my favourite dos error messages

want to recollect all the error messages I used to get while working on DoS… it was very funny, that every time I get error messages, I had book called MS-DOS internals, which i used to refer … It was hard for me to understand these much as I was only 14 years old … but soon I remembered everything and ways to handle those …

Bad command or file name

General failure reading drive X

Abort, Retry, Fail?

Non-system disk or disk error

Replace and press any key when ready

Write protect error

Access denied 

Incorrect DOS Version

Duplicate file name or file not found

Not ready reading drive X

Abort, Retry, Fail?

Not ready writing device PRN

Abort, Retry, Fail?

my favourite DOS programs

I was thinking what all the Dos programs I have used … it was hard to recollect, since I used all these some 10 years back !

 

 

So here goes the list …..

 

OS

 

MS DoS version 4.01  - 6.22 -> offcourse it has to be

 

 

 

Major softwares

 

Wordstar 4, 5 and 7 -> don’t know why I missed 6

dBase III plus

Lotus 1-2-3 -> not able to recollect the version

 

 

Utilities

 

pkzip and pkunzip -> ohhh those days

PCTools

Norton Disk Doctor

 

 

Programming Languages

 

Turbo Basic

GWBasic

Turbo C

Turbo Pascal

 

Games

 

Prince of Persia -> it took 5 months for me to complete .. no idea about cheat codes

Paratrooper

DAVE

Digger

Cat

Bricks

 

 

ooops … and many I can remember … will try to update …..