DosTips.com

Hi. I am new to this site. I am a programmer who has been messing with this stuff since my first computer when I was 'but a youth', a Timex Sinclair with a Z80 chip. lol. I now have a wonderful laptop with a nice quad core i7 chip, Win 8.1, 1TB of HD space, 12 GB RAM, etc. And I have installed VirtualBox and muddled my way through installing DOS 6.22. I managed to get my mouse working. I got 4DOS installed and actually got DESQview working as well. I also found an old copy of Turbo C 2.01 and then Borland C++ 3.1 (much better ). Anyhow, it has been fun revisiting the old software and honing my C/C++ skills.

Is this site only for batch programming? Or is this topic ok here? I do have a lot of questions about improving my DOS installation in the VM including folder sharing with the host system, network connectivity, etc. I have installed openSUSE Linux and Ubuntu Linux as well and these OS's work very well in VB. But DOS seems to be running in never-never land and things like accessing host NTFS file systems, accessing network resources, etc. seem to be void from its being. lol.

Anyhow, anyone else do this?

DosTips is more focused on batch files and scripting.

Maybe some people here can help with MSDOS scripting, but networking/dragging MSDOS kicking-and-screaming into the present age is not really the aim of the site.

I do have MSDOS V6.22 in a Virtualbox VM but I'm not crazy enough to want to use it full time.

Hi, I have DOS 6.22 running on an i386 and have access and can mount shared folders on the host.