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minus-squareMuskyMelon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up26·1 year agoIf you’ve had to mess around with EMM386 and HIMEM settings to play Wing Commander 2, you win.
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minus-squareMuskyMelon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoSpeaking of nuclear war, did you play this game: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_War_(video_game) It was hilarious! Gandhi was launching nukes before Civ 1!
minus-squareTar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoa nullmodem is what we had too! I remember copying over Warcraft 1 from one computer to the other over most of a day, and it then not working.
minus-squareTexas_Hangover@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoAutoexec.bat’s and boot disks for everything ftw.
minus-squareMuskyMelon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year 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-up1·1 year agoLet me blow your mind. People are probably running FreeDOS nowadays though which uses a different syntax.
minus-squareMuskyMelon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoYup eventually did this with DOS 6. Suffered from DOS 1 until then.
minus-squareSamskara@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year 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.
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Speaking of nuclear war, did you play this game:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_War_(video_game)
It was hilarious! Gandhi was launching nukes before Civ 1!
a nullmodem is what we had too! I remember copying over Warcraft 1 from one computer to the other over most of a day, and it then not working.
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.