DOS 6.22 IS ENDGAME

[iLLucionist]

WordPerfect 5.2 for word processing, lotus 1-2-3 for spreadsheets. Enough games.

If only we could convert geekhack to BBS and implement TCP/IP in DOS, and have ethernet (RJ45) nics in DOS.

What else do we need? We don't need facebook. Twitter can be put into text mode. E-mail can be text already.

And then we need svga 9gag.exe in does... that's the only issue here.

Wikipedia and google can be text as well..

IT WILL WORK I PROMISE

[tp4tissue]

i remember 20+ years ago,  I was at the hydroelectric administrative office, and we just got computers with dos , when everyone would go home, I would stay at work and play lode-runner..    fall asleep there,  and just continue the next day like nothing happened..

Was addicted !!

[iLLucionist]

i remember 20+ years ago,  I was at the hydroelectric administrative office, and we just computers with dos , when everyone would go home, I would go to the computer station and play lode-runner..

Was addicted !!

It was soo good. Great memories, miss it. Productivity software felt also more productive.

I played most of the games. wolf3d, doom, doom2, quake, command and conquer, commander keen, crystal caves, everything apogee, etc. AWESOME

[tp4tissue]

It was soo good. Great memories, miss it. Productivity software felt also more productive.

I played most of the games. wolf3d, doom, doom2, quake, command and conquer, commander keen, crystal caves, everything apogee, etc. AWESOME

Those were much later..

After lode runner,  i was on the streets for a long time, and didn't have any more access to computer dos for several years..

on the streets we had mostly nintendos and nintendo clones..

They ran the machines like at an arcade, gambling parlor, it was pay for minutes of play and casino..


I stole cigarettes and this is where i spent them..  eventually they just let me hang out because I got so good at punchout, I was able to hustle everyone betting at the time.

[iLLucionist]

It was soo good. Great memories, miss it. Productivity software felt also more productive.

I played most of the games. wolf3d, doom, doom2, quake, command and conquer, commander keen, crystal caves, everything apogee, etc. AWESOME

Those were much later..

After lode runner,  i was on the streets for a long time, and didn't have any more access to computer dos for several years..

on the streets we had mostly nintendos and nintendo clones..

They ran the machines like at an arcade, gambling parlor, it was pay for minutes of play and casino..


I stole cigarettes and this is where i spent them..  eventually they just let me hang out because I got so good at punchout, I was able to hustle everyone betting at the time.

Rough life... at least you got back into computahs!

[xtrafrood]

I pressed ESC and somehow posted in this thread. My ESC key.. why do you let me down

[iLLucionist]

I pressed ESC and somehow posted in this thread. My ESC key.. why do you let me down

YOUR ESC KEY WANTED TO POST HERE ;-)

[Arallu]

Most all of these games were MS-DOS releases. Windows (3.11) was just another application that DOS ran back then.
Until late 1996 when games were coming out to specifically run on Windows95, e.g. Diablo, they still were mostly launched from the underlying DOS command prompt.

So many great games.

Wing Commander	1990
Civilization	1991
Duke Nukem	1991
Might and Magic IV	1991
Wolfenstein 3D	1992
Betrayal at Krondor	1993
Doom	1993
Star Wars: X-Wing	1993
X-Com	1994
Doom 2	1994
System Shock	1994
Warcraft	1994
Command & Conquer	1995
Warcraft II	1995
Quake	1996

And lots of the SSI games.

[iLLucionist]

Most all of these games were MS-DOS releases. Windows (3.11) was just another application that DOS ran back then.
Until late 1996 when games were coming out to specifically run on Windows95, e.g. Diablo, they still were mostly launched from the underlying DOS command prompt.

So many great games.

Wing Commander	1990
Civilization	1991
Duke Nukem	1991
Might and Magic IV	1991
Wolfenstein 3D	1992
Betrayal at Krondor	1993
Doom	1993
Star Wars: X-Wing	1993
X-Com	1994
Doom 2	1994
System Shock	1994
Warcraft	1994
Command & Conquer	1995
Warcraft II	1995
Quake	1996

And lots of the SSI games.

I PLAYED ALL OF THOSE.

Memories... memories... it was soo good

[rowdy]

DOS days were good days.

[chyros]

I still regularly play many DOS games on DOSBox. There were just so many great and quirky games back then.

Here's an old clip of me playing One Must Fall 2097 against the final and secret final bosses, for example.

[iLLucionist]

DOS days were good days.

The. BEST.

[rowdy]

FreeDOS lives on!

[romevi]

i remember 20+ years ago,  I was at the hydroelectric administrative office, and we just got computers with dos , when everyone would go home, I would stay at work and play lode-runner..    fall asleep there,  and just continue the next day like nothing happened..

Was addicted !!

How old are you? You look in your twenties, maybe early thirties, in your pics.

[nugglets]

Most all of these games were MS-DOS releases. Windows (3.11) was just another application that DOS ran back then.
Until late 1996 when games were coming out to specifically run on Windows95, e.g. Diablo, they still were mostly launched from the underlying DOS command prompt.

So many great games.

Wing Commander	1990
Civilization	1991
Duke Nukem	1991
Might and Magic IV	1991
Wolfenstein 3D	1992
Betrayal at Krondor	1993
Doom	1993
Star Wars: X-Wing	1993
X-Com	1994
Doom 2	1994
System Shock	1994
Warcraft	1994
Command & Conquer	1995
Warcraft II	1995
Quake	1996

And lots of the SSI games.

Those are all great games, but DOS reminds me of things like Quest For Glory, Indiana Jones, Kings Quest, Ultima, Elite, Earl Weaver Baseball... And of course, Oregon Trail 

[chyros]

Also the Bullfrog games. Dungeon Keeper, Syndicate Wars, Magic Carpet 2, Theme ...

[Leslieann]

Meh, you can keep your memory leaks and manually configured ram to ensure max performance.

I remember tweaking memory, fighting sound card settings, and of course, LOW RESOLUTION. You can keep it.

[tp4tissue]

Meh, you can keep your memory leaks and manually configured ram to ensure max performance.

I remember tweaking memory, fighting sound card settings, and of course, LOW RESOLUTION. You can keep it.

For older guyz like Tp4,    playing dos games relative to (modern games) is the same revelation as  reading wiki-synopsis relative to watching (movies).



In the movie, we see this complicated expensive scene, of someone walking down the street..

Or we read on the wikipedia , jennifer walks down the street, she purchased a hotdog, it was haunted, ghost marries jennifer


It's just so much more efficient to receive that information via the text, instead of watching the movie.. Now I don't have to watch the movie.




And the Dos games in a similar fashion puts you closer to the Table simulation behind the curtain.



Taking it further we can stop playing most games, and just read the wiki- synopsis.

[Leslieann]

Taking it further we can stop playing most games, and just read the wiki- synopsis.

Not only have I done that, but i also watched someone play through a game on Youtube (Deadpool).

Honestly, I think it was probably more enjoyable that way. You got all the jokes without repeating everything 20 times when you failed.

[tp4tissue]

Taking it further we can stop playing most games, and just read the wiki- synopsis.

Not only have I done that, but i also watched someone play through a game on Youtube (Deadpool).

Honestly, I think it was probably more enjoyable that way. You got all the jokes without repeating everything 20 times when you failed.

I go for maximum reduction myself..


So, they're selling an entertainment product..


I read reviews, oh it's good.. about tomatoes

Ok,   I read the genre,  Comedy..



I laugh to myself, thinking about something funny related to tomatoes..   And I'm done..


Don't gotta go further than that..

[xtrafrood]

The first REAL DOS game I played beat the pants off any of the Atari 2600 games that I played previously. Kingdom Of Kroz was amazing. Ascii side-scroller with all the components of Commander Keen but Ascii goodness. Flippy's Circus Coins couldn't hold a candle to Kroz's Kingdom. I was four. Cut me some slack. Jack.



Also, I somehow played Mega Man via DOS before I knew of an NES version. That was a mistake. 5fps :/ Our Commodore (PC-II..?) business class PC couldn't keep up.

[Leslieann]

Most all of these games were MS-DOS releases. Windows (3.11) was just another application that DOS ran back then.
Until late 1996 when games were coming out to specifically run on Windows95, e.g. Diablo, they still were mostly launched from the underlying DOS command prompt.

So many great games.

You missed Falcon 3 and 4.
Arguably the best fighter flight simulator built.

While joysticks ruin it (if you know what the real thing feels like), I can personally attest, the flight mechanics are on point.

[digi]

DOS 6.22 is all we needed!!!

C:>\ cd sierra
cd Kings Quest VI
sierra.exe

Adlib sound card ready. peewwww.

[digisax]

If Unity and Arduino dev could be done on DOS I'd consider using it. Unfortunately thanks to Unity I'm stuck on Windows.

[chyros]

mount d d:/
d:
cd dos
cd tyrian
tyrian.exe

[tp4tissue]

Ya'll played Raptor ?

[SBJ]

Ya'll played Raptor ?

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F*ck yeah I loved that game.
I never completed it though. :(

[chyros]

Ya'll played Raptor ?

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Played it tons. The target-seeking minigun and laser cannon are among the most awesome weapons ever put in a video game. That said, I still prefer Tyrian.



Zica Lasers, Sonic Wave, and Atom Bombs. **** yeah.

[Niomosy]

WordPerfect 5.2 for word processing, lotus 1-2-3 for spreadsheets. Enough games.

If only we could convert geekhack to BBS and implement TCP/IP in DOS, and have ethernet (RJ45) nics in DOS.

What else do we need? We don't need facebook. Twitter can be put into text mode. E-mail can be text already.

And then we need svga 9gag.exe in does... that's the only issue here.

Wikipedia and google can be text as well..

IT WILL WORK I PROMISE

(Attachment Link)

I ran TCP/IP on Ethernet (RJ45) 10mb plenty on DOS 6 / Windows For Workgroups 3.11 back in the day.  The earlier days of dialup internet were on DOS/Windows back in the days of the 486 and first Pentiums.

You should be able to grab FreeDOS and run it in a VM on VMWare Player or such as well.  Looks like mTCP is needed to get tcpip support.  Almost tempting to fire this up for no particularly good reason.  Then realize I'm in DOS, then shut it down and probably never use it again.  Pretty much like I did with the mainframe emulator running MVS and the DEC Alpha running OpenVMS.  I wouldn't mind getting my hands on Tru64 UNIX, though.  Mostly to play with another UNIX, then similarly forget about it being installed.

Setup in VMWare Player http://www.robohara.com/?p=7651

Setup in VirtualBox. http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/VirtualBox_-_Chapter_5

FreeDOS is up at http://www.freedos.org/
TCPIP for FreeDOS is at http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/

Then throw that into VMWare or VirtualBox with

[chyros]

Anyone here remember Z?

[xtrafrood]

I've been meaning to buy or build a DOS gaming PC. Gone as far as writing scripts so I can launch my DOS games with DOSBox via one click but it's not the same.

[fohat.digs]

I have an IBM PS/2 box from the early 1990s (it is a 486 but I really can't remember what is inside) that I would love to sell cheap, but the thing is so heavy that shipping is probably considerably more than the selling price.

Anybody in the Atlanta area want it for $20 if you come pick it up?

[tp4tissue]

I have an IBM PS/2 box from the early 1990s (it is a 486 but I really can't remember what is inside) that I would love to sell cheap, but the thing is so heavy that shipping is probably considerably more than the selling price.

Anybody in the Atlanta area want it for $20 if you come pick it up?

fohat , are you not worried that someone will murder you coming to ur house ?

how are you so carefree about strangers..

[Niomosy]

I've been meaning to buy or build a DOS gaming PC. Gone as far as writing scripts so I can launch my DOS games with DOSBox via one click but it's not the same.

I've honestly gone the opposite route.  I just want to run the OS and software.  DOSbox or a VM running DOS is fine with me and I'd prefer DOSbox at that.  Hell, even my arcade downstairs is collecting dust because Mame is easier and more reliable in most cases.  I might eventually replace the board in there with a PC running Mame but it's been a low priority.

[chyros]

Anyone play Powerslave/Exhumed?

[xtrafrood]

I've been meaning to buy or build a DOS gaming PC. Gone as far as writing scripts so I can launch my DOS games with DOSBox via one click but it's not the same.

I've honestly gone the opposite route.  I just want to run the OS and software.  DOSbox or a VM running DOS is fine with me and I'd prefer DOSbox at that.  Hell, even my arcade downstairs is collecting dust because Mame is easier and more reliable in most cases.  I might eventually replace the board in there with a PC running Mame but it's been a low priority.

I wish I could. I want to open a fresh copy of Zork I and battle the baddies. I think I would be content if I could just find unopened individual copies of Zork I-III

[iLLucionist]

Also the Bullfrog games. Dungeon Keeper, Syndicate Wars, Magic Carpet 2, Theme ...

Wasn't theme park hospital also by bullfrog? Bullfrog games were freakin' awesome!

[iLLucionist]

Meh, you can keep your memory leaks and manually configured ram to ensure max performance.

I remember tweaking memory, fighting sound card settings, and of course, LOW RESOLUTION. You can keep it.

But but... nostalgia! NOSTALGIA!

[iLLucionist]

Taking it further we can stop playing most games, and just read the wiki- synopsis.

Not only have I done that, but i also watched someone play through a game on Youtube (Deadpool).

Honestly, I think it was probably more enjoyable that way. You got all the jokes without repeating everything 20 times when you failed.

That's what I do with Dark Souls 3. If I were to play that game myself, I'd rather end my life now directly.

[iLLucionist]

Ya'll played Raptor ?

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aww gaawdd that game was amazing! I played it to death.

[iLLucionist]

WordPerfect 5.2 for word processing, lotus 1-2-3 for spreadsheets. Enough games.

If only we could convert geekhack to BBS and implement TCP/IP in DOS, and have ethernet (RJ45) nics in DOS.

What else do we need? We don't need facebook. Twitter can be put into text mode. E-mail can be text already.

And then we need svga 9gag.exe in does... that's the only issue here.

Wikipedia and google can be text as well..

IT WILL WORK I PROMISE

(Attachment Link)

I ran TCP/IP on Ethernet (RJ45) 10mb plenty on DOS 6 / Windows For Workgroups 3.11 back in the day.  The earlier days of dialup internet were on DOS/Windows back in the days of the 486 and first Pentiums.

You should be able to grab FreeDOS and run it in a VM on VMWare Player or such as well.  Looks like mTCP is needed to get tcpip support.  Almost tempting to fire this up for no particularly good reason.  Then realize I'm in DOS, then shut it down and probably never use it again.  Pretty much like I did with the mainframe emulator running MVS and the DEC Alpha running OpenVMS.  I wouldn't mind getting my hands on Tru64 UNIX, though.  Mostly to play with another UNIX, then similarly forget about it being installed.

Setup in VMWare Player http://www.robohara.com/?p=7651

Setup in VirtualBox. http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/VirtualBox_-_Chapter_5

FreeDOS is up at http://www.freedos.org/
TCPIP for FreeDOS is at http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/

Then throw that into VMWare or VirtualBox with

That's a great idea! I should try that once I have some free time on my hands.

[iLLucionist]

I have an IBM PS/2 box from the early 1990s (it is a 486 but I really can't remember what is inside) that I would love to sell cheap, but the thing is so heavy that shipping is probably considerably more than the selling price.

Anybody in the Atlanta area want it for $20 if you come pick it up?

Mmmmmm that looks REALLY juicy

[iLLucionist]

I've been meaning to buy or build a DOS gaming PC. Gone as far as writing scripts so I can launch my DOS games with DOSBox via one click but it's not the same.

I've honestly gone the opposite route.  I just want to run the OS and software.  DOSbox or a VM running DOS is fine with me and I'd prefer DOSbox at that.  Hell, even my arcade downstairs is collecting dust because Mame is easier and more reliable in most cases.  I might eventually replace the board in there with a PC running Mame but it's been a low priority.

I actually would love to build a 486 DX 66Mhz with legacy parts from the era. But I don't know how to get all the parts together.

Only thing I can remember about those machines that I found REALLY annoying was the fans. They were always so loud.

[dante]

[SBJ]

WordPerfect 5.2 for word processing, lotus 1-2-3 for spreadsheets. Enough games.

If only we could convert geekhack to BBS and implement TCP/IP in DOS, and have ethernet (RJ45) nics in DOS.

What else do we need? We don't need facebook. Twitter can be put into text mode. E-mail can be text already.

And then we need svga 9gag.exe in does... that's the only issue here.

Wikipedia and google can be text as well..

IT WILL WORK I PROMISE

(Attachment Link)

I ran TCP/IP on Ethernet (RJ45) 10mb plenty on DOS 6 / Windows For Workgroups 3.11 back in the day.  The earlier days of dialup internet were on DOS/Windows back in the days of the 486 and first Pentiums.

You should be able to grab FreeDOS and run it in a VM on VMWare Player or such as well.  Looks like mTCP is needed to get tcpip support.  Almost tempting to fire this up for no particularly good reason.  Then realize I'm in DOS, then shut it down and probably never use it again.  Pretty much like I did with the mainframe emulator running MVS and the DEC Alpha running OpenVMS.  I wouldn't mind getting my hands on Tru64 UNIX, though.  Mostly to play with another UNIX, then similarly forget about it being installed.

Setup in VMWare Player http://www.robohara.com/?p=7651

Setup in VirtualBox. http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/VirtualBox_-_Chapter_5

FreeDOS is up at http://www.freedos.org/
TCPIP for FreeDOS is at http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/

Then throw that into VMWare or VirtualBox with

That's a great idea! I should try that once I have some free time on my hands.

Might be fun to try when I get a couple minutes left over. Thanks for the links.

[chyros]

Also the Bullfrog games. Dungeon Keeper, Syndicate Wars, Magic Carpet 2, Theme ...

Wasn't theme park hospital also by bullfrog? Bullfrog games were freakin' awesome!

Yes, and Populous too, but I never played those games. Bullfrog were the best in the world at the time, though. Shame Molyneux can't make a decent game to save his life nowadays xD .

[rowdy]

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I wrote one of these years ago, lost the source though

Sometimes I think about writing another one, maybe with a vampire theme.

[xtrafrood]

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I wrote one of these years ago, lost the source though

Sometimes I think about writing another one, maybe with a vampire theme.

Sounds good to me

[Niomosy]

I've been meaning to buy or build a DOS gaming PC. Gone as far as writing scripts so I can launch my DOS games with DOSBox via one click but it's not the same.

I've honestly gone the opposite route.  I just want to run the OS and software.  DOSbox or a VM running DOS is fine with me and I'd prefer DOSbox at that.  Hell, even my arcade downstairs is collecting dust because Mame is easier and more reliable in most cases.  I might eventually replace the board in there with a PC running Mame but it's been a low priority.

I actually would love to build a 486 DX 66Mhz with legacy parts from the era. But I don't know how to get all the parts together.

Only thing I can remember about those machines that I found REALLY annoying was the fans. They were always so loud.

You could probably just buy one off eBay.  http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=intel+486&_osacat=11189&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR5.TRC2.A0.H0.Xintel+486+compute.TRS0&_nkw=intel+486+computer&_sacat=11189

That or probably find one dirt cheap local.  I went from a 486-33 to a Pentium 100Mhz.  Man that was the ****, too.  If you're piecing it together, 16mb of RAM was pretty huge in the 486 era of the DX2-66.  Might try to find yourself a Diamond Stealth or Diamond Viper video card as well.  The Viper was a beast for the time.  Otherwise, honestly, most any decent dedicated card should work.

I've mostly ended up staying away from hardware because I know I won't use it.  I've got a Sun Ultra 60 sitting next to my desktop PC that hasn't been powered on in years.  Eventually gave up 3 SGI systems - a pair of Indys and a Challenge L.

These days, my desktop itself can handle running any of those and if I can build a new one this year, could easily run everything I wanted simultaneously.  That way, it's only a bit more hard drive space I'm taking up with my mainframe, the Alpha running OpenVMS, and any other VMs or simulators I fire up to run old server or desktop operating systems.  The hardware has less appeal to me... probably partly because I'm a UNIX admin that has to still deal with old stuff that should have been decommissioned years ago.

[xtrafrood]

I've been meaning to buy or build a DOS gaming PC. Gone as far as writing scripts so I can launch my DOS games with DOSBox via one click but it's not the same.

I've honestly gone the opposite route.  I just want to run the OS and software.  DOSbox or a VM running DOS is fine with me and I'd prefer DOSbox at that.  Hell, even my arcade downstairs is collecting dust because Mame is easier and more reliable in most cases.  I might eventually replace the board in there with a PC running Mame but it's been a low priority.

I actually would love to build a 486 DX 66Mhz with legacy parts from the era. But I don't know how to get all the parts together.

Only thing I can remember about those machines that I found REALLY annoying was the fans. They were always so loud.

You could probably just buy one off eBay.  http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=intel+486&_osacat=11189&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR5.TRC2.A0.H0.Xintel+486+compute.TRS0&_nkw=intel+486+computer&_sacat=11189

That or probably find one dirt cheap local.  I went from a 486-33 to a Pentium 100Mhz.  Man that was the ****, too.  If you're piecing it together, 16mb of RAM was pretty huge in the 486 era of the DX2-66.  Might try to find yourself a Diamond Stealth or Diamond Viper video card as well.  The Viper was a beast for the time.  Otherwise, honestly, most any decent dedicated card should work.

I've mostly ended up staying away from hardware because I know I won't use it.  I've got a Sun Ultra 60 sitting next to my desktop PC that hasn't been powered on in years.  Eventually gave up 3 SGI systems - a pair of Indys and a Challenge L.

These days, my desktop itself can handle running any of those and if I can build a new one this year, could easily run everything I wanted simultaneously.  That way, it's only a bit more hard drive space I'm taking up with my mainframe, the Alpha running OpenVMS, and any other VMs or simulators I fire up to run old server or desktop operating systems.  The hardware has less appeal to me... probably partly because I'm a UNIX admin that has to still deal with old stuff that should have been decommissioned years ago.

Ebay or Craigslist definitely. I see tons of older PC listed on Craigslist for far less than what they're listed for on Ebay. At the very least I want a PC with 5.25in and 3.5in that'll allow me to transfer legit DOS game copies on to a raspberry pi 3 with Arch/DOSbox or something of that caliber.

Edit - Forgot about thrift stores. LGR periodically does a thrift store episode and towards the end of the episode Clint will show off thrift store hauls from other people. A few DOS machines have shown up. It's worth a look anyway.