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  • Dyskolos@lemmy.zipEnglish
    9·
    10 months ago

    Was it really FUN or is it not just nostalgia? I would not reaaaally want to fiddle with the autostart-crap again. It often took soooo long. Even with those auto-optimizers…

      • jj4211@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        10 months ago

        So do you want EMS or XMS this time? I’m sorry, you had too many TSRs, you can’t run X-Wing now…

      • Dyskolos@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        Aye. But then again… The fiddling with windows to make it do what u want and don’t what you don’t, is not much less time wasted. You can just use a mouse now 😂

    • pascal@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      With dos 5.x I started creating some fancy auroexec menu at boot that switches between several configurations depending if I wanted to run windows, need a lot of xms or a big chunk of Ems (640k was NOT enough for everything).

      It was somehow fun.

      But at least, if something is not working, it was entirely your fault. Now? It’s probably windows update who fucked up something you desperately need right now.

      • Dyskolos@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        That’s a good point, yes. At least we knew what fucked up. Today you can’t. It’s too much and too complex. And nearly nothing is under your direct control anymore. Only android or ios are doing it worse and take all of your controls away.