Running My games through Dos in The Olden Days

[maeztro]

Sorting out software issues! Yes! Trying to figure out which IRQ's belonged to which hardware and digging in the box to change jumpers around. This is something I should have added in my other thread as well. And in the attempt to change a jumper, you dislodged the cable to the hard drive. Then nothing worked and you got those beeping noise wit the POST. The fear of a dead hard drive and the relieve on discovery of the loose cable. And each game wanting a specific type of free memory and just on kb more than what you currently had available.

[madtazz]

Sorting out software issues! Yes! Trying to figure out which IRQ's belonged to which hardware and digging in the box to change jumpers around. This is something I should have added in my other thread as well. And in the attempt to change a jumper, you dislodged the cable to the hard drive. Then nothing worked and you got those beeping noise wit the POST. The fear of a dead hard drive and the relieve on discovery of the loose cable. And each game wanting a specific type of free memory and just on kb more than what you currently had available.

Dude you're bringing back some of my most distant memories. I remember the getting FIFA International Soccer on 3 diskettes from a Korean friend at school. Think I was probably 12/13, then still learning how to use DOS. Everything up to that point, I had learned by writing down all the commands and on that day, my friend had given me similar instructions on how I should install the game. I think he had it archived with arj. My old man didn't really know shit except working in Windows so I had to figure everything out by myself. After battling to install it, I finally got it right but starting the game returned an error that Sound Blaster sound card wasn't configured properly. Went into the setup and probably spent a good hour or so trying to figure out what the hell all these IRQ and DMA(I think) settings were all about. After some trial and error, I exited the setup and typed "fifa". The screen went black and then all of a sudden the EA Sports(it's in the game) splash came up. DUDE!!! Ran to the lounge screaming at my old man that I got it to work. I think I was more happy about the fact that I got it to work rather than playing the game itself. Anyway, I spent the whole night playing the game with my brother.

Damn man, these are really good memories...thanks!

[iNNOS4iNT]

I never had the 'privilege' of running my games through Dos... Was brought into the gaming community using exes.

[Reign]

I remember Dark forces, Shadow Warrior and Hexen!!


Dohc you also forgot to mention Heretic, it was a spin off from Hexen wasn't it??

I remeber lanning shadow warrior "sticky bomb aliker u"