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Oh wow! I'm a lifelong fan of Colossal Cave Adventure! I'm glad to see that someone made a version for DOS, this is so nifty!

I didn't think of that, but it makes sense! At first I thought the high view count was people learning to program for the first time; while it is true that you probably can't get a job writing Batch, I always thought of it as the BASIC of Windows; a good starting point for programmers because it's b...

This seems like a really interesting idea, but I wouldn't know how to do it. How would the script make a notification? I know how to make scripts that display text after a certain amount of time passes, using timeout commands between echo commands, but wouldn't that require the command line window t...

This is so cool! I remember Edit from Windows XP in 2008 when I was first learning DOS Batch, and even in 2008 I was surprised that it was there! Edit, a.k.a. MS-DOS Editor, which I found references to in a 1993 MS-DOS 6.2 manual, I couldn't believe that was on there, given that Windows XP had thing...

These are nice! I wonder if there's a website that hosts Batch games from across the web, in the same way there is a website devoted to general text games, and a website devoted to audio games. At first, I thought DosTips itself was this because of the batch files link on the home page, but it's pre...

I'm not sure how different ChatGPT and Google Gemini are, I prefer Gemini mostly for its user interface, but I tried using Gemini to generate a prototype for a textbook on Batch, modeled after well-known Creative Commons-licensed programming books including a famous JavaScript book, and I finally sa...

These sound great! Nothing against PowerShell, I might even learn PowerShell one day, but I'm sticking to standard Batch for now, but I'm sure some of these games will help. I actually heard about the Snake one on some YouTube post, maybe it was a game demo with a link to this forum, and I think Sna...

Hello, Nifty here! Been reading DosTips tutorials for a few years now, and DOS Batch was literally the first programming language I ever heard anyone talk about, when I was six or seven years old, though life happened to take an interesting turn several years later and it ended up not being my first...