> I as well. I resisted for the longest time migrating to the ‘doze environment since it was so bloated and sluggish.
No reason you can't have the best of both worlds at once. Just make an MS-DOS VM (using the DOS that came with Win98), like this:
And no, that's not photoshopped. It's a screensnap from my Mac running VMware Fusion a few minutes ago, with a DOS window over a Win10 window.
I gave it 100MB of hard disk, same as the biggest disk I ever had with DOS, back in 1988 on a Toshiba T-100 portable.
The only thing that's really odd is trying to allocate ONLY a couple of MB of RAM to the VM. I settled on 16MB, since my Toshiba had 8MB and I occasionally found that limiting.
Thanks, but no.
i shall leave the electronic abacus’ future to you youngsters.
That looks interesting, however I have not yet had the opportunity to learn how exactly to set up a VM to run the things I most wish to. Not exactly the best HowTo documentation available for VM setups even to this day. :(
One of these days I plan on getting up to speed in the VM department since it looks so interesting, but for now I am relegated to switching between machines for the various flavours of Operating Systems I need to perform various tasks.
I look forward to running many older programs again once I have the capability, and I can think of a few programs used (and written, back on floppy disk) that I would love to play with once again.
Cheers!