what was it ?

Yuri van Overmeeren Yuri.vanOvermeeren at reston.demon.nl
Sun Sep 18 13:41:13 PDT 2005


dick hoogendijk wrote:

>On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 18:09:23 +0100
>dgmm <freebsd01 at dgmm.net> wrote:
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>>How old?
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>>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.
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>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.
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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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