I do agree.
And for me its the other way.
Windows is to simple, so if it breaks no one knows what to do anymore.
On 11/03/2017 4:33 a.m., Travis Siegel wrote:
This is just plain wrong. Dos was not overly complicated, unix still
exists, and it is very similar to dos. The only thing dos didn't do was
multitask (though later versions of dos and 3rd party utilities did
solve this problem to some degree), the fact that you didn't understand
it doesn't make it complicated, confusing and useless. Unix is still in
very wide use today, and yes, even unix has gui interfaces, but ask any
decent system admin, and they'll tell you that if you need something
done quickly, and accurately, there's no substitute for a straight up
command line, since you can accomplish with a single command what might
take several clicks with a mouse, and (in rare cases) can't be done at
all using the gui.
Nothing wrong with dos, unix, or any other type of operating sytem, each
person uses what works for them, and that's just fine, that's the whole
point of choice afterall.
In your example, the reason your cd command din't change you to another
drive, is because changing drives is a simple as typing in the new drive
letter. You want drive d or drive e, just type d: or e:. That's all
there is to it.
But, in any case, this is way off topic for the list, so let's try to
limit discussions on this. The fact that you can still play dos games
whether it be with emulators, or by converting them to windows programs
by recompiling/rewriting them in modern languages/compilers shouldn't be
too far off topic though. I'd be more than willing to assist anyone
wishing to port dos games to windows if they have source code for said
games. It's often not a straightforward port, but it's also usually not
all that difficult either, just a matter of recoding to take advantage
of event driven instead of command driven interfaces. I'm perfectly to
help anyone needing/wanting help porting programs to windows, linux,
mac, or any other os I can get my hands on if I can make it talk. It's
extremely rewarding to see a program be revived from ashes, and see it
running on modern operating systems, not to mention it allows many
others to enjoy that program who might otherwise not have had the chance.
On Wed, 8 Mar 2017, 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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