I'm just pretending I have a job now... today:

Nothing like having an extended weekend; I haven't played enough Rimworld, smoked enough weed, fucked around w/textmode stuff and put off the rear suspension on my car again.

Boy are the next four days at work going to be busy! Thank goodness for this rest.

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fang-castro wrote to All <=-

Nothing like having an extended weekend; I haven't played enough
Rimworld, smoked enough weed, fucked around w/textmode stuff and put
off the rear suspension on my car again.

Well, I have a job, but I've been playing with DOSBOX running a disk image
and a real version of DOS 6.22. Installed Windows 3.11 and Geoworks, and am spending way too much time reliving my 90's computing environment.


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Re: Re: (not) having a job
By: poindexter FORTRAN to fang-castro on Fri Oct 08 2021 06:51 am

Well, I have a job, but I've been playing with DOSBOX running a disk image and a real version of DOS 6.22. Installed Windows 3.11 and Geoworks, and am spending way too much time reliving my 90's computing environment.

I didn't think you could run an actual DOS with DOSBox; I thought DOSBox basically had its own implementation of a DOS environment. How is that different from running MS-DOS 6.22 in a VM with something like VMWare or VirtualBox etc.?

Nightfox

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Re: Re: (not) having a job
By: Nightfox to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri Oct 08 2021 02:42 pm

I didn't think you could run an actual DOS with DOSBox; I thought DOSBox basically had its own implementation of a DOS environment. How is that different from running MS-DOS 6.22 in a VM with something like VMWare or VirtualBox etc.?

It's similar.

Instead of running its own environment, you create a blank disk image (basically a container file) and boot the DOS installation disk. from DOS setup, you format the disk image, install DOS on it, and when you boot again, you're running in DOS.

The serial port redirection works, I can connect via Telix to port 23, and packet drivers work fine.

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Re: Re: (not) having a job
By: poindexter FORTRAN to fang-castro on Fri Oct 08 2021 06:51 am

fang-castro wrote to All <=-

Nothing like having an extended weekend; I haven't played enough Rimworld, smoked enough weed, fucked around w/textmode stuff and put off the rear suspension on my car again.

Well, I have a job, but I've been playing with DOSBOX running a disk image and a real version of DOS 6.22. Installed Windows 3.11 and Geoworks, and am spending way too much time reliving my 90's computing environment.

I was messing around with some DOS ANCI Art programs I downloaded from different boards. I really wana try some stuff like WordStar, productivity type stuff. I wanted to try the Email-QWR/whatever the hell message and email download stuff so that I could see how powerful those features are for reading/writing with minimal connection time.

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Re: Re: (not) having a job
By: Vlk-451 to poindexter FORTRAN on Wed Oct 20 2021 09:56 pm

I was messing around with some DOS ANCI Art programs I downloaded from different boards. I really wana try some stuff like WordStar, productivity

What is ANCI?

Nightfox

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Re: Re: (not) having a job
By: Nightfox to Vlk-451 on Thu Oct 21 2021 09:21 am

I was messing around with some DOS ANCI Art programs I downloaded from different boards. I really wana try some stuff like WordStar, productivity

What is ANCI?

come on man
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Re: Re: (not) having a job
By: MRO to Nightfox on Thu Oct 21 2021 01:25 pm

I was messing around with some DOS ANCI Art programs I downloaded
from different boards. I really wana try some stuff like WordStar,
productivity

What is ANCI?

come on man

You know the thing.

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Vlk-451 wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

I was messing around with some DOS ANCI Art programs I downloaded from different boards. I really wana try some stuff like WordStar,
productivity type stuff. I wanted to try the Email-QWR/whatever the
hell message and email download stuff so that I could see how powerful those features are for reading/writing with minimal connection time.

I'm doing that right now. I'm using Qedit, a great text editor. MultiMail, a fairly recently updated QWK reader. Telix to upload/download packets. It's like it's 1992 all over again. :)


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Re: Re: (not) having a job
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Vlk-451 on Thu Oct 21 2021 06:29 am

I'm doing that right now. I'm using Qedit, a great text editor. MultiMail, a fairly recently updated QWK reader. Telix to upload/download packets. It's like it's 1992 all over again. :)

I used to use Qedit for DOS a lot back in the day.

Nightfox

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Re: Re: (not) having a job
By: Nightfox to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri Oct 22 2021 08:55 am

Re: Re: (not) having a job
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Vlk-451 on Thu Oct 21 2021 06:29 am

I'm doing that right now. I'm using Qedit, a great text editor. MultiMail, a fairly recently updated QWK reader. Telix to upload/download packets. It's like it's 1992 all over again. :)

I used to use Qedit for DOS a lot back in the day.

Nightfox

i use something called kit, which is a pretty nice 32bit console text editor. not the greatest, but it works.
https://turtlewar.org/projects/editor/
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Nightfox wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

I'm doing that right now. I'm using Qedit, a great text editor. MultiMail, a fairly recently updated QWK reader. Telix to upload/download packets. It's like it's 1992 all over again. :)

I used to use Qedit for DOS a lot back in the day.

Qedit burned the Wordstar command bindings into my brain, to this day.

I did a NANOWRIMO with Qedit (and VDE) one year.


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Re: Re: (not) having a job
By: Nightfox to Vlk-451 on Thu Oct 21 2021 09:21 am

Re: Re: (not) having a job
By: Vlk-451 to poindexter FORTRAN on Wed Oct 20 2021 09:56 pm

I was messing around with some DOS ANCI Art programs I downloaded from different boards. I really wana try some stuff like WordStar, productivity

What is ANCI?

I made a mistake.

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Vlk-451 wrote to Nightfox <=-

What is ANCI?

I made a mistake.

Mictakes happen.


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Re: Re: (not) having a job
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Vlk-451 on Mon Nov 08 2021 06:58 am

What is ANCI?

I made a mistake.

Mictakes happen.

He knew full well what you meant, we all make mitsteaks.

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