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minus-squareMuskyMelon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up21·2 months agoIf you’ve had to mess around with EMM386 and HIMEM settings to play Wing Commander 2, you win.
minus-squareTexas_Hangover@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoAutoexec.bat’s and boot disks for everything ftw.
minus-squareMuskyMelon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoI learnt how to use a custom autoexec.bat that had a menu to select the different memory configs. That was a godsend!
minus-squarebarsoap@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoLet me blow your mind. People are probably running FreeDOS nowadays though which uses a different syntax.
minus-squareMuskyMelon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoYup eventually did this with DOS 6. Suffered from DOS 1 until then.
minus-squareSamskara@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·2 months agoThat knowledge is completely useless now.
If you’ve had to mess around with EMM386 and HIMEM settings to play Wing Commander 2, you win.
Autoexec.bat’s and boot disks for everything ftw.
I learnt how to use a custom autoexec.bat that had a menu to select the different memory configs. That was a godsend!
Let me blow your mind.
People are probably running FreeDOS nowadays though which uses a different syntax.
Yup eventually did this with DOS 6. Suffered from DOS 1 until then.
That knowledge is completely useless now.
Ahhh happy days and nights.