Anyone ever crash DOS?

[HappyCracker]

I think I crashed DOS. In Windows 95, on my friend's Pentium 166, I highlighted everything in the Windows directory and hit enter. It held on for awhile, we closed a few windows to make room for the new ones, then all of a sudden the screen started flickering. It went blank, then DOS popped up, or something and said Fatal Parity Error on PCI Bus. Now his computer takes a couple of minutes to load Internet Explorer and even longer for everything else. Just my funny story.

 

[iamwiz82]

that is crashing win95, not dos. Truely crashing DOS would involve booting directly into DOS.

 

[HappyCracker]

but since it went back to DOS, and then wouldn't do anything, wait, i'm lost.

 

[Yo Ma Ma]

<< I highlighted everything in the Windows directory and hit enter. >>

To do what, delete?

 

[iamwiz82]

OK, from what you said, you were in win95 and opened up every program in the windows dir. and it crashed, correct?

 

[Windogg]

Unless you exited W95 or booted directly into DOS, you have not truly crashed DOS.

 

[Elledan]

Yes, I've crashed DOS many times, mostly while playing games, like Retaliator (anyone still has that game?) and Stunts.

*Whipes away a tear*

Ah, those were such good times...

 

[iamwiz82]

stunts was fun. I have only crashed DOS once, with a C comnpiler. The thing started spitting out copyright dates of MS DOS over and over again.

 

[HappyCracker]

Naw, we were just trying to see what his computer could do. It was pretty funny seeing a roomfull of people staring at a monitor dying laughing as the computer winced in pain. Maybe a better title would be &quot;Has anyone ever killed a computer?&quot; What is a fatal parity error anyway?

 

[iamwiz82]

generally, that means whatever was in the PCI slot fialed while it was running.

 

[yakko]

No but I smacked it around a few times.

 

[kru]

retaliator was a bloody awesome game.

 

[ApacheXMD]

Retaliator as in that flight sim? F29 or something?

-patchy

 

Sure a long long time ago, far far away

 

[xodarap]

But everyone on this forums killed a computer at least once... All though that way was pretty funny. Crashing DOS in the truest sence of the word is tuff, ive never done it. Crashing the new DOS imulator that comes with win 98 and 2000 or the DOS prompt in win 95 requires breathing on it.

 

[Kp99]

Damn, I dont think Ive ever done that.

 

[RGN]

Stunts was awesome. I seemed to have lost my disk tho.

 

[cipher00]

Sure. DOS locked up like an overzealous security guard. Could usually do it by futzing with extended/expanded ram (truly hideous).

 

[miniMUNCH]

Well, you make an ASM or C program that locks up the CPU.

I think it's something like:

ASM()
{
HLT
}

I don't remember anymore:disgust:. But it will lock your system up good...CPU stops cold until reset.

 

[Zenmervolt]

Until I started using Win 2K I was sure that DOS was the only remotely stable OS that would ever come from MS. Now that I think about it though, I'm pretty sure that the only reason DOS was hard(er) to crash was because it was harder to mess with the default settings. In Windows there's so much stuff you can mess with that it's relatively easy to screw something up. Since other people have mentioned it already, Stunts was the greatest. I probably still have to box somewhere (I have the disks and manual in my desk drawer), anyone else remember the review quoted on the back of the box? Something about &quot;stunning polygonal graphics&quot;, the off disk copy protection was pretty interesting too.

Zenmervolt

 

[Plantanthera]

Yes I ave crashed DOS with games and hacking drivers &amp; programs.

 

[Plantanthera]

&quot;I was sure that DOS was the only remotely stable OS that would ever come from MS.&quot;

Back in the 80s I crashes DOS at least once a day

DOS is not that stable. Due a ralatively small foot print that don't have many tools &amp; funtions as Windows it seem to be much more stable. As time gone by DOS 5~6 had most of the bugs work out and programers figured out ways to work around the known bugs...the progs seem to be much more stable.

DOS 2~4 was a bitch to work with. And if my mem serve me well, then DOS run just below 400k and is only a 16bit OS. While others superior Oses such as QNX (16bit OS/16k, 32bit support at 64k), and Amiga DOS wich suported 32bit out of the box at 128k. And don't get me started with Winblow 2.0 compare to god like Amiga DOS 1~2.

MS sucks!

 

[WrathofMod]

Crashing DOS is evil

 

[nullshark]

<Anyone ever crash DOS?>

No, but I jumped it over 20 cars and sort of smashed up the front a bit when I overshot the landing ramp. Still ran fine, though.

 

[spidey07]

long live amiga!

too bad MS took over.