The BEST way to do DOS stuff! // DWEEB_DOS Tour

[@zombee38]

I need to watch this before YT deletes it !

[@TechDweeb]

Be quick! I'm fading away as we speak!

[@edtuckerartist]

@@TechDweeb is ᶠᵃᵈⁱⁿᵍ ' ' ' ' . . . . . 😳😲

[@adamkane7513]

Claim you are a woman. KZbin favors the rainbow crowd. Normal Men get censored!

[@MadMullins]

I downloaded it before I even played it just to be sure!

[@BabyOtter]

Why is it being deleted 😢

[@OndrejSvinciak-qr7uc]

i am 28 , i completely missed this era ,and there is this hunger with me now to try this out , i dont think that i would be ever up to researching this on my own ,nevermind compiling a whole ....thing . Thank you dweeb , for opening the doors of DOS to me :D

[@joeykeilholz925]

I'm even younger 🤓 play some shadow warrior

[@OndrejSvinciak-qr7uc]

oh hell yeah , Alright 😎

[@jeffreypeters5578]

I don't really know if you'll appreciate it as much.During this time(I'm 39 almost 40) as a child gaming was cool because we didn't have so many of them or they was just in its true infancy.Alot of awesome games that pushed the limits but now days so many games have ports or newer versions that are better to play.Going back to these games are nostalgic for me and i like that but i hate not having at least 60 fps and other things im spoiled with now.I also recommend a 4:3 monitor for a more accurate feel

[@OndrejSvinciak-qr7uc]

​@@jeffreypeters5578 yeah , i think ist something amazing to have seen and lived trough the first era of true videogames ,where every idea was fresh and so exciting , sadly i can only emulate theese feelings in my brain when i play , by keeping this in my mind while i do so , that this was somebodys first introduction to games , i still take get a lot of joy from this, also as per your recomendation i will purchase an hacksaw to convert my current monitor to the proper ratio 😁😁😁

[@OleAlexanderBrunaes]

You can sort of say that the DOS era ended on May 16, 2019, that's when the last official update to Windows XP became available. Windows XP is not DOS-based, but can be installed from DOS. Windows Servers based on XP, which came later, have not been able to be updated for even longer. That's what I've heard.

[@dragon2knight]

YAY! This one got past the YT censors, good to see! Excellent video on DOS emulation, I love it, and like you, I lived through the original timeline of DOS and it was glorious ❤

[@TechDweeb]

I still have no idea why the original was flagged, but I'm glad the 2nd attempt made it through!

[@bn7451]

@@TechDweeb I was in the middle of watching it, getting my techdweeb vibe on and POOF!

[@CellPhish]

All the Commander Keen footage brings m4 back to the hundreds of ours I played on the old 386

[@matttyree1002]

When I was a kid, i was pretty good at DOS. I even resisted switching to win 95, but when 98 came out i finally gave in. But not using dos for so long, i forgot a lot about how to use it. This was a fun little refresher :)

[@ToyKeeper]

Win95 was a great way to get more than one DOS at a time, with a hotkey to switch between them. Unfortunately, it was also a great way to get a badly corrupted hard drive. That still stings 28 years later. But on the bright side, it motivated me to completely abandon proprietary software and switch to Linux.

[@jeffreypeters5578]

Of course half life unreal tournament,quake 3.WIN 98 CHANGED ME MORE THAN GETTING MY CHERRY POPPED.I was 14 in 98 and got my first PC and met my wife the same yr of course we waited after hs for marriage

[@Cyko..]

I remember going to Computer Shows back in the day and getting a full sealed box of DOS 6.2 on floppy disks and manuals for FREE along with a bunch of other freebies, but that one stuck out the most. I had so much fun that night installing it.

[@stressless8405]

I had duke nukem 3d arjed on 10 floppys. I was so hardcore because the hookers showed their pixel tities

[@jonathont5570]

I have supported EXODOS for sooo many years and versions, Exo is great since it has all the DOS addons like different sound players, 3dfx and others that I had back in the day configured ready to go.

[@jessejayjones]

The colors on this video really pop! It's so cool seeing all the retro machines all together, really sweet set-up! Excited to check this out and play some Golbiins 2! :D

[@TechDweeb]

Goblins! is a GREAT series!

[@TheIzzyNobreShow]

I see a Dweeb video => I watch it and like it immediately A Dweeb video ABOUT DOS? I'm making some popcorn for this one, fellas. BTW, I used to play MagicDOSBox on my ancient GPD XD a bunch. Now that Apple allows emulators on the AppStore, I'm DYING for someone to bring a DOS emulation solution for it. Keyboard and mouse support, AND 4:3(ish) aspect ratio?! Portable HoMM2, Red Alert, Syndicate Wars?! Sign me the eff up!

[@TechDweeb]

Haha thanks buddy!I totally didn't think about Dosbox on the AppStore. I wasn't excited about IOS emulation until your comment just now, but DOS on the iPhone is suddenly all I care about :P

[@MrHumbuck]

I've never used DOS, but your version sounds like a pretty convenient way to give it a try! I'll save this video for when I've got an opportunity

[@TheTravis1984]

This was great! thanks! I remember running dos on an old 8086 machine when I was a kid. My Dad had bought it used from fedEx. I used that machine for years!

[@MiDonGo]

Going to play around with it this weekend. I was actually in the middle of setting up DOS on Retroarch when I came across your video. Thanks for sharing. I definitely like your way better.

[@shecklesmack9563]

Windows 3.1 and DOS were the standard when I was just barely old enough to play video games. I was all PC until PS2 came out so this is retro gaming for me.

[@Old_Man_Jay]

This is awesome! I've always avoided dos box because I always thought it'd be too complicated to set up (I'm extremely impatient!). This video made it all so simple for my adhd brain to comprehend! Now I can go ahead and try a lot of games I missed back when I was a kid! (was mostly into consoles)

[@dawiekaboutereen]

Fellow dinosaur here. Great video and I love your setup. This gives me something to do with my old PIII. Greetings from South Africa.

[@Surai00]

I finally caught the Canadian accent. Still can't tell which region! DOS always reminds me of my days as a Gaming Corp IT Tech. We used IBM for everything at the Casinos. Down there making a million dollars a day, and we are up in the office running software from the early 90s.

[@TechDweeb]

North Ontario 🍁

[@Surai00]

@TechDweeb I'm down in Niagara Falls! I heard it's nice up by Hudson Bay, but I've never been. Beautiful forest scenery, I'm sure.

[@Tombastic77]

Wow this has the nostalia cranked way up. I'm definitely trying this out. Thanks for all you do for the community TechDweeb!

[@NoiseRockGamer]

Orange really is the best color.

[@danandtab7463]

Takes me back to 1993 when my dad bought a DOS6/Win3.1 computer and told me I needed to learn how to use it. Totally self taught with trial error and some help from those thick manuals that came with it. If I recreated this setup, I'd probably choose a green/blue color because that's what the PS/2 used. Good times. :)

[@billm970]

Great video. I really appreciate the time you spent customizing dosbox. Looking forward to part 3.

[@TobiasWiggle]

This is very helpful. Thank you! I've used MSDOS is in the (distant) past but it's been so long I forgot even little things like cd and dir. This is enough to let me start some stuff I got from GoG to see if they run a bit better in Staging as opposed to the preconfigured DOSBox they come with.

[@Shigarui]

I remember getting our first PC. And I remember getting our first mouse. They were not at the same time, lol. Back when DOS was your only method of installing and accessing programs and games. Such a simpler time. I miss it

[@beowolf410]

WOOOHOOO! back up!!

[@TechDweeb]

Fingers crossed it stays up 🤞

[@cappnplanetcappnplanet3237]

Wait isn't this the 2nd video in the series and different from the first video which wasn't reposted yet?

[@BradleyBrown]

Nice job putting this all together! As a fellow 40-something, I appreciate the level of work that you had to put in. I have a Pi4 kicking around, I may have to set this up. My 10-year old son loves the old DOS games and the Linux command prompt.

[@kimura317]

loving these videos! The fun you're having messing with dosbox is infectious.

[@edtuckerartist]

ZX81 Basic was my first foray into computers back in the plecosaur era of computing.

[@edtuckerartist]

My first PC was a beige box 386 with 4mb of ram.

[@fredericmanson441]

TO7 was my first foray into programming with BASIC. The teacher was working with his "customized" ZX81 with "embeded" mini CRT screen!!

[@umbrellacorp.]

Great video, helping to relax my nerves.

[@BMovieTheater]

Loving this series! Can't wait for the next one! :D

[@jackdoobie]

Ultima 2 & 3... one of the first (adventure) games I finished multiple times. Great to see it up and running again.

[@TechDweeb]

I downloaded them all (had them on my GOG account for reasons I don't remember). I'm trying to figure out which is the perfect RPG to start with in my new DOS journey. I'm leaning towards Ultima 7 (the combo one) and then working my way backwards, alternating between Ultima & DnD (maybe side tangent into Wizardry). I'm not vowing to finish them, just to give them all a righteous attempt.

[@fabiencortial9850]

Many thanks for sharing your work, highly appreciated. I was in college when dos was high on the market (I would say 1990 to 1994) after Atari, Amiga and before win31 so I missed few jewels but it's time to re-discover in good condition with your help. Greetings from France.

[@cosmicusstardust3300]

Can confirm this runs on Linux! Thanks for this awesome custom DOS Emulator!

[@retroman--]

I remember learning DOS in school. Then one year they showed us this new device called the mouse and the teacher took the ball out and we all got to try. I thought the mouse was weird but also cutting edge tech.

[@peterdempster2257]

thanks for Dweeb Dos works great. I used to know dos back in the day but have to remember now

[@pd5170]

Great video. I really like the orange color as it reminds me of the monochrome screens I used to play my games on, 30 years ago. Just a quick note. You can go back a folder by typing: cd.. (no space needed). Also to exit some games, there was a default key combination that used to work to many games, that's: ctr+c

[@richardcnrd8302]

Great job !awesome colour too the dweebinator!!

[@sweetasdude]

I dunno back then how I figured out how to wangle things like config.sys, autoexec.bat, himem, audio, IRQ clashes, modem strings. What I do remember, I remember fondly. Great job TD.

[@izzy4492]

so cool. i was born in 2000 and have never played DOS games, but it looks really interesting. will download it to go through its racing games library!

[@ToyKeeper]

DOS was great fun. Basically a completely open system where programs had direct hardware access and could do absolutely anything. I really enjoyed learning how to push it to its limits... starting with "*0xA0000 = 1;" to put a pixel into the VGA framebuffer, and working up from there. I loved getting all the latest demoscene releases, reverse-engineering them, and writing my own versions... often integrating the effects into my paint program. Like that Mars demo you showed, for example... I had a feature where you could walk around on the picture you painted, in height-mapped 3D. It's too bad I lost almost all my source code. All I have left now is a .exe release of the last version I built in Turbo C, before I started a 32-bit rewrite in djgpp.

[@jonphang806]

thanks so much for your tutorial! It has been the best one I have seen so far and it as inspired me to get more into retro tech! thanks for sharing! 100% recommended!

[@nickwort123]

I’m really excited to throw this on my steam deck!

[@Adrian-ek8hu]

Thank you exactly what I was looking for. You're a star 🌟

[@MadMullins]

Excellent work as always TechDweeb!

[@bobbyllama]

maybe worth noting you can also add the /p flag to the dir command to paginate overflow of directory listings. "dir /w /p" will list entries in the wide format until the screen is full, pause, and wait for a keypress before displaying the remaining page(s)

[@MrScottyTay]

this is an awesome tutorial. definitely setting this up on my more "retro-esque" PC

[@bembelknecht]

For all the nostalgia... I actually do not miss the DOS prompt, working with a Linux command line half the day :D

[@olivander65]

This series is great! Thanks for sharing. I really enjoyed messing with dosbox as a kid. I remember I found out there was a tiefighter game for dos and spent hours trying to get it to run well on my old intel laptop. Hopefully dosbox staging has less fiddling than I had to do back then.

[@OrbitalSP2]

I have a Pentium 2 350Mhz with 128 mb of ram, a Nvidia Vanta Lt and a Soundblaster AWE32. I love it for the nostalgia, but I like to use Dosbox too!

[@DonaldWyman]

Growing up, my only experience with DOS was limited to school and even then it was limited to starting up what ever program the teacher wanted us to start up, so this is kinda neat(I didn't own a computer my self until I was an adult on my own in like 2002 or so.) Having watched this, I can't help but notice some DOS commands are very similar to terminal commands on Linux.

[@SeeJayPlayGames]

that's because they stole them from CP/M, which stole them from Unix.

[@crystal_is_cozy]

I feel like you added that color line in especially for Crystal so she can make things pink. ilu, friend.

[@TechDweeb]

COZY_DOS release when?

[@DashingFox]

Here we are again

[@GardeningwithDave]

Welcome back captain ❤

[@CFWhitman]

DOSBox is also natively available for Linux, so you don't need to run it through WINE to use it. I was actually running DOSBox in Linux before I knew of a Windows version. That was a long time ago now. I think that I first ran the Windows version in Windows 2000, but after Windows XP had come out. Regardless, if you are not experienced with Linux, you may find it easier just to use the Windows version through WINE, but if you want to run it natively in Linux, you can.

[@TechDweeb]

For sure. I was just showing that so people know they can use this build without having to set it up themselves. Definitely running it natively is preferred 👍

[@DeanEvolved]

The vid is back, yay 🙂 the original got pulled while I was watching it! Great stuff as usual. Cheers from Australia.

[@ounaku]

Oh my god, you helped me find my childhood fav game skyroads!!!

[@curtislevey7639]

The root beer essay bit was a pleasure to read 😂

[@TechDweeb]

Haha glad someone noticed that :P

[@DaisyHollowBooks]

This looks pretty sweet. I look forward to playing some old games like Allied General.

[@DaisyHollowBooks]

BTW: I remember using programs stored on a cassette tape.

[@ChaosGenerator]

My uncle bought us an old Tandy Color Computer with a million games on floppy that we had an absolute blast with once we separated the copious amounts of turds from the few gems. It even had a voice synthesizer card that came with it that worked on a very crude point and click adventure game that I forget the name of and it blew us away at the time even though it sounded like somebody threw a bucket of water on Stephen Hawking's voice box.

[@F0r3v3rT0m0rr0w]

This is so cool. and definitely a goal for the future.

[@Hwi1son]

I always wondered why orange was my favorite color now I know why

[@LisaRay-qd3sc]

Potential video ideas... 1. Virtual pinball setup? Using emulators like Visual Pinball / Pinmame to play recreations of real tables (and fantasy ones). As well as the best devices to do it on. Is it even possible to handheld pinball emulate? 2. Exercising for nerds? Best retro tech (or modern) for nerd exercise? Wii type games, Switch Ring, or modern gamification like Zwift? All that Root Beer has gotta go somewhere...

[@joshhallam2253]

My family's first computer was a DOS. It was a computer from my dad's job when they upgraded. I never figured out how to use it. In college, in my first computer science class we did everything from a Linux terminal. After learning that I wanted to try !y hands at that computer but my parents had thrown it away 15 years earlier. Now ill have to try this.

[@fredericmanson441]

WOW!!! DOS... My first true PC (Pentium 120) was running DOS & W3.1. It's so nostalgic... Oh, yup, did you play Age of Empire with the K2000 kameo??? It was so cooooool!! 😋

[@broinasvalentin1727]

Cool! I very recently discovered that dosbox is preconfigured and runs most games out of the box on my Anbernic RG353M with ArkOS. The games run directly from zipfile, key mapping I left it default because with some of my favorites that aren't running as ports, runs pretty much out of the box for games like Dangerous Dave and even Jetpack runs perfectly (but for Jetpack, from the game menu I use L3 to bring the on screen keyboad to pres S and after that everything is perfect), dosbox on ArkOS also does save states. :D

[@KayoMichiels]

If i where to drink everytime you said 'DOS' i would be hammered after just 3 minutes!

[@jay-rad98]

I bought that nes keyboard. I can’t bring myself to open it. It might be worth a million bucks in the future.

[@VipersCave1]

I Love It 🤩 I'm 44 and Ms Dos was my childhood home... And for some reason that sounds weird 🤔 Oh well.. gg

[@Matthew_Turner]

Love seeing the young pups on here getting excited to experience the origins of PC's! DOS was my first OS as well! Keeping the flame alive like its 1980! Keep up the DWEEBIE content dude!

[@TechDweeb]

Will do!

[@lordgeyik]

Yay, shader support!

[@ryanfowlow8034]

The first PC games i remember playing as a kid were Wolfenstien 3D and Skyroads. Good times.. Can't forget good old Math Circus. 😆

[@payne540]

Oh man, this is awesome!

[@allenfrisch]

Thanks, Dweebster! This is an awesome build! Can't wait to play all the old Lucasarts games!!

[@SeeJayPlayGames]

If you're talking about the adventure games, you realize you can play those with SCUMMVM, right? Now, if you're talking about games like X-Wing and TIE Fighter... uhh... yeah. DOSBOX it is.

[@allenfrisch]

@@SeeJayPlayGames YES... Those were my absolute favorite DOS games!! They even had cool cutscenes that were interesting!

[@SeeJayPlayGames]

@@allenfrisch which? Your post was unclear.

[@allenfrisch]

@@SeeJayPlayGames Ah, sorry, X-Wing and TIE-Fighter!

[@SeeJayPlayGames]

@@allenfrisch kinda figured but wasn't positive

[@KyleRuggles]

HA! DOS runs windows!!! Remember that!? LOL! I love DOS! Kinda had to know it when I had windows 3.1 back in 94'. Man, time flies, thanks for the vid!

[@akane6625]

Thank you very much for this very well explained video. Thank you also for this very practical version of DOSBOX which I will hurry to download. I was wondering if it would one day be possible to offer an explanatory video on how Amiga and Amiga CD32 games work on Miyoo Mini Plus. I find it very complicated to use, and no video on KZbin gives real information. Thank you again for all your work 😍

[@grantschilb8019]

I'll have to check this out, maybe I'll throw it onto my HTPC i've been trying to set up for a bit.

[@RetroGamingNook]

My compliments.

[@Bossman207-g7x]

I know there’s reason to be in windows for set up, but maybe after you’re all done with that, you could suggest adding dos_box to startup, so that it starts with windows.

[@TechDweeb]

That's what I did on my dedicated setup :)

[@vhsretrogamer1664]

Imagine windows 95/98/xp someday on something like miyoo mini ultra. With gyro as mouse. This is worth living longer for

[@luckygreentiger]

DOS is 11 characters: 8 for the file name, dot, 3 for the extension

[@zombee38]

Look its ORANGE DOS yey !

[@retrogameboys-rgb]

[@BlueTrueEthan]

Hey bro, thanks for this, this is awesome! In the video before this, you mentioned being able to start your PC directly into DOSBox. How do you go about doing this? Thank you again :)

[@edtuckerartist]

Here in the UK this # is a hash symbol and this £ is the pound sign. 🤪

[@jakegreenwoodphotography]

On twitter/x do Americans call #livingmybestlife a hash tag or a pound tag, I wonder 🤔

[@priscillaquinn9505]

I love the dos games: night raid, hexxagon and sky roads. Oh and death rally. Have them set up perfectly on the miyoo mini

[@bigT49A]

Just had a look at DOSBox Staging as it comes out of the box (...pun intended :/ ...). Great project, but you have done a great job improving the look & feel (nothing beats orange!) and functionality - this should become the standard :))

[@MrGareth1973]

Thank you.

[@benthomson1132]

I meant to comment sooner, just want to say how awesome this is! Will you please make a video for Dweeb DOS on the Deck? Even if it's dead simple, I'd still love to see it. Thank you!

[@TechDweeb]

That is so generous, thank you so much! I have "dos on the deck" on my "vids to make asap" list ;)

[@benthomson1132]

@@TechDweeb Huzzah! I just dropped the first Commander Keen into the Dweeb DOS Games folder (running on my PC and not yet my Steam Deck), it ran no problem. I already had some games from the ExoDOS project but there's a strange intangible joy to accessing them this way. Now I just need to unzip and move over my favorite games. 🙂 Thanks again!

[@raniel0511]

Since you started that series some hidden childhood games from the win 93 cd Rom era popped in my head an now i'm browsing the web trying to find one old platformer gamer with kind of shatae vibes/gameplay. Also the Hot Wheels Stunt Race Game, I know it's not exactly DOS, but i wanted to share it with you.

[@davidv1376]

skyroads, such a fire game

[@PG-gs5vb]

I wonder why all of the retro channels avoid using a proper file manager for DOS, such as Volkov Commander or Dos Navigator. It makes the experience so much more comfortable than plain command line. I mean, pretty much everyone I know used it back in the day.

[@TechDweeb]

10:44

[@jakegreenwoodphotography]

😏

[@RemyBonnici]

I could definitely go back and play Descent .. that game was the sh*t!

[@Ankjell]

I'm so going to do this

[@conza1989]

(*whispers* NGL, taskbar on top is kinda cool... Very macOS, and I quite like macOS). I loved changing directory and entering DIR as a kid, launching Hocus Pocus, Earth Worm Jim, or more obscure, Maths Blaster - yes an actual child, good times were had :)

[@remoschramm]

i just build me a "retro battle station" from a older hp workstation notebook (which can hold one ssd and one hdd) and installed the whole exodos library also installed retroarch and a bunch off other emulators

[@janbiela8596]

Wonderful video! DOS was a bit before my time but I’m very eager to try this out. There is an old unused 4:3 monitor hidden away in my office, now I know what to use it for :) Would you be interested in also making a video about old windows emulation in the future? Those games would also benefit from the 4:3 screen!

[@hiltonburleson6111]

Dude you need to review the anbernic rg 28xx and the anbernic rg35xxsp I'd love to see your opinion

[@gotogrado8075]

Nice build but one thing, the CHGCOLOR change could affect how EGA games are show (For example, i've tested with the Blues Brothers and the palete was really affected), but is a great build, I love the scalines and the classic screen effect, also the screen size is really robust.

[@arnlehrmann5412]

Exactly! I found that I needed to remove the orange color from the print - otherwise almost all of my games looked ‘sick’ - it’s like the CHGCOLOR changed all white colors in games to orange.. 🤢 Can’t believe nobody else comment on this? 🤔

[@derekswitzer9624]

Wooo dweebDOS vid again! 😎👍👌✅

[@followthemoonrabbit]

Tyrian!!!!

[@robertmiller2434]

Hay man. I don’t know if you have a video about this but exodos is a really cool and easy way to play dos games.

[@f0ssig]

the miyoo comes and goes