Hi,
On Wed, Jan 3, 2024 at 4:30 AM Frantisek Rysanek via Freedos-user
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> my first PC at home was a 386DX/40 in about 1991/1992
I'm American, but we're roughly the same age, and I started with a 486
SX/25 in 1994.
> All the school had at the time was Pascal with objects
I've become a
Oh guys, to me the era nowadays is not so much about particular
software programs - it's about fond memories of many things blasting
off all at once.
You probably know what happened by the end of 1989 in DDR, CZ+SK and
elsewhere in the eastern bloc. E.g. our neighbors in PL had a bit of
an
Jim Hall wrote:
> > Same for word processors. We used a few word processors at home,
> > probably copies of whatever my parents were using at work.
[..]
> > I looked through the shareware
> > catalog(*) I subscribed to, and ordered a copy of the most highly
> > rated word processor: Galaxy. It was
On Mon, 2024-01-01 at 18:04 -0600, Jim Hall via Freedos-user wrote:
>
> Same for word processors. We used a few word processors at home,
> probably copies of whatever my parents were using at work. So I
> learned how to use WordPerfect. And I bought my own "student edition"
> of WordPerfect when
On Mon, Jan 1, 2024 at 4:04 PM Jim Hall via Freedos-user <
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
[SNIP]
> (*) Did anyone else subscribe to a shareware catalog? I know you could
> dial into a BBS to find shareware apps, but I found a catalog that
> tested tons of shareware apps and games and
Hi,
On Mon, Jan 1, 2024 at 6:04 PM Jim Hall via Freedos-user
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> On Mon, Jan 1, 2024 at 5:39 PM andrew fabbro via Freedos-user
> wrote:
> >
> > Whatever programs are most representative, they might have been
> > distributed as shareware. There's still "trial software" today but
> > not
Jim Hall via Freedos-user wrote:
I'm thinking about doing a video that shows how to do real work on DOS.
For me "Real work" included PC setup.
I used System Commander until I replaced it with Acronis OS Selector,
which I still use.
I also still use:
Acronis Disk Doctor
Norton Commander
On Mon, Jan 1, 2024 at 5:39 PM andrew fabbro via Freedos-user
wrote:
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> Whatever programs are most representative, they might have been
> distributed as shareware. There's still "trial software" today but
> not like going to a BBS and seeing hundreds of shareware packages,
> or getting a CD
Whatever programs are most representative, they might have been distributed
as shareware. There's still "trial software" today but not like going to a
BBS and seeing hundreds of shareware packages, or getting a CD stuffed with
them.
I was just chatting with a gentlemen (now in his 70s) who
I remember GW-Basic being in one of the first IBM XT machines on rom.
Doom originally was released on MSDOS :)
-Ed
On Mon, 1 Jan 2024, 07:30 Rugxulo via Freedos-user, <
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Dec 24, 2023 at 10:34 PM Jim Hall via Freedos-user
> wrote:
> >
Hi,
On Sun, Dec 24, 2023 at 10:34 PM Jim Hall via Freedos-user
wrote:
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> I'm thinking about doing a video that shows how to do real work on DOS.
> I sometimes see comments on YouTube with people asking "could you really do
> *work* with DOS?"
> And the answer is of course you can, that
ia Freedos-user
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An: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: GeeksCave
Betreff: Re: [Freedos-user] What DOS programs represent the 1980s and early 90s
?
Hi,
> I don't think any 1980s DOS computing experience is complete without
> thinking abou
Hi,
I don't think any 1980s DOS computing experience is complete without
thinking about Bulletin Board Services and the "big" online services.
Yes, I agree with you. I think BBSes were an important aspect of the DOS
computing experience in the 1980s and early 1990s. Incidentally, I just
I don't think any 1980s DOS computing experience is complete without
thinking about Bulletin Board Services and the "big" online services.
If this was 1988, we'd be talking on a FIDOnet echo, or there would be a
"FreeDOS BBS" whose number we'd get from a text file list of BBSes we'd
download over
> I did not catch how to do LPT interrupt, real and protected mode. It
> would be a great help if there is an example.
> I work with watcom and realized it, but only once, then the ISR is
> never called again.
> May be LPT is not very often used.
It would help to know exactly what you're trying
> I'm thinking about doing a video that shows how to do real work on
> DOS. I sometimes see comments on YouTube with people asking "could
> you really do *work* with DOS?" And the answer is of course you can,
> that happened every day.
>
> So I'm collecting a list of things you'd do in the 80s
1991: Learning to program in QuickBasic 4.5 at 11 (summer school), we
didn't have a PC at home at that time.,When we got the first computer in
1993 I got Qbasic 4.5 (almost the same without linker and compiler). I had
to wait for the Internet era to understand the differences between
QuickBasic
During the DOS years, I used XTree a lot for moving things and general file
management.
During the early DOS years, I used Professional Write. Eventually, I moved on
to the Lotus Suite.
But as with the platforms that came before, I spent most of my time in DOS
writing code. Mainly that
Hi Jim,
I was a kid in late 80s and early 90s but I remember few DOS programs
that my father used and then many games I played :-)
MS-DOS 6.22 with embedded applications like Edit was first OS I remember
(later with Windows 3.11). And for programs I remember M602 (Czech
Norton Commander
Hello Jim,
I'm giving my own view that I've lived from this corner of the world.
As for operating systems/environments, it was mostly MS-DOS 3.X, 5.X and
6.22, and of course, Windows 3.1 (before the arrival of Windows95).
I heard of machines having DR-DOS or OS/2, but did never quite catch up.
Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS.
Cc: Jim Hall
Betreff: [Freedos-user] What DOS programs represent the 1980s and early 90s?
I'm thinking about doing a video that shows how to do real work on DOS. I
sometimes see comments on YouTube with people asking "could you re
I have lDOSBox on my tablet with WordPerfect loaded so I can always keep
one copy of on going documents. I always liked WP and a modern version on
my main system.
On Sun, Dec 24, 2023 at 11:34 PM Jim Hall via Freedos-user <
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> I'm thinking about doing a
I did a lot of programming on DOS, both professionally and for pleasure.
Clipper databases, the descendent of dBase, was the day job. I
learned C programming, starting with the Microsoft compilers Quick C and
MSVC, moving on to various other compilers.
Wordperfect 5.1 was in use every day,
Hi,
I remember using Turbo Pascal and Turbo C back in the day (still use it
now), also Lotus 123 and Dbase 3 :)
Ah the memories :)
Still use Turbo C++ 3 as it's output is faster than open watcom C's
compiled code.
-Ed
EdzUp
On Mon, 25 Dec 2023, 04:34 Jim Hall via Freedos-user, <
I did not catch how to do LPT interrupt, real and protected mode. It would
be a great help if there is an example.
I work with watcom and realized it, but only once, then the ISR is never
called again.
May be LPT is not very often used.
Freundliche Grüsse
Walter Oesch
Walter Oesch
Erlenweg 12
Jim Hall via Freedos-user composed on 2023-12-24 22:33 (UTC-0600):
> I'm thinking about doing a video that shows how to do real work on DOS. I
> sometimes see comments on YouTube with people asking "could you really do
> *work* with DOS?" And the answer is *of course you can, that happened every
I'm thinking about doing a video that shows how to do real work on DOS. I
sometimes see comments on YouTube with people asking "could you really do
*work* with DOS?" And the answer is *of course you can, that happened every
day.*
So I'm collecting a list of things you'd do in the 80s and 90s with
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