You are wrong in one thing: DOSBox is even easier and user-friendlier that ms-dos was. 😎

eL_PuSHeR wrote:

You are wrong in one thing: DOSBox is even easier and user-friendlier that ms-dos was. 😎

I would agree with you but I think the OP is correct too oh so many ways.

Gone it appears are the days of efficient coding techniques due to this very thing, GBs of RAM and GHz of Multi-Core CPU power to throw at the problem.

eL_PuSHeR wrote:

You are wrong in one thing: DOSBox is even easier and user-friendlier that ms-dos was. 😎

Hehe, yet some of us LOVE the old confusing DOS days/stuff... back when if one understood what the AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files were, they were a god <grin> 😀

@DOSBox authors,

*PLEASE* *PLEASE* make the DOSBox.conf *MUCH* longer and confusing... to satisfy us DOS masochists 🤣!!!

Confusing like Linux config files? 😁

Hehe, back when I still had my old 486DX4-100 ( http://www.cmoo.com/snor/weeds/Weeds_486DX4-100.htm ) set up and running <grin>:

CONFIG.SYS

1DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS /TESTMEM:OFF
2DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE RAM HIGHSCAN I=B000-B7FF
3SWITCHES=/F
4DOS=HIGH
5DOS=UMB
6BUFFERS=15,0
7FILES=40
8FCBS=1,0
9STACKS=0,0
10BREAK=ON
11LASTDRIVE=J
12NUMLOCK=OFF
13DEVICEHIGH /L:1 =C:\SB16\DRV\CSP.SYS /UNIT=0 /BLASTER=A:220
14DEVICEHIGH /L:1 =C:\WINDOWS\IFSHLP.SYS
15DEVICEHIGH /L:1 =C:\DOS\RAMDRIVE.SYS 55 512 16 /E
16DEVICEHIGH /L:2 =C:\ZIPTOOLS\ASPIPPM1.SYS FILE=BYTE.ILM SPEED=10 INFO=YES SCAN=NO
17rem DEVICEHIGH /L:2 =C:\TEAC\TEAC_CDA.SYS /D:TEAC-CDA /P:220 /T:0 /S:4
18DEVICEHIGH /L:2 =C:\TEAC\CDMKE.SYS /D:TEAC-CDA /SBP:220
19DEVICEHIGH /L:2 =C:\SPEEDRV\SDCDEXT.EXE /D:TEAC-CDA /CHANGEFIX /COREL
20rem DEVICEHIGH=C:\SB16\DRV\CTSB16.SYS /UNIT=0 /BLASTER=A:220 I:5 D:1 H:5 (CTSOUND Physical-Level driver)
21rem DEVICEHIGH=C:\SB16\DRV\CTMMSYS.SYS (Creative DOS Multimedia Architecture Integration driver)
22SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM /E:512 /P

AUTOEXEC.BAT

1@ECHO OFF
2TYPE DIRINFO
3COPY COMMAND.COM H:
4ATTRIB H:\COMMAND.COM +H +R
5SET COMSPEC=H:\COMMAND.COM
6SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 E620 T6
7SET SOUND=C:\SB16
8rem SET MIDI=SYNTH:1 MAP:G MODE:1 (MIDI Enviroment Variable for Creative DOS Multimedia Architecture)
9SET TEMP=C:\TEMP
10SET NU=C:\NU
11SET PATH=C:\DOS;C:\MICE;C:\NC;C:\NU;C:\PATH;C:\QM3;C:\SPEEDRV;C:\TEST;C:\WINDOWS;C:\ZIP;C:\ZIPTOOLS;C:\WINDOWS\TRUMPET;H:\
12PROMPT [MS DOS] $P$G
13KEYTAP EVERYDAY "NDD/Q C: D: E: F: G:" //Y
14rem IMAGE C: D: E: F: G: /NOBACKUP
15rem DISKMAP C: D: E: F: G:
16DIAGNOSE /S
17AWEUTIL /R:50 /C:25 /S
18SB16SET /P
19NCC /FAST
20LH /L:1 DOSKEY /INSERT
21LH /L:2 GUEST LETTER=J
22LH C:\TEAC\CORELCDX.COM /D:TEAC-CDA /CACHE=64,64,64 /XMSSIZE=0 /E:3 /L:I /VB
23LH CTMOUSE /2
24LH SPEEDRV INSTALL INI=C:\SPEEDRV\SPEEDRV.INI
25CALL STARTCD
26CALL QMENU

There wasn't but maybe one or two extremely obscure things that I couldn't run booting up with those two 😀

These don't scare me 😉

h-a-l-9000 wrote:

These don't scare me 😉

😎

h-a-l-9000 wrote:

Confusing like Linux config files? 😁

My name is Indigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to vi 😜

My two favorite files to edit are printers.conf and php.ini 😁

h-a-l-9000 wrote:

These don't scare me 😉

Me either 😀

Eventually I had settled on a combination of batch file and a reboot program. Game specific autoexec.bat and config.sys were saved as game.bat/game.sys and "boot game" would replace the root autoexec.bat/config.sys with those of the game and reboot the computer.

You know what else is more confusing than dosbox.conf? That thread title. 😜

sorry about the thread title Jorpho... was more a brain-dump than an informative article 😉

helios64 wrote:

sorry about the thread title Jorpho... was more a brain-dump than an informative article 😉

At least your brain dumps aren't in hex 🤣.