Well, I am just glad that it works now. Unfortunately, I found out that there are WFWG 3.11 drivers for the integrated ethernet on the school computer running all this. So all the trouble I went through, and risking my ISA Etherlink III being stolen
(nasty students
), was not even necessary.
Turns out, SkyRoads Xmas edition is so ridiculously hard, I don't even recommend it. The first one is much more fun, not impossible.
For all of you people who have those old 120mb hard drives with 50mb
(or more...
) of bad blocks, but happen to have a caddy cdrom drive, do what I did for my friend. Get a truckload of games from dosgames.com and such, install it manually into directories, and burn those to a cd. Since you probably have more than one caddy, it would just be a matter of popping in the one with the games, and then playing. A menu system burned to the cd could probably be simple to configure, and worst comes to worst, just make a ridiculously huge path= statement in the autoexec.bat.
Pretty funny to realize that a burned cd has more space than the hard drive, and is more reliable considering that it is in a caddy, and doesn't need to be parked to prevent damage. Those caddies are pretty useful...I wouldn't mind having a drive like that today. Instead of a ton of loose cds, at least having a ton of loose caddies that will not disintegrate...
I'll recommend more as I delve further into my DOS adventures. I really want to test some menu programs, I remember some of them from years ago on old pc's in school. If I could find one of those...
(nice machines, really
).
Oh yeah, and all of the Learning Company games are excellent. I have a ton of great memories of those. But they always looked better on the macs, with their superior graphics cards of the time
(and multiplied pricetag
).
