15th March 2006, 1:47 PM
It's DOS? No, it has a million commands you must input before you can start using it like a normal DOS prompt. The very first thing, for example, is to "unlock" it's speed to full cycles. I don't want to bother learning all the commands specific to DOSBox. I simply run a shortcut on my desktop that a frontloader helps me set up. If it really was just a DOS prompt, I wouldn't need to mount drives or adjust a million options specific only to the emulator.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)