knudsen@cbnewsd.att.com (michael.j.knudsen) (05/24/91)
Someone was asking the other day how to get 4DOS. I found it for $2.95 on one of those "Digital By Design" racks full of catchware* that have popped up in drug and hardware stores. I bought it but haven't tried it yet. Wonder how up-to-date it is? Probably have to send in the shareware fee to get the latest. *By "catchware" I mean that a lot of the D-by-D stuff is either shareware that expects you to send in money (OK by me, cheaper than downloading off a BBS), or more commonly a demo version that's either crippled or has major pieces missing (e.g., ALT). Actually ALT has some useful stuff on the disk. Those D-by-D disks are a mixed bag. One disk has two crappy games (act like they were in BASIC) and one great PacMan game. The language-practice disks are 1981-vintage BASIC, but still worth the $3 apiece. Anyone else have comments on these goodies? -- "What America needs is A Thousand Points When Lit..." knudsen@iceland.att.com
dhf@marie.mitre.org (David H. Friedman) (05/25/91)
. The latest version of 4dos is 3.03, as of recently.