Aerofly Ms Dos!!!
02-07-2004 | 01:44 PM
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From: Leatherhead, UNITED KINGDOM
Aerofly Ms Dos!!!
What does this mean Ms DOS version i just got this sim (Aerofly R/C Simulator MS DOS version) for £10 off somebody and was wondering what MS DOS means anyone know how is it different and does it £d capable models on it
02-09-2004 | 08:20 AM
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RE: Aerofly Ms Dos!!!
Good grief, seeing someone not know what MS-DOS is, is a bit like someone who doesn't know who Elvis Presley was!. Are these things so soon forgotten? Or am I just getting old? Back, before 1995, when people turned on their computers, after it had started up all you saw was:
A:\ >
The infamous MS-DOS prompt! At this prompt you could type commands like DIR, TYPE, REN, COPY etc. If you wanted to run Windows (Win 3.x in those days) you started it by typing WIN. Once Win95 came out, even though it was a loose fitting "veneer" on top of MS-DOS this was all forgotten though you still got a link to "MS-DOS command" that would start a "DOS box". In more recent Windows there is no underlying MS-DOS but there's a "fake" MS-DOS box available from a link called "Command prompt" though in later versions (2000/XP) this is being increasingly hidden further down the Start menu!
So to run you Aerofly for MS-DOS you need to start command prompt and then type the command you've been given to start aerofly. Because it is an "MS-DOS" program that almost certainly means that the graphics are going to look very 1980's and won't be anything like the advanced graphics we've come to expect from Windows programs these days.
Have fun (it's a bit of nostalgia if nothing else!)
Cliff
A:\ >
The infamous MS-DOS prompt! At this prompt you could type commands like DIR, TYPE, REN, COPY etc. If you wanted to run Windows (Win 3.x in those days) you started it by typing WIN. Once Win95 came out, even though it was a loose fitting "veneer" on top of MS-DOS this was all forgotten though you still got a link to "MS-DOS command" that would start a "DOS box". In more recent Windows there is no underlying MS-DOS but there's a "fake" MS-DOS box available from a link called "Command prompt" though in later versions (2000/XP) this is being increasingly hidden further down the Start menu!
So to run you Aerofly for MS-DOS you need to start command prompt and then type the command you've been given to start aerofly. Because it is an "MS-DOS" program that almost certainly means that the graphics are going to look very 1980's and won't be anything like the advanced graphics we've come to expect from Windows programs these days.
Have fun (it's a bit of nostalgia if nothing else!)
Cliff
02-09-2004 | 08:43 AM
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RE: Aerofly Ms Dos!!!
If you happen to get it working ... which I highly doubt. PLEASE take a screen shot of it.
If you are running Windows XP and try to get it to run in the DOS COMMAND, I say the odds are 1 in 50 that it will work.
You could prolly find an old 386 33 Mhz for another $10 with monitor somewhere like Ebay.
Then you would be computer, monitor and AFP for only $20.
Good luck!
By the way if you need a copy of AFP I can have it shipped to the UK for $34.95 4-10 day air.
www.aeroflypro.com
Thanks!
If you are running Windows XP and try to get it to run in the DOS COMMAND, I say the odds are 1 in 50 that it will work.
You could prolly find an old 386 33 Mhz for another $10 with monitor somewhere like Ebay.
Then you would be computer, monitor and AFP for only $20.
Good luck!
By the way if you need a copy of AFP I can have it shipped to the UK for $34.95 4-10 day air.
www.aeroflypro.com
Thanks!
