DOS/MS-DOS Software - Page 1
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author: Ben sage
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: January 15, 2020, 03:05:06 am
content: Hi guys I was wondering if any one knows of some DOS or MS-DOS circuit simulators i was wondering what the used to use And what are some good word processorsThanks

author: tanveerriaz
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: January 15, 2020, 04:00:59 am
content: http://www.lanet.lv/simtel.net/msdos/electrcl.html

author: ebclr
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 15, 2020, 04:09:28 am
content: Near all links are broken

author: T3sl4co1l
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 15, 2020, 05:12:52 am
content: Hmm, when did Protel integrate SPICE?Don't remember when Electronics Workbench came on the scene, if they did a DOS version or started in Windows.Certainly you can either find or compile Berkeley SPICE (3f5), uh with a DOS extender if necessary, and run it from the command line. That may not've been what you intended, but it is a fully functional simulation (such that the functionality is, anyway). And also XSPICE, which is available on a similar basis (introduces event driven digital simulation).Word processors, wasn't WordPerfect the hot shit back then? And all the other office tools grew up back in the day, Lotus 1-2-3, etc... Many of which you'll find on WinWorld e.g.https://winworldpc.com/library/applications/platform-dos?page=1Tim

author: granzeier
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: January 15, 2020, 11:19:17 am
content: Quote from: ebclr on January 15, 2020, 04:09:28 amYeah, that seems to be a pretty bad repository of the Walnut Creek SimTel collection. I don't know why people waste their server space with bad copies of something like this.Fortunately, that Walnut Creek CD (along with the CP/M, and other CDs) are readily available.I just downloaded the ISO of the Walnut Creek MS-DOS CD from Archive.Org (https://archive.org/details/cdrom-simteloctober1993.) The speed wasn't great (about 3 MBPS for the direct download and hovering between 4 and 5 MBPS for the torrent,) but it's under 700MB, so only a few minutes.I was able to mount the ISO, and open the "msdos" folder without any troubles - I specifically checked the "electrcl" folder. Every .ZIP file that I tried opened right away, and every file that I tried, opened correctly (about a dozen or so,) so it looks like Archive.Org's copy is good.

author: nigelwright7557
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 15, 2020, 01:58:13 pm
content: Quote from: Ben sage on January 15, 2020, 03:05:06 amYou can still run DOS programs under Windows 32 bit.I wrote a PC 8086 cross Assembler and wrote my own programs from that.

author: granzeier
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: January 15, 2020, 02:01:20 pm
content: Quote from: T3sl4co1l on January 15, 2020, 05:12:52 amIt appears that they did:https://vetusware.com/download/Electronic%20Workbench%202.0a/?id=3940Quote from: T3sl4co1l on January 15, 2020, 05:12:52 amI never liked WordPerfect - all that garbage in the code window giving only half a screen, and it never seemed mnemonic to me. My preferred "word processor" (actually text editor) was PC-Write. I used that for almost all of my work, including several years as a programmer, and several resumes. I really liked the split-screen (windowing) option, which allowed me to see one part of a file while working in another part (or another file completely.) Unfortunately, I have gotten too used to the CUI [Common User Interface - ctrl-C for copy, ctrl-V for paste, etc] like Win/Lin/Mac uses, and have not reconfigured PCW to use that yet.WinWorld only has version 2.4 and 2.7, but there are several newer versions in that SimTel collection. If you need newer, I have version 4.15 (five .ZIP files totalling 1.7MB,) which I can mail to you.My favorite MS-DOS word processor (WYSIWYG) was MS Word 5.5 (https://winworldpc.com/product/microsoft-word/5x-dos) - it had WYSIWYG plus most of the GUI stuff (pull-down menus and CUI.)

author: Tony_G
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 16, 2020, 07:11:41 pm
content: Quote from: granzeier on January 15, 2020, 02:01:20 pmAs a completely aside/thread hijack, back when I first started at MS in 1990 I used MS-Word as my email editor under OS/2 and it was outstanding (Please don't read this as an opportunity to start a Windows vs OS/2 war, I had enough of that back then - I remember asking Jeff Raikes about when WinWord would go multi-threaded and then being abused as the OS/2 PM - Sure I worked with OS/2 and OEMs on binary adaption but I wasn't a partisan). I'm pretty sure it was a real OS/2 app and not running in the, what we referred to at the time, as the DOS penalty box - I can't remember if it was ever released.This was back in the day when MS ran a XENIX mail system and used X.25 (?? memory, long time ago, etc) links between the locations. This skit on a Seattle TV show actually shut down email across the entirety of Microsoft worldwide as someone captured it and sent it out as an attachment:Good times...TonyG