PurpleJillybeans Dec 9

#DOSember isn't JUST about gaming, so I want to celebrate the season by doing something new to me: giving #FreeDOS a try! I've known about it for ages but I've never actually used it before. I'm going to give it a try in 86Box, and once I've got a feel for it there I'll set it up on my Win98 machine.

It seems to have a nice package collection and I get the impression that dev and networking on it are pretty solid. And of course we'll do some gaming!

#RetroComputing

Show threadPurpleJillybeans Dec 10
Looking good so far. Adding "TRY" to the FDNET.BAT call in FDAUTO.BAT was all I needed to get networking going under 86Box with a PCnet-III. I'll have to actually install the packet driver for my 3c905 when I set it up on the real rig, but should work the same otherwise.
Show threadPurpleJillybeans Dec 10
Bleh, ran into problems while setting up games. Descent doesn't seem to like it; setup crashes on launch and the game itself only gets to the title screen before hanging.
Show threadARGVMI~1.PIFDec 10

@PurpleJillybeans

Note that Descent is open source and been ported to modern operating systems.

Show threadPurpleJillybeans 
@argv_minus_one I suppose I should put a disclaimer on these sorts of posts explicitly stating "I'm well aware of modern source ports; that's not the point."
Dec 10 at 5:23amWeb