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Re:Sam and Max Hit the Road by bennyp101 on Saturday June 22, 2019 @02:39PM (#20251029)
"heard the Mad Scientist in the intro actually talking I completely lost my shit" - HA! Exactly this!

Ah yea, fiddling around with autoexec.bat and config.sys to make funky menus to show the games I had installed (I think, it was a while ago ... also something to do with mscdex .. but that might have been later)

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Re:Sam and Max Hit the Road by dillonmckay on Saturday June 22, 2019 @02:54PM (#20251102)
mscdex, I think was the ‘driver’ for the CD-ROM drive?
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Re:Sam and Max Hit the Road by EvanAnderson on Saturday June 22, 2019 @02:58PM (#20251121)
Sort of. MSCDEX were CD-ROM API extensions for MS-DOS. You had a low-level driver that talked to your optical drive, and MSCDEX talked to that.
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Re:Sam and Max Hit the Road by dillonmckay on Saturday June 22, 2019 @04:37PM (#20251600)
Would that be considered a TSR?
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Re:Sam and Max Hit the Road by EvanAnderson on Saturday June 22, 2019 @09:04PM (#20252643)
Yep-- a classic example of one.
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