Didn't even think I had them anymore, and was looking for my 6 original Windows 3.1 3 1/2" disks. So I'm looking through this one box, and wouldn't you believe it, I saw MS-DOS 6.22 Upgrade and went, I HAVE THESE?!?!?!???? SINCE WHEN!!??!???
So I hurried up and copied all 3 disks to a new folder on one of my hard drives, but this time, I copied each disk to its own folder, as there are 3 disks. The files aren't even that big, as these disks max capacity is 1.44. These are the High Density disks actually.
Anyway, it's just more stuff that I love. I have a DOS 6.2 PC, but I don't want to upgrade it. Only for the fact that if something goes wrong, I don't have a DOS 6.2 install disk, I just have the 6.22 upgrade disk. What that means is, I would need to have a DOS 5.0 disk, or a DOS 6.0 installation disk, install that first, and then I can install the 6.22 upgrade. Recently did that on a Virtual Machine I made, just to see if it would work, and sure enough it did. But that was with ISO files attached to the VM. I used to have a DOS 4.0 install disk set, but not sure what happened to it. And the problem there is I believe it may have been on 5 1/4" floppy disks.
My 3 1/2" disks STILL work flawlessly which is really freaking cool!! But the majority of my 5 1/4" disks are all but non-functional.
@Beatbox34 WOW!! That's really awesome!! It was the best, going in and editing files to get other stuff to work how you wanted it to. When 95 first came out, it was a mess. It kept crashing all the time. BSOD. Install a printer, BSOD. Move the mouse, BSOD. I literally uninstalled 95, and went back to DOS 6.22.
Once I seen more and more games moving to Windows 95, I unhappily moved over eventually. Then the advent of AOL came out, and things got somewhat better. Then 98 came out and it was a little better, then 98SE, and that's the one I really got hooked on.
@drymer At the time, it's what I found out on my own. No one sat there and showed it to me. At the time, this stuff wasn't widely known either. In today's world, of course everyone knows this because those people have learned about it 🙄
@SW-User Yea we had disk boxes, plastic containers with a lid, that can hold maybe 10 or 12 5 1/4" disks, and I've had those boxes since... geez, at least the mid 1980's.
@SW-User Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner, I was playing a DOS game I own on 3.5" disk actually lmao. For me, I can play DOS games over this new crap that comes out today. I dunno, for me DOS games just were made of quality. Nowadays it's publishers like EA who claim they have AAA games when all they really have is a ton of crap games.
See, back when EA was referred to as Electronic Arts, they really put out some damn great DOS games. Not anymore. You can't find a decent game released by EA anymore. But the old stuff is still amazing.
