Gregory's Server@dosnostalgic @vinesnfluff when the black screen told you in orange letters that it was safe to shut the computer off, you literally had a shell, you just had to run the commands to clear the screen. Not saying win95 was just a fancy gui for dos, nor do I remember how functional that shell was given that I was in primary school when I messed around with it, but it was at the very least somewhat functional.
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  @dosnostalgic @vinesnfluff @kly It's been years, but IIRC, if you boot to MS-DOS mode, run  @dosnostalgic @kly Well paint me purple and call me "Twilight", it actually works. The process goes: @dosnostalgic @kly PS this was a clean install. Or, cleanish. I did install the drivers needed to get sound/graphics properly out of 86box, cuz if I was setting this up, I might as well have it ready to screw around with some gaems. @dosnostalgic @kly Bonus: If you type 'win' instead of 'cls' it goes back to windows. @kly @vinesnfluff That only happened when you had a shitty DOS driver sitting in memory refusing to shut down. That command prompt was still very much Windows. If you didn't, there's nothing you could do on that screen besides shut your machine off. |
@kly @dosnostalgic aaaand now you got me wanting to set up win9x on 86box just to try that