Anyone fav DOS utilities you still live for?

hamster

With Windows/Linux/Mac OSs all going strong these days... ole DOS is being squeezed out (quite rightly!) but does anyone still hark for some utilities that haven't quite made it yet in the Windows world?

ie, I use a time utility myself called "Geoclock" (google this!) and this cool tool shows you where/when the sunsets/rises graphically and the changes through the year. There doesn't seem to be a half decent windows/linux version of this? Anyone know?

Another example is VistaPro3... This was class! I still miss this... Bryce isn't quite the same... but still.

What programs would you still use from time to time ? excluding things like PKZIPs etc.

Capt'n Midnight

PKzip needs a license - use UNZIP / UNZIP32 instead..

In windows 2000 / windows XP - create a shortcut to CMD - this gives you the dos prompt

Mirror from DOS 5 allows you to make a backup of your partition table. Xcopy is essential if you want to copy files - though it's /D option seems broken in XP

hamster

<B> Mirror from DOS 5 allows you to make a backup of your partition table </B>

Lol! Great to see that MS-DOS5 is alive and kicking. Hey you should try out the DosBox tool at http://dosbox.sourceforge.net.

Tivoli

ranish partition manager

allows you to partition/format a drive,loads of filesystem types, and got a very neat way of chosing a partition when booting

davil

Ye old qbasic!!!!!

The fun I had [too lazy to learn C or anything else for that matter]

Geoclock is class. CTHUGHA was class. FRACTINT was great when you had never seen proper SVGA before, as was GWS. WOW 800x600 svga!!!!!!!!! anyway, I wish I was back in me DOS days, hex editing SIMCITY (didn't have a clue what I was doing) and making it look weird. Can't remember the other stuff. Used to have a program with a calculator and loads of other utilities that stayed in memory until you hit alt+shift or something - anyone remember that util???

Capt'n Midnight

Originally posted by davil
Y Used to have a program with a calculator and loads of other utilities that stayed in memory until you hit alt+shift or something - anyone remember that util???

Sidekick - it could copy stuff out of the screen buffer when wordstar crashed - it could also paste in to the keyboard buffer so you could have "macros" for various programs

davil

Dat's de one. Good memory, lad.

Slydice

must resist urge to post........

ah F*sk it....


CIVILISATION 1!!!!! UHUH, OH YEA!

ToxicPaddy

Now do you mean utilities that are part of DOS itself or DOS
based utilities...

I use GDISK a lot, or as we findly refer to it here, GEEDISK..

Tis a saviour when recreating partitions that FDISK and the such
cant pick up.. one simple command and they are allllllll gone..

Such a lovely likkle utility

Capt'n Midnight

RE:
Tis a saviour when recreating partitions that FDISK and the such
cant pick up.. one simple command and they are allllllll gone..

Originally posted by Capt'n Midnight
Mirror from DOS 5 allows you to make a backup of your partition table.

Tazzle

Hmm, remember with qbasic you could play that ape and banana game as well as snake. God, I'd love to have that back again

Tivoli

oh my god yeah the gorilla thing was brilliant,it was installed on the pc's in the cad labs in dundalk rtc.i am not sure why the bananas exploded on impact, its very like pocket tanks, except the original

deckie27

taz
those games are the reason I never learnt qbasic