Jul 11, 2019 · (Note that until 1993, with MS-DOS 6.0 and PC DOS 6.1, they were essentially differently-branded versions of the same software. After that, there was still a lot of commonality. Immediate differences included Microsoft's dropping of DOS Shell, IBM's dropping of QBASIC and adding the superior E editor instead.

Jun 21, 2018 · I was not a PC user before Windows 98. But I remember one of my friends was using a boot menu in his 486 machine to select between Windows/DOS. The menu was like: 1. EMS 2. XMS 3. Windows If we would be playing games, we would pick the EMS or XMS option. If we would play SimCity or Command & Conquer, we would pick Windows.

Nov 11, 2021 · Use Glance if you want an attractive, easy-to-use tiled menu, or LaunchBox for MS-DOS Special Edition 2.0 if you want a sortable list with developer/publisher/year/etc metadata fields.) Share Improve this answer

Dec 23, 2024 · As such, the combination of /WIN95 for one NTLDR menu entry and /WIN95DOS for another allows booting two different versions of MS-DOS from the same FAT file system; clearly /WIN95 was intended to boot MS-DOS 7.0 while /WIN95DOS was meant for booting MS-DOS 6 that the former version was installed on top of, but this is not relied on too much, so ...

Sep 6, 2020 · In version 4.0 of PC DOS and MS-DOS, SELECT became an interactive installation tool, which was started automatically from the installation disk (or the “Select” disk on 5.25” disk sets). In version 5.0 of PC DOS and MS-DOS, the setup program was renamed to SETUP.EXE and introduced support for upgrading

Jul 11, 2017 · It fully supports booting into real mode MS-DOS (including processing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files), as that is its sole purpose: the boot menu (accessible via the F8 or Ctrl key) includes only a single item, ‘Normal’, which behaves just like ‘Command prompt only’ did in earlier versions. To actually start Windows from this version ...

Dec 4, 2019 · I've been planning to experiment with PC-DOS 7.1, but the interesting thing is will windows 98 support dualboot on a fat32 partition, and can pc-dos 7.1 run windows. From people who run pcdos71, i'm told that build 1.19 is the go, with …

Nov 8, 2022 · I also find it odd why the DOS needs to be emulated. Why not run a real DOS in a VM, but if you need a real DOS, the problem is getting licenses for MS-DOS if FreeDOS won't work. It is also unclear if the program can run under real DOS or does it run in Windows which provides compatible networking. –

Jul 28, 2021 · The menu system did not have an option to enable "full"/"free" mouselook. That is, look up/down with the mouse. I searched the 'net while he was playing and found a forum past saying that all Quake 1 engines/ports ever since the very first version for MS-DOS had so-called freelook support, but that some of them lacked a menu option for this for ...

Jun 18, 2020 · The best comparison I can make is "Qt for the MS-DOS era". Sergio Sigala's version includes some API documentation, though the best documentation, language syntax aside, is probably still the Turbo Vision 2.0 print manual that came with Turbo Pascal 7.