Re: QOTW (Well, more like Question Of The Season...)

["Matt Burke" <mburke6@gmu.edu>]

I liked DOS because when I started to program It was the only thing there.
Now I like DOS because I yearn for the old days, and I can pump out a simple
prog to amuse myself on my hundreds of 486-286's, but avoid having a pentium
or athlon make my simple prog go berserkingly fast.  That and it's great fun
studying really old games by disassembling them, modifying them and running
them again on the origional intended hardware.  So in the end, DOS rox
because I'm a sap and I don't need much power. (Although if I did, I'd use
IRIX ;)
        -Matt

> One question that has really bugged me watching the list over the last
> year or so is that there are still lots of people starting to learn to
> program games on DOS when the commercial game world has moved on to
> Windows and to a (MUCH) lesser extent to using Linux and the Mac.
>
> So, I have to ask why is DOS still so popular? There is NO commercial
> market for DOS games. You can't take advantage of new hardware from DOS.
> You can't even be sure that your code will run on another computer.
>


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