Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2017/01/02/autoexec-bat-the-tee-shirt.html
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Brilliant! Made my day.
Off to order one…
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As a matter of personal organization, I’ve always kept my .bat files in
C:\belfrey
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I’m just happy that there are still people who know what autoexec.bat means.
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I figured 2016 had killed them all!
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Such puns must not be rewarded. Ecrasez l’infame!
OK, yeah, I want one ^^’ .
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Adam is awesome.
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How about Config.sys ?
You are old if you remember:
Autoexec.bat
Config.sys
IRQ’s
DIP switches
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Dude, FreeDOS 1.2 released on Dec 25th; all things DOS haven’t been this happening in ages!
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What about the morass of different memory flavors? HIMEM, conventional memory, extended memory, expanded memory, upper memory area, etc.
One forgets how much of a luxury it is to be able to say “eh, the freaky legacy stuff in the first 16MBs is freaky but ultimately irrelevant; the only thing that matters now is whether my GPU is going to carve a hole in my available physical memory or whether its address space can be remapped to avoid overlapping my RAM; of which I have a copious supply.”
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SYS 64738
(yes, BB, this is a complete sentence if you happen to be a Commodore 64)
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Let me guess… It has a graphical interface now? Seriously, what’s new in the world of DOS?
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Ah. Brings back memories of that special boot floppy that loaded memory managers and rearranged and repositioned things just right so you could play X-Wing. But which didn’t work for Tie Fighter.
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I like this guy’s Shakespeare shirts:
I also like the state capital shirt, for no real reason.
This one is probably my favorite:
Hah. Want. Even though I haven’t touched windows/dos since… 1999?
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Name the platform (and what actions these commands cause):
Call -151
3D0G
POKE 16636,0
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that’s why “the olds” put little stickers on the front of the screen over their webcams, so the bats don’t hit their windows.
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IIRC thats Apple II but cant remember the functions.
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We have a winner.
Call -151
Enter the system monitor, where you can program in assembly.
3D0G
Return to the BASIC prompt, for Integer BASIC/AppleSoft (MicroSoft BASIC!)
POKE 16636,0
Click the speaker once. Put it in a loop to make music.
(looking forward to the corrections from those with even more of these burned into their brains)
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