doom2day Posted August 30, 2004 Back in the days of dos [Remember this? C:\> ]everything was simple, it was just you, the shareware version of doom and the damn command prompt. only if you could downgrade windows xp down to dos 6.0. I had more fun with dos than with windows. And if everyone had an secondary computer with only dos, doom and doom 2 and their preferred dos based editor, we would be more happy in this thing that we call life. And by the way, i am only 14.5 years old. 0 Share this post Link to post
BattleCat Posted August 30, 2004 if you have 2 harddrives, disconnect the one with Windows XP on it and install Dos on the other one. Then connect the XP drive again. Most newer BIOS'es have the option of choosing a boot device during system start. Your computer should say so during startup so when it starts, press F11 and choose the drive you installed Dos on, that should make your computer start up in pure dos mode... newer soundcards don't work in Dos though... 0 Share this post Link to post
myk Posted August 31, 2004 doom2day said: only if you could downgrade windows xp down to dos 6.0. I had more fun with dos than with windows. I have Windows 98 on this machine... which is (most of) both worlds in one place. 0 Share this post Link to post
wildweasel Posted August 31, 2004 I have an old Pentium 120 with 32 megs of ram, a gig worth of hard drive space, Sound Blaster 16, and DOS 6.22. Currently it's the only computer in the house that can run the Crusader games - and I actually got MBF running on it at some point, then decided that it was pointless. I now use it to play Powerslave, Apocolypse Abyss, among others. 0 Share this post Link to post
Bucket Posted August 31, 2004 Yep... having a P120 with Win95 and DOS installed is the way to go. ALWAYS have one lying around. I still have bucketloads of outdated games which are still fun to play. Specifically, games like The 7th Guest(& The 11th Hour) and Carmageddon simply refuse to run in anything newer than Win98... 0 Share this post Link to post
doom2day Posted August 31, 2004 If you know how to use batch files, you can make it even easier to start your favorite dos based editor (DCK) Since the computer boots from a floppy disk to get sound and cd rom support, i can make a batch file on the start up disk so i can start dck in any directory by typing DCK. Batch files are fun. 0 Share this post Link to post
Darkhaven Posted August 31, 2004 Yeah, since I got my PC upgraded DETH just plain doesn't like my monitor, so now I have to use it in pure DOS on my laptop, which is quite worthless. 0 Share this post Link to post
Foofoo Posted August 31, 2004 doom2day said:if everyone had an secondary computer with only dos, doom and doom 2 and their preferred dos based editor, we would be more happy in this thing that we call life. Amen brother! 0 Share this post Link to post
Grazza Posted August 31, 2004 I'll never get to grips with this new-fangled DOS stuff. CP/M forever! I've got a few old machines with proper DOS support. I use them mainly for some of the old DOS ports that don't run at all in XP. 0 Share this post Link to post
Rom Posted August 31, 2004 Nothing beats a DOS partition, but DOSBox is a nice alternative. 0 Share this post Link to post
BattleCat Posted August 31, 2004 for my Dos needs, VDMsound is quite sufficient..but then again, i only have the need to run Impulse Tracker :P 0 Share this post Link to post
Spike Posted August 31, 2004 I'm not sure if i miss using different DOS startups for EMM386/Non-EMM386 games. Man, that was a pain in the arse even with the option to choose setup in the autoexec.bat. 0 Share this post Link to post
AFADoomer Posted August 31, 2004 I can run the orginal doom.exe fine on my XP Professional machine... with sound... 0 Share this post Link to post
DemilinX Posted August 31, 2004 I used to use DOSSHELL.EXE to create links toward specific PWADs for Doom so i didn't have to fuss with all the command line variables. It basically created a primative Windows Start Menu of sorts and sure beat the stuffing out of Windows 3.11. 0 Share this post Link to post
Ultraviolet Posted August 31, 2004 o yea well i made my own operating system with only a hex editor and edlin so there noobs i am approximately 167 years old bow down 0 Share this post Link to post
Caco-Puff Posted August 31, 2004 Ultraviolet said:o yea well i made my own operating system with only a hex editor and edlin so there noobs i am approximately 167 years old bow down I made mine with a Peanut and the stolen Half Life 2 source code. 0 Share this post Link to post
Naitguolf Posted August 31, 2004 I made mine with a Peanut and the stolen Half Life 2 source code. [/B] YOU TOO???!! 0 Share this post Link to post
Grazza Posted September 1, 2004 Real men use a Difference Engine that they built out of matchsticks and chewing gum. 0 Share this post Link to post
Caco-Puff Posted September 1, 2004 Grazza said:Real men use a Difference Engine that they built out of matchsticks and chewing gum. Can it run DooM 3? 0 Share this post Link to post
Sephiroth Posted September 1, 2004 heh, i keep a 486DX120Mhz system around for my DOS needs. also had a pentium 166 around here too but my cousin is useing it now. i might as well use one of those systems and make a doom server. i had one like that a while back. however i needed it for something at the time and it got scraped. today a guy at work asked me about game servers. i did try running a doom3 server, basicly the same as quake3 as far as i can tell 0 Share this post Link to post
Gokuma Posted September 2, 2004 Ha, your rigid systems are no match for the flexibility and versatility of my Fecalsys v#2. 0 Share this post Link to post
Use Posted September 2, 2004 doom2day said:And by the way, i am only 14.5 years old. WOW. Here let me get your medal. 0 Share this post Link to post
gatewatcher Posted September 3, 2004 doom2day said:And by the way, i am only 14.5 years old. So is my robot! 0 Share this post Link to post
leileilol Posted September 3, 2004 The only bad thing I know about DOS, is that PCI soundcards fail it. Pentium 100MHz s3 Trio64v+ 1mb SB Awe64 32MB RAM 1337mb hd Solid DOS gaming system right there. 0 Share this post Link to post
BattleCat Posted September 3, 2004 not true..newer PCI soundcards fail...older ones don't...i used to have an Avance Logic soundcard in my 100mhz computer and it worked perfectly in dos (since it was designed for it).. 0 Share this post Link to post
Sephiroth Posted September 4, 2004 gargoylol said:The only bad thing I know about DOS, is that PCI soundcards fail it. Pentium 100MHz s3 Trio64v+ 1mb SB Awe64 32MB RAM 1337mb hd Solid DOS gaming system right there. as i said before that sound card was fucking awsome. if you make a system for classic gaming it is a must have! search the planet for it, ebay may not be a good idea. also add in a voodoo 2GFX card, or 2. personaly i have never found a better card for old school DOS and midi stuff. the AWE 32/64 was by far my favorite for years 0 Share this post Link to post
SteelPH Posted September 4, 2004 AFADoomer said:I can run the orginal doom.exe fine on my XP Professional machine... with sound... Dosbox, right? 0 Share this post Link to post