All this Mac vs PC stuff just made me remember when I was a kid working with DOS.

Ahh.. DOS. Once long after we'd had windows our neighbors finally got a computer... the only problem was that it only ran in DOS. So their kids had to have me come over so I could show them how to play all their games. Not to mention FIND the games already on the system... but hey i did it with the school systems so i was able to do it there.

Man accessing a DOS computer that you knew nothing about was a pain. Or at least it was at my age back then... and if you forgot exactly where you saved something, man the search was annoying.

Anyone have any fun DOS stories?

i used it last weekend.... jsut goto run and type cmd.

 Hah.  Yeah, but it's a lot different when it's your ONLY opperating system and you have to do everything through it... believe me.

I used to run a lot of older games through DOS.  But when DOS is your only option for everything... 

c:\notpron>format c:

I remember things like that. My favorite was how cool I thought it was that you could switch the monitor colors between R G and B. I can't even remember the names of the games I played. Oh and those 5 inch floppys. Man that brings back memories.

 i know, my second PC ran Windows 3.1 ie DOS based Windows.

My first was an apple =P oh ya I own.

The graphics on that game were so incredible when it was released. 

Before I switched to PC's in the late 386/early 486 era, I was a Commodore 64 user as well as an NES gamer. :D

Ah, the days of playing Civilization, Syndicate, X-Wing, and so many other classics. *^u^* I remember when we got a Sound Blaster card, and suddenly X-Wing had voices in the opening and cut scenes. My friends dropped their jaws. ^u^

Remember it? I've got games that won't work without it (damn you, XP!!!) But yeah, my first PC had DOS as the main operating system and Win 3.1 was there for the things that didn't run without it.

I remember it... but I was young...