dick hoogendijk wrote:
On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 18:09:23 +0100
dgmm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
How old?
32MB is one number which comes to mind from MS-DOS 3.2 days.
I've just repaired an old PC for a friend (Pentium 133MMX). While testing, I
used an old 10GB HDD I had lying around. The BIOS would only see it as 8GB
It didn't understand the existing 10GB bootable Win98 partition/OS on it.
In replying to this messages I want to thank all of you who responded
to my OT question. I'm using msdos-6.22 therefore fat32 is a no go (it
was supported as of dos7). At the moment I have a 1.4Gb drive in the
machine which works ;-) (2gb limit) I'll replace it with a 10Gb drive :
2Gb for dos and 8Gb for win98. It should run all the kid will need on
his old P.I-166.
I lost quite some hours today in replaying some old games I used to
play a lot years ago. Kyrandia i.e. has some music that used to
hypnotise me. Never did again until today. I found one of those old
original soundblaster-16 isa cards. Boy o boy, it was like everything
came back..
I *never* understood why those modern soundcards are NOT able to
imitate that old soundblaster-16 isa-sound. They don't even come close.
The sb16 sound is unique and only the real thing brought back quite
some memories. What a sound.
You could try FreeDOS (http://www.freedos.org/), It's 100% MS-Dos
compatible and is more modern so it supports things as large disks and
FAT32 (amongst other things)
I've had a good deal of fun using old dos apps and playing old dos games
on it.
- yuri -
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