Lol. You got me at the right time, I am tweaking a school computer to work with dos.
Favorite apps? Fakedos. Oh yes. Some nasty student kept going into the computer and deleting system files.
Doskey.
Most useful tool ever. Heheh. I am currently looking for some sort of way to fill in the rest of the filename or command that I am typing, like Linux does. Typing the strange names of some installation programs can be tedious.
Windows For Workgroups 3.11
I don't know, for something that says it is for workgroups, out of the box it is terrible at its job.
TCP/IP update and IE 5
(not really...
) fixes that. I'll probably use Netscape instead of IE 5, as I just like the way that the early versions work.
QBasic seems to be one of Microsoft's rare occurances of releasing something useful for free, and it is a cool program. I was trying to display the same thing as I did in C with it, and learned some from the helpful guide. Same opinion about Edit.
Fakedos looks like a normal prompt, but will return errors to whatever is typed, unless if it is the password. Problem solved, they don't even know what is going on.
Games?
Liero. If you think Half Life 2, Doom, UT2004, and others are good, you haven't seen
nothing. 2d destruction can lead you to make some of the craziest moves of all time, such as your worm dropping off a piece of dirt, bouncing off a rock, stealing the health your opponent was about to get, and dissolving them in a deadly attack of spikeballs. Oh yes.
SkyRoads is another. In the pre-3d age, this title is very cool. I just like it. Xmas edition looks interesting as well. The objective is to bounce from one platform/road to the other, while moving at increasing speeds. It is not that big of a game, but fun nonetheless.
Mario Teaches Typing
Some people would know that I would get to this...I just can't help but be addicted to those classic educational games. And know what? Instead of typing very fast with two fingers
(without looking
), I am now almost at that point with both hands.
That piece of software was definitely not easy to get my hands on, but ever since I played the demo on a cd of mine...
Battle Chess
That cd happened to be of the game Battle Chess. I have not tested it on 3.11 yet, but it should run fine, as it was from that time really, not Windows 95. The cd came with a plethora of demos for dos games, many of which I am still searching for.
(Star Wars games and such
). It has been quite a few years since I last explored that cd, and when I rediscover it, there will be some more favorite titles of mine.
Probably more to come.