Wyatt (🏳️⚧️♀?)
wyatt8740@tech.lgbt
What did people do back in the day to manage changing CONFIG.SYS files around? - Before DOS 6 when the menu commands were introduced. I ask because PC-9800 series MS-DOS 6.20 doesn't seem to have the boot menu capability of western DOS.
I wrote a batch script but it feels like this is a task a lot of people would have had to do at some point and there might be a popular tool for it. #DOS #msdos #pcdos #pc98
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@wyatt8740 As I recall, it was mostly having multiple floppies.
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Wyatt (🏳️⚧️♀?)
wyatt8740@tech.lgbt@foeclan That'd work. But only if booting from floppy.
I guess it didn't matter as much in the west, but drive lettering depends on what you boot from on the PC-98. Whatever you boot from, whether HDD or floppy or whatever, becomes drive A:.
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K. Ryabitsev 🍁
monsieuricon
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Wyatt (🏳️⚧️♀?)
wyatt8740@tech.lgbt@monsieuricon sounds hard to remember those names. Or like it wouldn't scale well... :p
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K. Ryabitsev 🍁
monsieuricon
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@monsieuricon I had to make three so far: one for windows 3.1 and SCSI CD-ROM drivers to load, one for most games, and one for a specific game that needed mouse.sys and himem.sys and emm386 and mouse.com loaded at boot. :p
Admittedly this is on a PC-9801 rather than an IBM compatible.
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K. Ryabitsev 🍁
monsieuricon
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Wyatt (🏳️⚧️♀?)
wyatt8740@tech.lgbt@monsieuricon I learned to program first on an unexpanded VIC-20 with only a datasette drive... so I'm not entirely unfamiliar with that stuff. Also got an AT&T 6300 (Olivetti M24) 8086 PC here with 360KB floppy drives :)
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