Thread: DOS Games?

Originally Posted by jsp

I still have to support DOS machines at work, and to be honest they give the least grief But we are slowly deprecating them out.......

They are still a backup PC at some power stations I'm told...

Originally Posted by jsp

I still have to support DOS machines at work, and to be honest they give the least grief But we are slowly deprecating them out.......

Sure, they give the least grief because they have the least capabilities. Of course, they are less complex than any GUI OS. NT still works as well. But it's horrible..

Originally Posted by johntins

Sure, they give the least grief because they have the least capabilities. Of course, they are less complex than any GUI OS. NT still works as well. But it's horrible..

Would have made Pedros file renaming issues easier. Think PC Tools, X-Tree gold.
I used to use Norton Utilities often. People thought I was a wizz because I was able to fix their Windows 95 installation discs.
And my games absolutely flew on DOS.

Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

Would have made Pedros file renaming issues easier. Think PC Tools, X-Tree gold.
I used to use Norton Utilities often. People thought I was a wizz because I was able to fix their Windows 95 installation discs.
And my games absolutely flew on DOS.

X-Tree was a must have in those days. Genius program. Norton was fine when it was still Peter. I have downloaded the games. Bet they fly faster, even under emulation, on my Mac. Still, I know that isn't fair, the processing speed I have, both core and graphics, would have been science fiction to those guys.

Originally Posted by Tombie

How about the Dick Smith Wizard

Does not ring any bells(I think the bell knocker is stuffed)...

I had a friend talking about the good old days and I didnt remember any of the computers he was talking about, but then he looked up what I said and called me a computer nerd...

I was very young for someone into computers back then, now I am older and starting to realise I can no longer keep up(probably cant be bothered)...

What has disappointed me so much lately, is the lack of advancement in the architecture... CPU's haven't made any huge leaps for so long, speeds havent changed much and it seems the laptops have dropped back a bit...

Example, I thought all laptops by now would 4x core with multi threading as a minimum and 6x core with multi threading would be mid range but it seems having access to 8 threads is the mid to top end with a laptop...

The other thing I thought would have taken off is the idea of a main board having very little control on board but the cpu would contain all that, thus to upgrade it would be a ram change and cpu change... I think it was AMD using the Opteron cpu that was working on that idea...

Another thing thats dropped to the way side is multiple CPU boards, I've been thinking of building a desktop and cn find very few multiple cpu boards and next to none that can take a decent cpu of modern design...

I would like to build a rack unit with 4 x cpu's(all quad core with multi threading) and prefer 4 ram channels per cpu... 3 x units in a rack would do me, build a basic desktop to act as the server and connect the racks as nodes... But alas I think the model trains will more fun now... Computers have slowed down too much except if your into gaming, and that I am not....

PS, I havent lost my touch, yesterday a friend of mine phones and says his computer just died... I went over, unplugged all internal connections, dull contacts on the graphics connections, pushed it back in and guess what, computer fixed... Took him longer to make me a cuppa than it did to fix his computer... Now just need to install double doors, heads still swelling...

Here you go:

A Tale Of Dick Smith's Wizzard | AUSRETROGAMER

I taught myself to program Basic on that machine.

Originally Posted by Wraithe

What has disappointed me so much lately, is the lack of advancement in the architecture... CPU's haven't made any huge leaps for so long, speeds havent changed much and it seems the laptops have dropped back a bit...

I've been saying that for years. The traditional chip has been more or less at it's limits for quite some years now.
When are these quantum computers we were promised coming. I remember reading reviews of them ten or so years ago.
DOS is where the fun is at. I should resurrect the old Sparcstation. I've got a couple there, somewhere.

Mick_Marsh, do you remember how they said "Moores law" would never be broken... I think it got smashed 10 years ago, then stomped on and thrown in the bin...

Still the cheapest and easiest way to process large quantities of mathematical data, is using a cluster...

Half a dozen nodes and one server to act as master and you have quite a bit of processing power...

Imagine, Motherboard/ram/cpu/powersupply/ethernet cable x 20 all connected to a hub and one pc for the server...

I did it with 4 nodes and my desktop... was fun watching projects process a lot quicker and the warmth on cold nights made it nice... Today I have a laptop with 20 times the speed alone but if I built a 4 node cluster with todays cpus it would be a machine...

Concept of quantum computing is interesting but it would be nice if they built a unit for desktops or laptops... Sadly it will be like the parallel processing ideas, took years to happen...