Sikor Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 (edited) No ankets here, so, please leave answer. Sugesstions: 1. MyDOS 2. Sparta DOS X 3. X-BIOS 4. DOS 2.64xx (xx means subversion, for example e) 5. DOS 2.5 6. Bibo DOS 7. Other (please, write in comment) I prefer (use) MyDOS. Edited February 24, 2014 by Sikor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thorfdbg Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 No ankets here, so, please leave answer. I prefer (use) MyDOS. I prefer my own. (-: 2.XL on the real hardware, which is a precursor of 2.++. The latter would require me to burn it on ROM, which I don't have the hardware for to do it. Sometimes 2.5 if I really have to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danwinslow Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 I use RealDos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+davidcalgary29 Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 What?! People still use something other than MyDOS? I've used DOS XE on occasion over the past few years. Heck, I even power up DOS 3.0 once in awhile so I can show the kids what it was like in the bad ol' days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marius Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 I use the following DOSses: 1) SpartaDos 3.3a (I love this one, since it has no forced HS SIO loader) 2) XDOS 2.4x (very nice DOS) 3) MyDOS In this order... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashjazzcat Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 SDX 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxl Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 xBios is not DOS. recently I've used TopDos (support 128 files in DD) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feather Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 1. MyDOS 2. SUPERDOS 2.9 (occasionally) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ransom Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 SDX. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bob1200xl Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 DOS 2.0S or DOS 2.0D. It runs on HD on the PBI, single or double density, 127kbs on SIO with a patched OS and fast CPU clock, and, we have commented source listings for both DOS and DUP. I don't have any files larger that 180K, but if I did (?), I would use MyDOS 4.5. Bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 SpartaDos 3.2 and 2.3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
w1k Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 SDX 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CharlieChaplin Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 (edited) Well, I am using the following DOS versions on the real A8: 1) almost always: Turbo-DOS XL/XE V.2.1 (only the normal version by Reitershan without any speeders) 2) very often: DOS 2.5 by Atari (patched version, supports up to 256k Ramdisk) 3) from time to time: XDOS 2.4x, MyDOS 4.5x 4) very rarely: Bewe-DOS 1.3 but only a) when a program requires SDFS or b) to convert files from SDFS into D2FS; SDFS = Sparta DOS File System, D2FS = DOS II File System SuperDOS looks quite nice, but it has a very high memlo and it is getting on my nerves since it always replies with "Type "Y" to lock/unlock/delete/format/write/... " Even when you use "/N" after a wildcard (e.g. D-delete files, *.COM/N), SuperDOS queries for the first file and waits for you to press the Y key (it only queries for the first file and all others are deleted without query then, but this is still annoying). With DOS XE you will see the same behaviour, almost everything you do is responded with "Press START to continue, or press SELECT to abort"... Reminds me of MS-DOS or old Windows versions "Do you want to format drive A:/B:/C:/...?" and then "Warning, formatting drive A:/B:/C:/... will erase all data on it, do you want to continue? Y/N?", followed by "Are you sure ? Y/N?" and I always thought, hey how about some more stupid questions, like "Are you really sure? Y/N?" and "Are you really, really sure ? Y/N ?" and then "How can you be so sure ?" and finally "Give me a percentage of how sure you are wanting to format that disk (0-100) ?" You then type in 99,9% and the program responds with "Formatting aborted, user was not 100% sure." -Andreas Koch. Edited February 24, 2014 by CharlieChaplin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle22 Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 SDX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HiassofT Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 in no particular order: - MyDos when I need support for large files/drives (which is very often ATM) - Turbo Dos (my favourite DOS from the old days, but no large file/drive support) - MyPicoDos of course so long, Hias Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathy Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 Hello guys MyDOS of course! Sincerely Mathy PS before somebody starts asking why the "of course", take a look at this page. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
am1933 Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 DOS 2.5, just for that retro kick! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marius Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 I'm so glad to see that I'm not the only one that is not so into SDX. Perhaps a good motivation to bring some more non-sdx philosophy to the modern Harddisk interfaces? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD6502 Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 I like Mydos, one keypress directory lists! Friendly menu interface! Command line doses are great for power users, but for us casual users they can be intimidating as they sit there staring at you silent and imposing, daring you to type something silly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenjennings Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 Just stinky ole' 2.0S. Or MyDos for those DD disks. Tried DOS XL the other day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drac030 Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 SDX 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 SDX (there are other DOSes?) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bf2k+ Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 SD and SDX 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marius Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 SDX (there are other DOSes?) As long as SDX can not run chaos Music composer i Will not use SDX as my primary dos. And I am also wondering whether SDX will run TurboBasic. Never tested. Had more incompatibilities in the past with SDX. SDX is powerful, but I always have the feeling that it is a huge and powerful thing on it's own. I must say in that light XDOS is more my thing. That's a very light DOS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 Usually SDX from IDE+2, SIDE or U1Meg. Sometimes if dicking around, DOS 2.5. If just playing games then whatever's easiest to get the game going, which in most cases isn't a DOS. Rarely do dev work any more on real hardware, in fact not even on emulation much. Just use editor/PC tools then run on emulation, test on real machine periodically. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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