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Offline tone007

Re: What is the name of the OS?
« on: April 05, 2010, 01:46:42 AM »
I like to just think of it as "The Amiga Experience."

*lights incense*
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Offline tone007

Re: What is the name of the OS?
« Reply #1 on: April 05, 2010, 02:08:24 AM »
You don't need IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS, or COMMAND.COM, just a boot sector that loads *something.*
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Offline tone007

Re: What is the name of the OS?
« Reply #2 on: April 05, 2010, 10:10:14 PM »
Quote from: Amiga_Nut;551563
On a floppy disk? I think you need to have those 3 files written to get a bootable floppy using the format /s command IIRC.

Can't think of any games that circumvented this as games run in dos and therefore a dos bootdisk requires those 3 files to get going and do 'something' I  am guessing.


To get an MS-DOS bootdisk, yes, it needs those files.  Bootable games that ran on DOS would've had them, but there are things besides games that boot from floppy.  Some utilities are written from scratch and don't use those DOS files, and then there are Linux boot floppies which have no use for them as well.
3 Commodore file cabinets, 2 Commodore USB turntables, 1 AmigaWorld beer mug
Alienware M14x i7 laptop running AmigaForever
 

Offline tone007

Re: What is the name of the OS?
« Reply #3 on: April 06, 2010, 02:34:29 AM »
My monitor is my GUI!  My mouse is gooey!
3 Commodore file cabinets, 2 Commodore USB turntables, 1 AmigaWorld beer mug
Alienware M14x i7 laptop running AmigaForever