• grue@lemmy.world
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    Where’re all the DOS kids at?! 5 hours and 66 comments, but not a single mention yet.

    Never mind solving problems with Windows; shit gets real when the thing boots to aC:\> prompt and you need to know things like the difference between CGA/EGA/VGA/Hercules graphics modes and WTF an IRQ is just to install your games in the first place.

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      Now I’m glad I was at the tail end of DOS. My dad showed me how to interrupt the windows boot to get into DOS for Lemmings and Doom, but for everything else like Anno 1602, Need for Speed 2 and Age of Empires 1, I used Windows 95.

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      If I was pressed, I could probably still write a config.sys to reallocate enough system memory to play Test Drive

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        Pop quiz: which graphics mode is that screenshot?

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        My guess is CGA, palette 1, high intensity.

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        Listen here you little shit.

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        (Seriously though, DOS kids are like ~40 years old. We’re xennials, not boomers.)

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      I absolutely still remember my grandfather having a dual 5.25” IBM and teaching my 6-7 yo self how to use the cli. I still remember that MSDOS 2.0 box he had up on his shelf, and how he taught me to keep a simple text file of the prices of my baseball cards, according to the legendary Beckett price guide.

      I then later vaguely messing around with 3.11 followed by 95+, but the basis of my mediocre understanding of the cli was due to my grandfather teaching me on DOS 2.0.

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      DOS5 here, installed from 5.25" floppies on a tiny HDD and looking at one of those awful shades-of-yellow monitors.

      That’s if you don’t count the computer that didn’t have a hard drive and ONLY booted from 3.5" floppy (which was just enough to get a bootable DOS disk and Prince of Persia).

      IRQ’s were great for choice. You got to your modem, video card, and soundcard and then picked which two would actually work when they all wanted IRQ5 or 7

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      I had 3.1, 95, 98se, XP(teenager).

      I got in at I’d say the best time. XP for the Internet as a teenager was absolutely the best time to be a teenager with computers.

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      20 days ago

      “What is that high memory area stuff they added in DOS4?”

      gets swallowed by rabbit hole for days

      “Oh, that!”