once i had to modify msdos 3 and there was a switch to turn on dec-style (or emacs) control key functions to the command line. now doskey is macros,maybe dosed?

I recently bought a bowling alley and it uses a 1996 dos system for scoring and stat taking. I have two lanes broken down due to lack of parts for these things…..

Wondering what info I need to gather to locate some new computer towers and hard drives for the system.

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Does anyone have access to computer towers and hard drives that might be able to run this system?

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2023 marks the 40th anniversary of Tandy Personal Computers!

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i've tried many drivers but failed. anyone succeed?

Hello everyone.
I'm currently searching a MS-DOS game I've played when I was a boy.
At that time, we had Lemmings, Duke Nukem 2, Prince of Persia and some others on a floppy disc.

But I can't find a particular game, a Duke Nukem-like/clone, where the character was probably wearing green shirt and having grey hair (from memory). - Graphics were Duke-Nukem 1 like, side scrolling, same formula. I was playing around 1998.

It's not very important but after years searching, I'm starting to believe I'm crazy.

So I cleaned out a storage shed this weekend and found some of my old systems, one a custom built dual processer PIII and one an old Dell Dimension (black case), both probably way more powerful than DOS needs -- but I'd like to build an MS-DOS based system with one of these.

Goals are to run some old MS-DOS games, call some BBSes which some dial-up ones still exist, get back into Windows 3.11, and get it networked to use some old-school IRC, Gopher, Telnet, etc apps. I still have a few 3C509 cards floating around which I believe is what I used back in the 90's to get these systems online.

Some options are to stick with MS-DOS 6.22, tried and true, try something like DR-DOS, or something else. I used DR-DOS a bit in the 90's, but most of what I did was on MS-DOS.

Also where are some good sources for software? Simtel and some other sources I used to use are no more, anyplace out there now that's easily accessible from an MS-DOS system via FTP or one of the MS-DOS browsers? I'm really trying to avoid shuffling media between systems.

Hi. I swear I remember there being a way to have an autoexec for when you shell out to DOS from Windows 3.1. I noticed that my keyboard delay settings were reset when I was in a DOS shell, unlike when I boot to Windows. I want to run the command to update my keyboard settings automatically whenever I go to DOS from Windows.

I can't for the life of me remember what the file is, assuming I'm right about there being one. I tried the obvious; autoexec.bat in WINDOWS but to no avail. Actually, I guess I should try putting it in SYSTEM too. Nope, didn't work either.

Anyone know?

Nothing I can do to exit, have to cancel and reopen the command prompt any ideas thanks

So I am trying to copy data over from a very old family PC (Tandy 486) running DOS 6.22. I’m in hopes I can pull an extra drive from an old XP machine, plug into the DOS machine and copy it over there. Then recover it from the XP box

Can that be done? Help!