Author: Pete Galati
Date: 07:34:04 10/29/99
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On October 29, 1999 at 02:40:07, Micheal Cummings wrote: >Boot disk are not the main problem, just one part of what I dislike about DOS >programs. > >My main beef if the mouse control, From Rebel Decade to version 9 & 10, the >mouse control is terrible. Sometimes it takes me three or four click before I >can actually get the stupid thing to work for whatever I am clicking on. > >And its not my computer, Since I fist got Rebel Decade this problem has spanned >over three of the computers I have had that I used these programs on. > >And the thing I hate the most is that when a dos program crashes, unless it was >done through windows, I have to reboot my computer. > >DOS is dead, or at least these days it is under so much windows lipstick that it >might as well be. Apart from Rebel, I do not use DOS programs, Except for the >odd game, but even then they are still crappy. > >As for Fritz, I might get myself one of those colour gameboys that everyone >seems to have, and play this pokemon game that seems to be around everywhere. >And miss getting a chess program this year for Christmas. I love Dos, Dos Chess programs have almost never crashed on me, I find them far more stable than Windows programs. I've never had the mouse trouble you describe and I just use a Microsoft "Home" mouse with the standard MS driver. I've allways thought that Dos is the ideal place for a Chess program to be running because when you're playing Chess you should be as far away from being able to multitask as posible. I'm VERY disapointed that Rebel desided to embrace Windows, this appears to be a marketing desision to me. Pete
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