Okay, #term39 is giving me some serious #DESQview (with a side order of #TurboVision) vibes and I like it. #msdos #dos #terminal

Okay, #term39 is giving me some serious #DESQview (with a side order of #TurboVision) vibes and I like it. #msdos #dos #terminal

Screenshot of a livestream with my bird VTuber avatar on the left, with a screen capture of DesqView multitasking on the right. The top half of the capture shows a DOS prompt and the bottom half shows the game Skyroads.

Screenshot of a livestream with my bird VTuber avatar on the left, with a screen capture of DesqView multitasking on the right. The top half of the capture shows the “Skyroads” logo overlaid with a DESQView menu for managing windows. The bottom half of the capture has the setup screen for doom.

Screenshot of a livestream with my bird VTuber avatar on the left, with a screen capture of DesqView multitasking on the right. The top half of the capture shows the game Lemmings main menu, while the bottom half shows the game Doom loading with a brown background.

Screenshot of a livestream with my bird VTuber avatar on the left, with a screen capture of DesqView multitasking on the right. The top half of the capture shows a DOS prompt with a virtualized “Big DOS” environment offering nearly 600kb of conventional memory while an instance of Impulse Tracker playing mod music is shown below - with an unusually green palette.

Alright! After quite an ordeal including replacing memory modules in my 486 and eventually building a lab vm, I got to show off true multitasking on top of DOS! This was accomplished using a fairly obscure piece of software called DesqView originating all the […]

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DesqView unfortunately still exhibits some significant memory corruption. I went as far as replacing the RAM in the system with a configuration the motherboard explicitly supports (32MB from 16+16), as well as disabling all CPU caching incase it was a timing […]

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How Windows got to version 3 – an illustrated history With added manga and snark. What's not to like?

I remember back to the early days of #MS-DOS, #DESQview (which was awesome), and #Windows. Trying to get a #TCP/IP stack running on Windows 3.0 was, to put it mildly, a nightmare (made worse by the choice of IP subnet which was a routable address and caused all sorts of problems down the road).