the DOS thread

[The_Unbeliever]

Those of you who know of the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT stuff in DOS should have a nice time here.

When installing a DOS system from scratch, I usually added the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files by hand... but always got the urge to put in BUGGERS instead of BUFFERS

Resisted the urge so far, but was reminded of it today by some testing I had to do

 

[.Froot.]

I remember adding random DOS commands in autoexec.bat and other batch files to run on startup. Always loved the create directory one (looping obviously).

 

[LCBXX]

Going to places like game that sold Win98 based PC's & copying the system.dat into the autoexec.bat...

 

[Telkomisaloser]

shutdown -s -t 800 -c "Jour camputer es enfected weth a speeling misteek, please caal a speeling nazi to repeir dis erroa"

 

[.Froot.]

I've done that too. That, however, can be reversed with a "shutdown -a" command.

 

[Telkomisaloser]

I've done that too. That, however, can be reversed with a "shutdown -a" command.

I know

 

[LazyLion]

Those of you who know of the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT stuff in DOS should have a nice time here.

When installing a DOS system from scratch, I usually added the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files by hand... but always got the urge to put in BUGGERS instead of BUFFERS

Resisted the urge so far, but was reminded of it today by some testing I had to do

I think I still have my ideally hand crafted multi-boot option CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT file saved somewhere. Gave me the max memory for games under different configurations! Aaah... those were the days.

we knew what everything in there stood for... and how to tweak it!

 

[Viper25]

Those were the the good old days
Used to spend hours tweaking those 2 files

 

[iDenTiTy]

I remember having to edit config.sys for my creative to work in duke nukem

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Ya, the good old days

trying to get your sound blaster, cdrom drive and max memory for your game

edit, start game, reboot, start game, edit, reboot, start game, edit, reboot, start game, edit, reboot etc etc etc

 

[Keeper]

Ya, the good old days

trying to get your sound blaster, cdrom drive and max memory for your game

edit, start game, reboot, start game, edit, reboot, start game, edit, reboot, start game, edit, reboot etc etc etc

shame..... i'm guessing there was no "google" back then....

 

[Geoff Ogden]

Still using 'xcopy' for backup copies across our 'peer to peer' network.