minus-squareTar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 months agoa nullmodem is what we had too! I remember copying over Warcraft 1 from one computer to the other over most of a day, and it then not working.
If you’ve had to mess around with EMM386 and HIMEM settings to play Wing Commander 2, you win.
Autoexec.bat’s and boot disks for everything ftw.
Let me blow your mind.
People are probably running FreeDOS nowadays though which uses a different syntax.
Yup eventually did this with DOS 6. Suffered from DOS 1 until then.
I learnt how to use a custom autoexec.bat that had a menu to select the different memory configs. That was a godsend!
That knowledge is completely useless now.
Ahhh happy days and nights.
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Speaking of nuclear war, did you play this game:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_War_(video_game)
It was hilarious! Gandhi was launching nukes before Civ 1!
a nullmodem is what we had too! I remember copying over Warcraft 1 from one computer to the other over most of a day, and it then not working.