Do you remember the good old days with Dos?

[dposse]

Do you remember the good old days when you were using DOS? I do, and thats why i'm making this thread. This thread is to talk about our memories of using DOS, from playing games to sending files on Telnet.

I don't really remember much. I was very young when my father was using DOS.( i was 5 or 6.) Anyway, i remember my dad trying to teach me the commands. It was really hard. I also remember the games. I still have one game. Its called "The House of Cards". Its a card game with Hearts, Gin, Spades and a few other games on it. Another thing i remember is watching my dad put in all these commands. I thought he was a genuis to remember all those commands. Good times.

So, what do you remember about using DOS? Post everything you remember here!

[Otaku Son]

Wouldn't this thread be better off in "General"?

Also, what the hell is Dos? Isn't that "2" in Spanish? Or do you mean DOS?

[CheshireThief]

I never had to use DOS. I didn't have a computer until I was a senior in high school. (Unless you want to count the Apple IIc I had, but that was BASIC, not DOS.)

[Otaku Son]

Okay, if we're typing about DOS, then I can give feedback. I thought this "Dos" was some kind of ancient-ass computer program sequel to the popular card game "Uno" or something.

DOS...all I ever used it for was to play games, really. A:/Bookdisk on Windows 3.1, and Dark Forces and ZSNES on Windows 95 and 98. I would probably keep using it to play some of my new games, if XP came with it.

[Toffeecake]

I used to love DOS games, especially the ones by Apogee. Of course, they were all pretty much the same, but who cares? I'd still play 'em if I could.

[SpokAvriel]

I still use DOS they did include Prompt for it in Win XP but it isn't the same.

Every system with Drives had to have some form of DOS Some of my favorite games were in MS Dos including Text Based RP's like Zork and a Lord of the rings adventure where the few and far between images were noticably plotted thru BASIC.

I still play some of those DOS Adventures a few times a week but lately I have been using SCUMMVM it handles most of the old Lucas Arts games like Indiana Jones or Day of the Tentacle.

I even have a few dozzen TSR D&D DOS RPG's that I have yet to finish it's kinda fun not having to do the math for the character reccord sheets.

DOS made it so easy to see the evolution of games starting from plotted colored text sprites on a ascii map, Oregon Trail and Troggle math, each progression in sound and graphics noticable I mean you could feel things getting better all the time.

Even the early racing games like the first incarnation of RC Pro-AM before it was taken to a console.

I still use my ZSNES, no$gmb, Nesticle, and other Emulators daily partly because I don't want to get up and change all the lines on the TV to play 20 min on the consoles.

Don't be suprised if I say more but I was wondering how is this going to be discussed? I mean this is on the discussion pages.

[C-dog]

Originally Posted by SpokAvriel

Don't be suprised if I say more but I was wondering how is this going to be discussed? I mean this is on the discussion pages.

It's probably not. It should be moved to General.

I still like to fiddle around with DOS once in a while. I've been using it to format floppy discs with weird cluster sizes lately. I like that I have the power over the cluster size, even though the default one is the most effecient use of disk space. Anyway, I always feel like I have more power over the computer in DOS. With a few keystrokes I could wipe the whole hard-drive if I wanted. I like that.

[SpokAvriel]

Well I know I had trouble locating the thread again after the move.

I wonder if anyone has ever used the Star Trek Virtual Tech Manual the first edditions of those were all out on DOS and included most of the tech you could find in the normal printed tech manuals including images drawn out in Ascii. Even uniform patterns were in there and it was fun to wonder if anyone else was making them.

If anyone can find an emulator that actually works better in windows than Dos (with still having a current Dos edition) then I would like to find the programmer it would be interesting to see how that could be achieved.

[shiney]

You know Otaku, it is pretty god damn blindingly OBVIOUS he meant DOS.

Something about your posts rubbed me the wrong way. I suggest you watch it.

[Crodevillian Team]

You know Otaku, it is pretty god damn blindingly OBVIOUS he meant DOS.

Agreed, and thank you.

I remember DOS as being this super intimidating thing that to this day I don't understand at all. I remember trying to play Alone in the Dark (the first one) through DOS, and being hardpressed to figure out any simple 'run' commands. I also remember a nice little "Object Oriented Programming" (or OOP as those of us with supreme programming abilities like to call it) thing called ZZT that ran through DOS. I used to totally knock myself out making horrible ASCII games. (It was easier than DOS.) That later led to MegaZeux, with which I used to totally knock myself out making slightly less horrible ASCII games. DOS itself is not quite as sentimental as the games I played through it. But, oh, how sentimental those games are...