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.
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@SW-User I'm not sure that anyone would really want them, unless they are a collector. For me, anything DOS is a priceless artifact and should be worth tons of money. But that's just how I feel about it. Without DOS, I don't think we would be where we are today with computers. Or at least, maybe things would have been different.
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I never used DOS but I played remastered games (on other platforms) that were originally released on DOS. Pretty decent I'd say. But seems like it was a complex system @twiigss
@SW-User Once you learned the basics, the rest was really, really simple. The problem back then was that a lot of people just didn't want to take the time to learn. I wasn't an expert in it, but when it came to editing the config.sys and autoexec.bat files, I was a pro at that. Mostly it was just trying to get the most conventional memory I could just to run games, or my SoundBlaster Pro setting of IRQ 7, DMA 1 one day just magically got screwed up (not sure how) and found out I needed to run on IRQ 5, DMA 1, and everything was fine.
The soundblaster card was for sound. Then you needed a driver installed for the mouse to work, and all of that you could load into high memory, which would free up some memory giving you more conventional memory. And it was a real pain when you had something like 540MB of conventional memory, and you get this brand new game, and when you would try to run the game it'd say, Out of conventional memory, 550MB required. Literally that's what it was every single time lmao. GOD I MISS THOSE DAYS SO DAMN MUCH!!
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@twiigss I see. Was there ever a paint 🖌program on DOS btw? I remember when I was a kid in around 1995 my cousin showed me her drawings but not sure if that was on windows or DOS. The concept of computers seemed intimidating and alien to me back then
@SW-User Yes actually. There was one we had, I still have the 5 1/4" disk for.
Logitech Paintshow is from 1988.
Then there was this program, you could make calendars, posters, banners. But at the time, we had dot matrix printers. With dot matrix printers, the paper was connected with perforations, so if you made a banner, as long as you didn't tear the perforations, you'd have one long banner. But it was really limited as to what you could do. No color, black and white only.
Printmaster Plus is from 1986.
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That's pretty cool. What year is it from? @twiigss
@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.
