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Originally Posted by Eagle of Fire
Well, that is certainly the point. DOS 7.0 (the one used in Windows) is a really dumbed down version of the "real" DOS. There is not even a third of all the commands you would find in the "real" DOS, and thus it is incomplete.
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Commands that you don't need to run DOS games, yes, they are missing. But why would you need obsolete DOS commands, as that was just the part of OS, not of the games them self.
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Originally Posted by Eagle of Fire
I've found plenty of games which simply refused to run in the WIN DOS of my version of '98 SE without heavy changes to the config.sys and the autoexec.bat. Changes which were common place in a normal installation of the "real" DOS.
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You apparently have forgot boot disks and other ways people had to change their DOS 6.22 in the order to support different games. In the order to utilize memory available for the game to start, you had to disable all unneeded startup programs. I used menu sistem where you have to select if you like to have extended memory (2 sizes), CD driver load (that took a lot of memory), etc. Win98SE made this much easier with shortcuts, so instead of creating hell of the main autoexec.bat/config.sys you could create shortcut which will run DOS startup you need. (I ended having 2 of these for games from abandonia)
If there are still topics from old abandonia, there should be topic with instructions of how to do this. I couldn't find a single game on abandonia that didn't work with my setup.
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Originally Posted by Eagle of Fire
WIN DOS also introduced the "improvement" on the extended DOS name files, such as testfi~1.exe... Which is not much of an improvement in itself as long as DOS is concerned. It was simply a way Microsoft devised to go around the problem without taking time to actually fix it...
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Win9X fixed the problem of short file names, and it's version of DOS supported both, long and short file names. Ideal for back compatibility and IMHO one of the good solution.
I'm not sure how much you remember DOS 6.22, but if you tried to name 2 files this_is_long_name.txt and this_is_long_name_2.txt, OS will tell you that you are trying to overwrite first file, even names are different. They fixed that with introduction of long file names in DOS 7.0.
Win9X solved many problems like that, but people are not aware about those fixes. Also complaining that there is not the same number of commands does not make any sense. You can use Windows for all file working and system settings, while DOS operates just as it should.
Try to find that topic about shortcuts in Win98SE. It was about 2-3 years ago. It will help you use Win9X the best (and correct) way.
