Author Topic: Why is this funny? What does it mean? (Read 4021 times)

JoyMonkey · « **Reply #1 on:** July 14, 2003, 08:37:58 pm »

won't the first line delete everything on the hard drive?

SirPeale · « **Reply #2 on:** July 14, 2003, 08:40:01 pm »

Ah! A DOS n00b.

The first line will delete everything on the 'C' drive. Then it will start your CD-ROM support, unless (of course) after deleting everything the support files are gone.

Apollo · « **Reply #3 on:** July 14, 2003, 08:47:09 pm »

I am a DOS noob.
I don't know anything about DOS apart from that it stands for "Data Organising Sequence".
Thanks for filling me in on that.
By the way how do you learn about DOS? I would like to use it instead of XP for my cab.

Apollo · « **Reply #4 on:** July 14, 2003, 09:00:03 pm »

Yes I know it stands for "Disk Operating System" it was just a joke lol. And I found a tutorial on the net.

SirPoonga · « **Reply #5 on:** July 14, 2003, 09:19:29 pm »

Quote from: Apollo on July 14, 2003, 08:47:09 pm

By the way how do you learn about DOS? I would like to use it instead of XP for my cab.

DOS for Dummies. Serieously. I have the DOS for Dummies quick reference book. Had that book for who knows how long. I use it all the time when writing bat files.

www.freedos.org too:)

BTW, you would be happier with windows on your cabinet, especially if you want to take advantage of windows only features of mame.

Apollo · « **Reply #6 on:** July 14, 2003, 09:39:06 pm »

OK cool, thanks for that. I originally wanted to run just MAME32 with XP so I might do that ( or maybe front end it with MAMEWah, it looks kinda cool & everyone seems to love it ).

rampy · « **Reply #7 on:** July 14, 2003, 10:18:51 pm »

shouldn't there be a silent switch on there? or is the Y sufficient?

Rampy

night · « **Reply #8 on:** July 14, 2003, 10:23:07 pm »

the /Y is the yes confirmation. so it wont ask you anything --BINGO! Either that, or I was attempting to say "before" but it was too many letters to type-- nuking it all.

not that it cant be undeleted anyway.

AlanS17 · « **Reply #9 on:** July 14, 2003, 10:37:40 pm »

I remember when undelete didn't exist... (and that may be saying alot for someone that is still in college).

I still have the DOS book that came with my first computer. It's like an inch thick. I used that thing all the time! I used to call it my computer bible.

I even remember when DOS 6.0 came out... I can't believe I was actually excited. How lame is that?

Amra · « **Reply #10 on:** July 14, 2003, 11:24:57 pm »

ROFL!!

Can you say good bye everything on C: drive... hahahaha...

Dos is hilarious!

AlanS17 · « **Reply #11 on:** July 15, 2003, 12:57:14 am »

I don't see how it could execute the second line, though, if the first one deletes everything.

Reminds me of this time a made a batch file for this one guy in high school. (In hind site it probably wasn't very nice.) I told him it was a file organizer. It created several directories at the root, put ALL his exe's in one, ALL his COM's in another, and ALL his SYS's in another. He was running Windows 3.1 so it kind messed stuff up...

But it was a VERY organized mess...

F|end · « **Reply #12 on:** July 15, 2003, 04:33:38 am »

Isn't DOS+AdvanceMAME (dos ver.)+MAMEwah the perfect config for a fast and reliable mame cab? Or there's better configs? And what about Linux?

Minwah · « **Reply #13 on:** July 15, 2003, 05:26:51 am »

Quote from: Whiskeroids on July 15, 2003, 04:33:38 am

Isn't DOS+AdvanceMAME (dos ver.)+MAMEwah the perfect config for a fast and reliable mame cab? Or there's better configs? And what about Linux?

Well to use MAMEWAH you need Windows, so the best version of MAME to use with it is the Windows commandline one.

A DOS MAME build combined with a DOS FE (running in DOS) would probably be the best configuration for an 'old' PC...

Spaced Invader · « **Reply #14 on:** July 15, 2003, 05:28:13 am »

Quote from: Whiskeroids on July 15, 2003, 04:33:38 am

Isn't DOS+AdvanceMAME (dos ver.)+MAMEwah the perfect config for a fast and reliable mame cab? Or there's better configs? And what about Linux?

MAMEwah doesn't run in dos. And Mame runs better in windows on a fast computer.

Linux is scary!

F|end · « **Reply #15 on:** July 15, 2003, 05:35:30 am »

So how do you make MAME to run in cab automatically, with MAMEwah of course?

The FE issue is driving me nutzzzz!

$:-\$

Tiger-Heli · « **Reply #16 on:** July 15, 2003, 06:56:54 am »

Quote from: AlanS17 on July 14, 2003, 10:37:40 pm

I remember when undelete didn't exist... (and that may be saying alot for someone that is still in college).

Me too, oops, read wrong. I remember when undelete was only available on Norton Utilities. And when Format C:\*.* would just start writing sectors with no warning.

College was a long time ago, though

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I still have the DOS book that came with my first computer. It's like an inch thick. I used that thing all the time! I used to call it my computer bible.

That was probably after the DOS 2.3 manuals that were just an alphabetical list of commands with some syntax and a brief description after them, right! (I'm not kidding).

Spaced Invader · « **Reply #17 on:** July 15, 2003, 07:09:20 am »

Since the topic is straying anyway...

Anybody, besides me remember:

Saving/Loading your programs to cassette?
Copying code from a magazine to play the newest game?
Computers without color?
Computers without sound..not even a beep?
No GUI?
Brand new Pong machines?

OK...I think I'll go cry now...so old...so old...

ZippySLC · « **Reply #18 on:** July 15, 2003, 07:49:03 am »

Quote from: Whiskeroids on July 15, 2003, 05:35:30 am

So how do you make MAME to run in cab automatically, with MAMEwah of course?

The FE issue is driving me nutzzzz!

$:-\$

Uhh, put it in the startup group.

Start Button > Programs > Startup

SirPeale · « **Reply #19 on:** July 15, 2003, 08:45:17 am »

Quote from: Spaced Invader on July 15, 2003, 07:09:20 am

Since the topic is straying anyway...

Anybody, besides me remember:

Saving/Loading your programs to cassette?
Copying code from a magazine to play the newest game?
Computers without color?
Computers without sound..not even a beep?
No GUI?
Brand new Pong machines?

OK...I think I'll go cry now...so old...so old...

Yes to all. Now _I_ feel old.

First computers I used with DOS was version 3.3. Before that, my first computer was an Apple IIe, but I was programming on a C64 before we owned that.

F|end · « **Reply #20 on:** July 15, 2003, 10:11:56 am »

Well, i'm 19 and i remember playing spectrum and playing prince of persia in my monochrome pc!

Well, don't miss those times at all since emulation got my best friend!

TheTick · « **Reply #21 on:** July 15, 2003, 11:57:50 am »

Quote from: Spaced Invader on July 15, 2003, 07:09:20 am

Since the topic is straying anyway...

Anybody, besides me remember:

Saving/Loading your programs to cassette?
Copying code from a magazine to play the newest game?
Computers without color?
Computers without sound..not even a beep?
No GUI?
Brand new Pong machines?

OK...I think I'll go cry now...so old...so old...

How 'bout computers without monitor. Where the "Print" statement in basic actually meant printing to a dot matrix.
Really, no beep? Even the terminals that main output device was a printer had a bell character.

More recently I remember having to pay $10 to upgrade Dos 6.21 to 6.22. Upgrade!? It was a bug fix! Like Win95a -> win95b (or sr2.5).

SirPoonga · « **Reply #22 on:** July 15, 2003, 12:14:44 pm »

Quote from: Whiskeroids on July 15, 2003, 04:33:38 am

Isn't DOS+AdvanceMAME (dos ver.)+MAMEwah the perfect config for a fast and reliable mame cab? Or there's better configs? And what about Linux?

For performance, I think a pentium compiled official mame (win32 mame, not mame32) just because you get all the cool extra features you wouldn't get else where. Though Mame Plus does add alot of functionality.

As for FEs right now I use lazarus on this machine because I finally have it setup and can share the config:) I use to use arcadeos but it is outdated. My cabinet is currently running linux and gxmame. Once I get a windows machine in it I will have a custom FE.

For fast FEs I'd think gamelauncher is aobut as streamlined and simple as you can get for performance .

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Well, i'm 19 and i remember playing spectrum and playing prince of persia in my monochrome pc!

Hehe, try playing frogger on a trs-80 on a 12" black and white tv!

_Iz- · « **Reply #23 on:** July 15, 2003, 03:39:42 pm »

Quote from: Spaced Invader on July 15, 2003, 07:09:20 am

Since the topic is straying anyway...

Anybody, besides me remember:

Saving/Loading your programs to cassette?
Copying code from a magazine to play the newest game?
Computers without color?
Computers without sound..not even a beep?
No GUI?
Brand new Pong machines?

OK...I think I'll go cry now...so old...so old...

I remember typing out programs from magazines on my Vic-20 and saving them to cassette and then being *TOTALLY* pissed when it wouldn't load later because the tapes were crappy quality and worn out...

sigh. those were the days...

Hoagie_one · « **Reply #24 on:** July 15, 2003, 04:14:38 pm »

I started feeling old when kids didnt know what an atari was, I really started feeling old when they didnt know what a 8-bit NES was. and I'm only 28, lol

Apollo · « **Reply #25 on:** July 15, 2003, 04:57:47 pm »

I remember spending a day typing machine code into my ZX81 so I could play Galaxian on my black & white TV. Man was I pissed when I went away for 10 mins and when I came back my mum had unplugged everything, lost it all.

JLR2000 · « **Reply #26 on:** July 15, 2003, 05:00:02 pm »

If you are considering DOS for a Mame project, you gotta go here:

http://www.mameworld.net/dosmame/

simply a great resource IMO.....

Good Luck.

AlanS17 · « **Reply #27 on:** July 15, 2003, 05:01:47 pm »

Quote from: Hoagie_one on July 15, 2003, 04:14:38 pm

I started feeling old when kids didnt know what an atari was, I really started feeling old when they didnt know what a 8-bit NES was. and I'm only 28, lol

I don't know any kids that don't know what an NES is - no matter how young they are.

SirPoonga · « **Reply #28 on:** July 15, 2003, 05:53:49 pm »

Quote from: Spaced Invader on July 15, 2003, 07:09:20 am

Saving/Loading your programs to cassette?

My trash-80

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Copying code from a magazine to play the newest game?

Good ol' Byte magazine

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Computers without color?

For my my trash-80 was on a b&w tv. My 8086 was CGA, my parent's 8086 was b&w.

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No GUI?

My ncle had a brand new pong machine, I have a knock-off.

night · « **Reply #29 on:** July 15, 2003, 07:34:13 pm »

i have an atari pong in my closet.
takes 6 D batteries

Valence · « **Reply #30 on:** July 15, 2003, 11:51:25 pm »

Quote from: AlanS17 on July 15, 2003, 12:57:14 am

I don't see how it could execute the second line, though, if the first one deletes everything.

I'm pretty sure that is what an "Autoconfig.sys" file is, being edited in dos.
So the next time the computer is booted. That is when it would delete the hardrive. This is what some of the older nasty virii did. Edit this file, when rebooted, it would "hook it up" If this file was in the C: root. Even up to winME it would read it.

1UP · « **Reply #31 on:** July 16, 2003, 01:13:32 am »

I remember going with my dad to his computer class (I used any excuse to see a real live computer back then!) The code was stored on punch cards (anyone remember those?) and the display was a printer -- daisy-wheel, not dot-matrix...

I remember my cousin brought over his Apple II, running a knockoff of Pac-Man on the monochrome green monitor. Instead of turning blue, a little hatch would open on the top of the ghosts heads when they were vulnerable...

Later, I learned BASIC programming at 11, using the clunky old monochrome Commodore PET. Halfway thru the school year, my Dad bought a C64, and I used to take the tape drive with me to school so I could work on my programs at home! Wow, exciting stuff!! The best feature of the tape drive was that you had to go by the counter to figure out where all your programs were, meaning that if you'd removed the tape, you'd have to rewind the whole thing, reset the counter, and then fast-forward to the proper location. And you think downloads are slow? Try loading a 30k game off tape for 20 minutes!

Brax · « **Reply #32 on:** July 16, 2003, 07:45:20 am »

And then there was the C64 disk drive!!! Heaven! Only 300 dollars bought you a floppy drive that could load that same program in only 2 minutes! Light speed!

Spaced Invader · « **Reply #33 on:** July 16, 2003, 08:23:12 am »

Quote from: TheTick on July 15, 2003, 11:57:50 am

Really, no beep? Even the terminals that main output device was a printer had a bell character.

My KIM-1 was silent...though it seems like sound was an option?

ErikRuud · « **Reply #34 on:** July 16, 2003, 11:04:37 am »

1Up,

I not only remeber punch cards, but I actually had to work with them 18 years ago. I've also seen paper punch tapes in use.

Let's see, in chronological order I had:

Sears Telegames Pong machine.
Commodore PET computer (All in one unit, Keyboard, cassette player, b&w monitor, no sound)
Magnavox Oddyssey 2 game system with Voice! (I still have it and it still works)
Commodore Vic-20 (Many programs entered from magazines, I even wrote two games myself)
Commodore 128
Commodore Amiga 2000
Sega Genesis (I still have this one too)
Packard Bell 100 mhz pentium PC (Later upgraded to 200 mhz)
Hewlett Packard 233 mhz pentium (My current MAME PC)
E-Machines 1.8 ghz PC


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