DOS is fun!
My grandad, god rest him, was awesome. He never stopped learning and had a multitude of different jobs you'd need degrees and 30 years of experience to do nowadays. He bought me my first PC, a P75 with 16 Meg of Ram.

I wnet out and bought the big game of the time when I got it - Theme Park.

Now, anybody familiar with DOS gaming meant that things usually were ball achingingly hard to work. You usually had to unload everything except DOS, a CD ROM Driver and a Mouse driver, just to get started.

Theme Park - the resource hungry bitch was no different.

After maticulously following the instructions for 4 days (I don't know how Gamesmaster could expect a challenge to get Mechwarrior 2020 up and running in half an hour), I finally got it up and working, and didn't leave my bedroom for weeks.

Day two, my gran came into my room, and saw I was struggling, and offered this pearl of wisdom.

"Well, it's more fun if things don't work straight away."

Thanks gran, as I stared at my C: prompt
(rhyswynne - on every social network mullarkey known to man, Wed 25 Jun 2008, 17:56, 1 reply)

Pfffft.
Ya know, I can still remember how to use DOS. This apparently makes me an old-timer. At one place I worked we had a piece of test equipment that ran on DOS, and when we had to replace the computer no one else knew how to copy the program from the hard drive and install it on the new machine- not even the engineers who were MY OWN AGE.

I walked out of there doing my best hiphop imitation as I sang "Damn it feels good to be a DOS geek..."
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Wed 25 Jun 2008, 18:01, closed)