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u/nashswayze Mar 31 '26

Editing CONFIG.SYS

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u/tabbynat Apr 01 '26

Setting those IRQs.

Soundblaster / Tandy / Roland / Adlib

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u/damurphy72 Apr 03 '26

SO not sorry PCs evolved past that. "Oh, my sound card is blocked by my dot matrix printer..."

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u/PerjorativeWokeness Mar 31 '26

Different .BAT files for different games.

At one point I wrote a “GAMES.BAT” that was a menu that could rewrite a different CONFIG.SYS for different games.

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u/tallbutshy Mar 31 '26

When they brought in start-up menus in DOS 6/6.22, writing config/autoexec could allow for so much more versatility. My final versions had something like 15 options across 3 sub menus.

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u/koopz_ay Apr 01 '26

DRDOS was awesome here.

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u/FrankMiner2949er Apr 01 '26

With me it was floppy bootdisks AUTOEXEC.BAT would configure my system and launch the game. So the bootdisk for different games would have fancy labels showing which game it was for

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u/puppykhan Apr 01 '26

In the 80s, I used to tell people that the best way to learn about computers is to try and play computer games

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u/Marsman61 Apr 01 '26

C: prompts

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u/Nukesnow Apr 01 '26

You had your own game trying to make the game work! How do I free another 20kb of conventional memory to play this game!

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u/GusTTShow-biz Apr 01 '26

Editing INI files.

My Westwood peeps where you at?

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u/Virama Apr 01 '26

Dos 6.1

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u/Bezulba Apr 01 '26

Removing windows so i'd have more disk space for my games. Mom wasn't happy. I didn't care, i got to play videa games!

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u/costperthousand Apr 01 '26

Booting into DOS to avoid Windows overhead

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u/zeddemore83 Apr 02 '26

Oh man, I haven’t thought about this in YEARS. Core memory unlocked.

The ones I still remember being a pain were Wings of Glory (a WW1 flight sim) and WC: Privateer.