win 3.14

[ahri]

I noticed another thread about win 3.14. I didn't read it cause i'm lazy. But, if anyone wants win 3.14 or MS-Dos 6, i might be able to find a copy around here. Just let me know. I got some games for it too. I got kasparov's gambit (chess game), i got buch of kid's games that are prety good if your 5.  I might have an old version of wordperfect and paint shop too.

I got an 8088 and i was wondering what kinds of OS can i put on it that is not DOS and where can i get it? bwt, the original frogger kicked ass.

[Calum]

well, i would quite like to get windows 3.11 and run it over the top of freedos.

As to what OS you can run on an old machine, i'm not sure what versions, but i heard linux was pretty resourceful on minimal hardware, of course you won't get it to be superflash by today's standards, anybody elaborate on this?

Also, X11 was going on about an implementation of the X11 graphical environment which runs on DOS, so you could get FreeDOS, or OpenDOS, both of which are opensource projects made with an aim to being binary compatible with M$DOS, and then you could get this X11 port and run it over the top, for a totally M$ free graphical computing experience post to say how you get on with it, because i for one would be interested to know...

[hoojchoons]

Why the fuck would you need any version of DOS nowadays?  

[Calum]

you might have a tiny little hard drive on an ancient machine, and want to run an OS that can make the machine run to its full capabilities. I personally haven't heard of any easy linux distros that would easily go on , say a 50Mb hard drive, and still support a GUI, are there any?

if not, then a free DOS, with a GUI, either this X11 clone, or an old windows 3 would be fine.

So if FreeDOS is crap, what about OpenDOS, and DR-DOS, are they okay?

[hoojchoons]

If that's the case Calum, then I agree with you. The only version of DOS I've ever had was unfortunately MS-DOS (yak) on an '89 Sinclair 200 PC. I also did some BASIC and GWBASIC programming on that machine at the time. Well, it looked cool back then but I was only 12 yrs old  

[ahri]

I thought i had a copy of win 3.11, but i don't. However, my dad does, but its on 5 1/4 disks. I can try to make disk images or copy file to net. Unless it conflicts with your anti piracy pollicy.

[voidmain]

It wouldn't conflict with "our" anti-piracy policies, but it would conflict with M$s.  Why don't you cut 1-3/4" off of two perpendicular sides of the disks so they work in a 3-1/2 in drive?

[Master of Reality]

actually... if you get a magnet, rub it against the disk, then rub it against your hard drive, it will transfer the files for you.

[ June 24, 2002: Message edited by: Master of Reality / Bob ]

[choasforages]

yes, wonder click transfer (tm)/*yes (tm) not like umm    
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owell, i heard that minix will run on 8088
i dont think linux runs on anything lower then a 386/*its a 32+ bit os    */

[Master of Reality]

Lunix (a type of Unix) will run on a Commodore 64/128

[sporkme]

i can work faster in dos than in windows for big file moving/deleting/etc.

i am getting pretty good on a linux prompt, tho i am still a newb

i keep hitting ls instead of dir in dos

[Calum]

isn't there some easy way to get linux to accept the 200 or so commands that you use in dos already? why beat yourself up in DOS, when you can use linux?

[creedon]

I have a copy of Slackware 2.03 (1994).  It will install (without X window) on 20Mb, is that small enough??

[Master of Reality]

small enough for what? A Commodore 64 has 64K of memory (no harddrive), and LUNIX can run off it... now thats small.

[Calum]

re: getting MSDOS, i heard that MSDOS 7 comes on the win95 CD, cunningly disguised as "olddos", well, i think i have found the contents of this folder available for free download from microoft's ftp site here:

ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/products/windows/windows95/cdromextras/otherutilities/

have a look, and go up a directory or two, are any of these files a free downloadable version of MSDOS? i would be interested to know if any of you recognise these files, since this would mean Microsoft is providing a free download of one of it's operating systems...

No, wait, my mistake, what was i thinking! you need the core files from a windows 9x installation, and also some of the olddos files off of a windows 95 CD to make it work... how silly of me et c...

[ July 04, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]