Now this is begining to upset me deeply, I'm truly sorry if I gave you the impression I was confronting you, it was all a big misunderstanding.
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"Ok, Col. Just so you know "I couldn't care less" is almost always used as a form of dislike or disrespect for what someone else is saying. I'm guessing this was just a language translation problem."
This is obvious a cultural diference, since I had no idea of the meaning of the sentence to you.
I apologise, it was my fault, I should have known better than this...
"I have to admit, I find it bewildering that you were not understanding me. We had spoken with each other numerous times and I sensed no confusion from you before."
Yes, of course, let me try to clarify this particular subject. When you say to help run game X I need to run aplication Y in DOS, it simply doesn't say a thing to me...cause I can't do it 🙁
Try to put yourself in my place, I don't even know how to open a DOS window in XP and of course runing applications, even batch files in DOS is out of the question...
So, your guide that says to use a lot of DOS stuff was useless to me, since I didn't knew how to do it.
I got into a lot of trouble runing Glidos for the first time because of this particular issue (the sound emulator, I think)
Then Matt made his tutorial, eliminating all the need to write a single DOS comand, the only one he asks for is to patch the exe files, but he gives step by step instructions...
See what I mean? When I say I don't understand your guide?
"Col, I sympathize; but honestly if you don't learn at least some DOS basics, you will run into problems almost every time you try to run a DOS program in XP. By knowing what each step is doing, it helps when something goes wrong."
Yes, of course, I thought about it several times, if I could find someone who could teach me, you see, when I bought my first computer, Windows 98SE was already out...
So I started around 1999/2000 in this line of work.
I'm a 43 years old clinical psychologist without much time for all this, but I manage to do it.
I learn to deal with win98 by myself and got into the gaming world, but I played all the old DOS classics always through source ports, Doomsday was already out, so I played all Doom series in jDoom, and the Serpent Riders series in jHexen and jHeretic.
Quake in GLQuake and TomazQuake and so on...
No contact with DOS needed until I tried to run the Build Engine...
And you already know the rest...
I dunno what else to say...🙁