Poll: Which DOS do you prefer?

[+davidcalgary29]

Does MyDOS fit your needs, or are you one of the few aficionados of DOS 3.0? Poll results to be published in the SCAT newsletter.

[oesii]

I still use the same DOS 2.5 that I used when I was a kid, besides hardware tinkering I still use the 8bits for gaming 99% of the time and the only thing I usually need to do in DOS is create a save disk. I have all the other DOS's handy but with a sio2pc setup with a PC hard drive mirror I hardly ever use any DOS functions. Sad but true

 

I do remember how weird 3.0 felt back in the day after using 2.5 for a few years, I'm still not over it

[geosteve]

If you use the Atari XF551 drive then DOS XE is a must! its the only one that get the full 360K out of a disk, it can read from v2 disks, and the sub-directory feature helps keep your files organized. If you have 128K+ RAM it keeps its key features memory resident so you dont have to wait for loading each time.

[geosteve]

The first DOS I used was Atari DOS 3 when the 1050 first came out, which I made a ciouple dozen disks with, then got a copy of the old 20S and even at single density I preferred it to 3. The menu structure on 3 was horrible, you had to load all these separate parts for different tasks and reload the one you just left. What a blessing when 2.5 came out and what a headache it was to convert all those 3 disks I had by then -- lots!!

[+davidcalgary29]

I actually use my modded 3.5" XF551s most of the time, and find that MyDOS is the only OS that really lets me max out my disk space.

[miker]

Now i use DOS II/+ v.6.4 by S. Dorndorf - it's good for me and works well with QMEG.

 

Ofcoz Sparta(X) & MyDos are planned (sio2ide installation), but... hmm, maybe soon?!?

[Callipygous]

I prefer DOS Equis.

 

 

 

(well it is Friday after all)

[Goochman]

Anyone that votes for DOS 3 must be an ole MSDOS or C64 user

[walter_J64bit]

If you use the Atari XF551 drive then DOS XE is a must! its the only one that get the full 360K out of a disk, it can read from v2 disks, and the sub-directory feature helps keep your files organized.    If you have 128K+ RAM it keeps its key features memory resident so you dont have to wait for loading each time.

 

Super DOS 5.0 let's you use Atari XF551 360K of disk and if you have 256k of RAM you can have a HUGH RAMDISK! I would be lots without it!

[daclmi]

You guys forgot to list BeweDOS as a choice so I had to select "other!"

[Heaven/TQA]

dos 2.5 - the one and only

[Nukey Shay]

Dos 2.5...because I'm not nearly "l337" enough to handle something newer. It does the job...accesses most everything...I know how to run it...and I know how to patch into it. To me, that counts.

 

Now get your poll outta my face.

[+CharlieChaplin]

Well,

you also forgot the german DOS versions:

- Bibo-DOS (by Compyshop, max. DSDD / 360k; supports 320k memory);

- Turbo-DOS (by Reitershan, max. DSDD / 360k; supports 320k memory);

- X-DOS (updated version of DOS II+D by Stefan Dorndorf, max. DSDD / 360k; supports up to 1 MB; now DOS 2.5 ED or MyDOS ED comp.);

- DOS-XF (pre-version of Turbo-DOS, DSDD and 320k memory);

and a few others. Thus I selected "other", since I use Turbo-DOs most often... greetings, Andreas.

[Heaven/TQA]

and one of the best BEWEDOS which is spartados compatible... and harddisc compatible...

[TXG/MNX]

Hi,

 

I prefer SpartaDOS (X) and BEWEDOS but BEWEDOS only for software that uses RAM under the OS.

 

DOS 2.x, BIBODOS, TURBODOS and MYDOS only are used when software needs it.

 

I like it that Atari dos have a DOS that can be loaded, makes it more flexible.

 

I only like to have a DOS like SpartaDOS X but then with support of more then 1Mb RAM and bigger partitions then 16Mb and support for other file systems like FAT and others :-)

 

TXG/MNX

[Captain Harlock]

I prefer BiboDOS as it supports the full 2-side 360K disk capacity on my XF551.

[AtariDude]

I have only worked with DOS 3, 2 and 2.5 with 2.5 being my favorite. I am sure that the other versions were quite good but I use a computer to run applications and not to meet the computers needs so if DOS 2.5 did what I wanted to, I did not see a reason to go out and get another DOS back in the day.

[Shannon]

Dos 1.0!!! Lol...

 

Anyone every actually try 1.0? I remember messing with it once.

 

On a serious note I mostly used MyDos or SpartaDos, mostly cause I had a chipped 1050 drive and wanted the speed.