what all drivers are pre-installed in DOS laptops

[vinana]

Hi

Do all laptops with DOS come with pre-installed drivers ????.

Will i be able to check graphics and audio etc in new DOS laptop before purchasing it ?????

Thanks
Vineet

 

[BrightCandle]

No and perhaps depending on the software available on it. You could always take a game dos game with you in order to confirm that you can get the soundblaster compatible settings working and that you can select particular graphics.

But dos doesn't really have drivers in the same way as Windows, graphics was based on writing to RAM directly (well unless we are talking glide and openGL). But sound and CDrom are the two drivers you will really care about and they will need to be there, although you may find they can be gotten elsewhere. I used to have a disk containing all sorts of compatible sound and cdrom drivers on it as there were not that many models back 20 years or so ago.

 

[Ketchup]

I'm sorry. What years is this?

 

[VirtualLarry]

DOS programs (mostly) wrote to the hardware directly. The exceptions were: mouse, cd-rom, and soundblaster drivers that were loaded in config.sys. Not to mention, the memory-management drivers.

 

[vinana]

Hi

These days new laptops are not coming along with driver cds/ disks. Thats why i was confirming what all i will have to arrange before buying DOS laptop.

thanks
vineet

 

[Gunbuster]

I think you mean a laptop without an OS included. They do not come with DOS installed.

At the worst you will have to download the Wireless or NIC driver and put it on a USB stick, install that, and then download your other drivers. (After you install Windows, Linux, Whatever)

 

[HeXen]

I'm sorry. What years is this?

Are you from the future? DOS is all the rage these days.

 

[Matt1970]

I have heard you can get laptop/computers with what they refer to as Free Dos or some other flavor of it but it is not going to be out for display at BestBuy or Wal-Mart and for the life of me I have never seen any website offer it so I have no idea how you are going to be able to check the audio and graphics before you buy it.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Hi

These days new laptops are not coming along with driver cds/ disks. Thats why i was confirming what all i will have to arrange before buying DOS laptop.

thanks
vineet

New laptops may not even run dos. What you are asking for is a nearly 20-year-old laptop.

Are you sure that's what you are looking for?