Hmmm.
I do agree some of those commands are a bit inflexable.
the cd command yes you could switch folders but still remain in your
home drive.
You have to switch to that drive first.
But it all depends how you were brought up.
I was born in 1982, in 1991 I got my first computer.
for 5.5 years I used dos.
in 1996 I got my first windows system but still used dos.
in 2002 I got my next system with windows.
Still used dos for some stuff a bit less.
in 2006 I got my next system, still used dos a bit.
in 2010 I got another system.
Still used dos, though by then the system was dieing the battery got
vary hot and the drives were failing.
In 2011 I stopped using dos.
Its 2017 now and about 4 years back I got the system I am using now.
I only use windows, however through my teen years I used dos for gaming etc.
Its true I used the keysoft shell most of my life so the only time I
ever did true dos were reformats, setups, or gaming so I probably didn't
do much.
Where I had to do something complex I set a batch file to do it though I
have read more complex dos stuff.
Dos died with the later windows and the fact with 64 bit units ms is
really pushing dos out.
Problem is now everyone thinks that if the system puts an error out they
expect to click something for it to go away, no one appreciates how
things work.
Judging from your mail, you were either going through the electronic
borg process between worlds of windows and dos or you had a hard time of it.
Dos was a single task nightmare and sometimes I wished it could be a bit
better.
But I still liked it at times.
Even screen readers now are not as good as the dos ones were.
On 9/03/2017 5:18 a.m., john wrote:
Josh,
That's because dos commands are complicated, confusing, and involve far more
detail than 90% of computer users ever want to deal
with.
Consider the following basic example:
c:\users\john> cd e:
c:\users\john>
Change directory to e:? Why am I still in my home directory?
Its because cd is complicated and painful, and requires you to specify that you
want to change drives, and if you don't, it won't
tell you something went wrong.
It is generally a good thing that commandlines are shifting to only be used in
rare circumstances, because without this change,
computers would never have grown to be what they are today.
Also remember that most people don't know how to use dos because, quite simply,
its immensely limited.
Dos may have been great in its heyday, but that time is long past. 640kb of
memory can't even run hellow world now.
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From: "Joshua Kennedy" <joshknnd1...@gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2017 8:48
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Running DOS games on windows 10?
it amaizes me that people today do not know how to use even basic dos
commands. they don't know about stuff like extended memory, upper memory
blocks, how to enable them, the fact that for example lotus123 for dos
requires xmb and extended memory and upper memory to be enabled to run
and so on.
On 3/7/2017 5:52 PM, Ryan Conroy wrote:
Thanks, but can you tell me how to use it? Like give me an example of
how to run a game?
You can email me off list if you'd like to.
On 3/7/2017 2:58 PM, Joshua Kennedy wrote:
you can use talking dosbox with the asap screen reader and NVDA in
sleep mode, get it from
http://batsupport.com/unsupported/dosbox/talking_dosbox_Win3.1_Keynote_Keysoft.zip
On 3/6/2017 6:05 PM, Ryan Conroy wrote:
Hey guys,
Does anyone on here know how to run dos games on windows 10? I've
read about DOSBox, but have no idea how to use it. I downloaded it,
but I'm completely lost. If someone could help me with that, I'd
highly appreciate it. Other than that though, are there any other
ways to run DOS games on windows 10?
Thanks so much,
Ryan
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