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" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2017 8:48
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
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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