AUTOEXEC.BAT + CONFIG.SYS

"Nibby" (nibby68) 11/09/2015 at 21:36 • Filed to: None

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AUTOEXEC.BAT

LH C:\WINDOWS\net start
SET PCTCP=C:\IEXPLORE\PCTCP.SHV
SET IEPPP=C:\IEXPLORE
PATH=C:\IEXPLORE;C:\WORD
SET SOUND=C:\SB16
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 E620 T6
SET MIDI=SYNTH:1 MAP:E MODE:0
SET CTCM=C:\CTCM
LH C:\SB16\DIAGNOSE /S /W=C:\WINDOWS
LH C:\SB16\AWEUTIL /S
LH C:\SB16\MIXERSET /P /Q
LH C:\CTCM\CTCU /S /W=C:\WINDOWS
LH C:\DOS\SMARTDRV.EXE /X
@ECHO OFF
PROMPT $p$g
PATH C:\WINDOWS;C:\DOS;%PATH%
SET TEMP=C:\DOS
SET PATH=%PATH%;C:\CDROM
PATH C:\NC;%PATH%
LH C:\DOS\MSCDEX.EXE /S /D:12345678 /L:D
LH MOUSE

CONFIG.SYS

DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS /Q /TESTMEM:OFF /NUMHANDLES=128
DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE RAM
DOS=HIGH,UMB
FILES=60
DEVICEHIGH=\CDROM\CDROM.SYS
DEVICEHIGH=C:\CTCM\CTCM.EXE
DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\SETVER.EXE
DEVICEHIGH=C:\WINDOWS\IFSHLP.SYS
STACKS=9,256
LASTDRIVE=F

pjhusa > Nibby 11/09/2015 at 21:39

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‘killa

TheHondaBro > Nibby 11/09/2015 at 21:40

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That was beautiful.

MM54 > Nibby 11/09/2015 at 21:42

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Pfft, who needs a mouse with DOS

Urambo Tauro > Nibby 11/09/2015 at 21:44

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Don’t forget to check your e-mail!

Boxer_4 > MM54 11/09/2015 at 21:48

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A mouse comes in handy with Windows 3.1, however.

MM54 > Boxer_4 11/09/2015 at 21:50

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That’s true. I really enjoyed 3.1 on the old IBM workstation my dad had for work - sadly my set of floppies with the installation package on them got lost at some point.

I was a big fan of accidentally closing out windows and ending up back at the dos prompt.

Boxer_4 > Nibby 11/09/2015 at 21:57

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All that’s missing is loading GUEST.EXE for the Zip 100.

(at least, that’s how I do it)

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > Nibby 11/09/2015 at 22:00

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Nope. No clue at all what any of that means.

Boxer_4 > MM54 11/09/2015 at 22:05

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3.1 was my first memory of using a computer, although I barely remember it. It was on my dad’s old 486 Gateway 2000. I still have the original 5.25” install floppies which I’ve been meaning to archive.

I always found it fun to start windows manually. “win” FTW.

PardonMyFlemish16 > Nibby 11/09/2015 at 22:32

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I have fond childhood memories of Floppy Disc Installation Adventures

Dad would spend hundreds of dollars on a program with about 30 installation disks, only for disk # 17 to be corrupted and leave a half installed program on the computer. It was the digital Oregon Trail.

Nibby > PardonMyFlemish16 11/09/2015 at 22:42

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XD I remember those days! Fuckin’ floppies.

Nibby > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap 11/09/2015 at 22:42

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What year were you born?

Nibby > Boxer_4 11/09/2015 at 22:42

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;D

Nibby > Urambo Tauro 11/09/2015 at 22:42

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DAT AOL

YOU’VE GOT MAIL!

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > Nibby 11/09/2015 at 22:44

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I’m still in high school. There’s no way I’d be old enough to know that.

Nibby > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap 11/09/2015 at 22:45

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Ah, yeah that is why. I started my senior year of high school more than 7 years ago.

That makes me feel old.

MS-DOS was released in 1981 and updated until ‘94. Windows 95 came out in ‘95 and that’s probably what you might remember as a child (or Mac System 7/8

deekster_caddy > Nibby 11/09/2015 at 22:49

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Yeah well...

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > Nibby 11/09/2015 at 23:14

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I’ve used 95. My personal favorite still has to be XP

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > Nibby 11/09/2015 at 23:16

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I remember what all that means.

But I have to say... why set your last drive to F? I’d usually set it to Z.

And you forgot to load doskey and set Buffers = 20!

And no “LH win” or ansi.sys?

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > Nibby 11/09/2015 at 23:17

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“ I started my senior year of high school more* than 7 years ago.”

* - MUCH more than 7 years ago...

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > MM54 11/09/2015 at 23:19

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You might want to use it in DOSSHELL.

TheHondaBro > Nibby 11/09/2015 at 23:23

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It’s all about Windows 98 bro.

Diesel > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap 11/09/2015 at 23:45

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Windows ME was the best.

Dunnik > Nibby 11/09/2015 at 23:51

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Dafuq? Win 8.1 on floppies?!?

Like, 200 of them?!?

Reminds me of the old Sierra games, like 20 friggen disks to install!

Nibby > Dunnik 11/09/2015 at 23:53

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Disk 1 of 3711

Baeromez > Urambo Tauro 11/10/2015 at 00:02

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“Mom! Get off the phone!”

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Nibby 11/10/2015 at 00:35

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Stop it - you’re going to give me nightmares. I spent more time in the DOS world than any sane person should have. This probably explains why I am not sane :P

Back in the days of DOS games there was always the problem of getting enough of the 640K available after loading all of the needed device drivers. Too many drivers and you didn’t have enough memory and the game wouldn’t run. I spent days trying out various combos of drivers and settings to make the ultimate free memory boot disk. Since the filenames were limited to 8.3 characters, this excellent disk was known to all as 603KBOOT for obvious reasons.

And when I got into IT I was the only one that had any working knowledge of Windows for Workgroups 3.11, so I got all of the support calls for that crap. After a month I wanted to quit and go back to tossing boxes in a warehouse, but thankfully we migrated out all of those dinosaurs.

A few years ago I wanted to run some Windows98 games without emulation, so I built up a killer system for it out of spare parts. I had forgotten how fragile that OS really was. One wrong BIOS setting and **BOOM** - constant crashes, if it booted at all. When it worked, it worked fine. But when it didn’t, well, good luck figuring it out. Thankfully back in the ‘90s we had the good sense to move from WfW directly to NT 4.0, bypassing the whole 95/98/Me experience in the corporate world.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Diesel 11/10/2015 at 00:36

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You’re just looking for a fight, aren’t you?

Nibby > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 11/10/2015 at 00:54

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9x is amazing for classic games though!

Osiris - I can haz Euro spec? > Nibby 11/10/2015 at 01:26

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Don’t worry Nibs, he probably still thinks they’re just save icons.

As with the senior year thing, I started mine in 2005. I can't believe it's been 10 years.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Nibby 11/10/2015 at 01:51

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My goal was to build up a killer system to play Grand Prix Legends , but dammit, that game is tough . I have a hard enough time keeping it on the track in practice, and it only increases in difficulty in qualifying and the actual race. Even when I do complete a lap I’m several seconds behind the pack and usually drenched in sweat.

It’s like Falcon 3.0/Falcon 4 or a Boeing 377 model that I bought for FSX - highly realistic, but my gawd, the learning curve is steep. I never mastered any of those...

TheRealBicycleBuck > Nibby 11/10/2015 at 09:19

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I was Big Man on Campus when I bought my 486 complete with a soundblaster card....

I was digging through a box the other day and found a gamepad with a gameport connector. I have nothing to plug it into anymore.

Nibby > TheRealBicycleBuck 11/10/2015 at 09:25

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I HAD THE SAME ONE!!!

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > Nibby 11/10/2015 at 13:38

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Don’t forget to save copies of autoexec.bak and config.bak in case your modifications make everything go wrong. You might need to get back to the only slightly broken versions if things go too far wrong.

punkgoose17 > Nibby 11/11/2015 at 10:52

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I’ll never forget Dad got an old computer from work and installed Duke Nukem 3D using 13 floppies.

Phyrxes once again has a wagon! > Nibby 11/11/2015 at 11:11

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That brings back memories of boot disks to play Doom and when PCs had “Turbo” buttons.

Nibby > Phyrxes once again has a wagon! 11/11/2015 at 11:31

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WHOOSH 66MHz!

Nibby > punkgoose17 11/11/2015 at 11:31

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dogisbadob > Nibby 11/11/2015 at 12:30

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Thankfully it’s fake