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[Gandalf]

I had an old Pentium III 600 Mhz laptop and I never had much fun using it with pure DOS. The on-board sound chip used to crash with a horrible *creeeeeach-crrzzzl* out of the speakers soon after I started a DOS game with sound. After a while I figured that it was in fact a combined driver/hardware problem. The DOS driver wasn't fully compatible and caused the chip to lock up until reboot. It didn't occur in Windows (Millenium Edition btw LOL), maybe because this driver had a higher priority in development which resulted in better testing. Of course this is a very specific an possibly unique problem, but you never know what you will get.

Also the LCD had some problems adjusting to the old games' screen resolution. Often I got only a tiny view with huge black borders. And if the display managed to adjust it to fullscreen, then the quality of the resized image was awful. (At least nowhere near of today's fullscreen interpolation.) This is surely a more common problem.


Now you know about my laptop's adventures in the lands of DOS. (May it rest in peace...)

Hopefully yours will be more lucky.