Sharessa Posted January 22, 2002 Hey, remember the Boss Key? Whatever happened to it? Why don't they put those in games anymore? I mean, it would be great to be playing Quake 2 with all the shooting and crap, and your boss walks in the room and you just hit the boss key, and BAM, you're in Fwindows XP. 0 Share this post Link to post
Sharessa Posted January 22, 2002 Oh yeah...thats probably why they got rid of them. DAMN YOU WINDOWS!! YOU SCREW EVERYTHING UP!! 0 Share this post Link to post
læmænt Posted January 22, 2002 Except that when I'm in Windows, and I alt-tab out of Zdoom, I can't alt-tab back in... 0 Share this post Link to post
IMJack Posted January 22, 2002 I remember NetHack had a panic button that created a fake DOS prompt in-game. It was handy back in high school, when the computer teacher came back to the Windows machines to make sure we weren't doing anything fun. 0 Share this post Link to post
elbryan42 Posted January 22, 2002 I remember the boss keys... Face Off hockey showed a spread sheet program. King's Quest 1 showed the dos prompt Space Quest 3 said "Ah. So you don't want your boss to know you're playing Space Quest 3. Well forget it." Ah... DOS... those were the days. 0 Share this post Link to post
Zaldron Posted January 22, 2002 Ah... DOS... those were the days. ...of repeatedly hitting the F8 key and then customizing your boot just for one friggin game. Thanks but no thanks. 0 Share this post Link to post
nxn Posted January 22, 2002 lol, I remember that shit, I had a little notebook filled with a list of Y's and N's for each game. 0 Share this post Link to post
Sephiroth Posted January 22, 2002 yes when DOS was popular it was good. i just set up a classic DOS and win3.11 PC for old games. the only beef i got with DOS is setting up and getting drivers. by the way do any of u have a driver for a older rockwell soundcard(RWA010. also some times games needed that 640k ram and i hate getting the settings for that and keeping my drivers 0 Share this post Link to post
elbryan42 Posted January 22, 2002 The only games I had to edit the Config.sys and Autoexec.bat were Gametek games. Quarantine took me a long while to figure out how to even get to start. Good game though. 0 Share this post Link to post
Zeratul 982 Posted January 22, 2002 I remember NetHack had a panic button that created a fake DOS prompt in-game. It was handy back in high school, when the computer teacher came back to the Windows machines to make sure we weren't doing anything fun.Uproar uses the same feature. Some of their games have panic buttons that open up a fake image of a Word document discussing major cities sales. The panic button also shows up on the right-hand side of their games section. 0 Share this post Link to post
sleepy_boy Posted January 23, 2002 ahhh...i rember doing that in commmander keen. sure was nifty 0 Share this post Link to post
Lüt Posted January 23, 2002 Ah... DOS... those were the days. ...of repeatedly hitting the F8 key and then customizing your boot just for one friggin game. Thanks but no thanks....pffff, I still have games that won't fucking run in Win95+ because they require more than 620K of conventional memory, which YOU COULD AT LEAST GET with DOS. Yeah, DOS ruled. 0 Share this post Link to post