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From: knudsen@cbnewsd.att.com (michael.j.knudsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: 4DOS vs MSDOS 5.0; Digital by Design
Summary: easy to find 4DOS
Message-ID: <1991May24.164356.1892@cbnewsd.att.com>
Date: 24 May 91 16:43:56 GMT
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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