Re: Anyone still use ball mice?
Posted on 2018-07-31, 13:13
if i have complain about optical mice, is they sometimes hard to use on shinny/reflective surface. I need use a 'mouse pad' for that any random sheet of paper would do.
Re: Weird keyboard behavior in WinXP (SP3)
Posted on 2018-07-31, 12:52
Is there more than one devices listed in Keyboard & Human Machine Interface section in WinXp device manager? (you may want to check the "Show Hidden Device" in View menu)
Re: Anyone still use ball mice?
Posted on 2018-07-23, 18:18
While i didn't miss the ball mice, but when confronted with touchpad I do miss the track-ball. I would prefer that over Synaptics touchpad "gesture" anytime.
Re: Did AC adapters / Power supply change a lot in the last 20 years?
Posted on 2018-06-27, 18:58
Also connector changes, nowdays its mini USB, which quite hassle as need to obtain converter if i want to use it to power older electronic appliance.
Re: A discussion on typing with modern and retro keyboards and the absence of historical keys on laptops
Posted on 2018-06-22, 20:44
Yes it is another example of newer design (which sometimes marketed as 'progression/progressive') does not equal better design. I believe the regression began when laptop maker didn't want to includes the numpad for their keyboard layout, and thus selling us the numpad separately. There are valid …
Re: Microsoft Global IME 5.02 for Japanese - with Language Pack?
Posted on 2018-06-04, 14:49
as it'll be much safer. Indeed. Some program may want to access (read/write/create) filename with Far East characters, depending on your current character-sets locale setting, the attempt may be result in failure. Other os quirkness that i found was its String handling API, the result may be …
Re: 2GB RAM - go X86 or x64?
Posted on 2018-05-10, 01:51
36-bits PAE, is there any Graphic Cards+Drivers that utilizes it? I'm under impression that graphic cards with 4GB+ Vram requires the x64 OS (can't be used on x86 PAE-capable OS).
Re: John cena is DUKE NUKEM!
Posted on 2018-04-04, 12:36
gdjacobs wrote: There's only one John who can be Duke, and it's spelled Jon. Yeah, Cena need to be able to do the Duke Voice impression better than LGR.
Re: What are your plans for Valentine's Day/Single Awareness Day?
Posted on 2018-02-16, 03:00
This year valentine day actually quite festive here, because its very close to lunisolar newyear. Western day + far-east celebration day.
Re: Looking for Windows XP BEEP.SYS
Posted on 2018-01-29, 12:38
BEEP.SYS should be in the i386 directory of WinXP installation cd-rom, in form of compressed BEEP.SY_ file. Can be decompresed using EXPAND.EXE that resides in the very same directory.
Re: Why is MS-DOS 4.0 disliked compared to 3.0 and 5.0 and onward?
Posted on 2018-01-28, 05:37
i remember trying to use DOS 4.0 but i was quickly found that some of existing programs that i have, complained about incorrect dos version, i believe Microsoft finally remedied that with MS-DOS 5's 'setver'.
Re: The FrankenTandy 1000 SL: fastest XT in the world?
Posted on 2018-01-23, 05:48
would it provide slightly better playability for Golden Axe for PC? Play as the old guy with axe, collect a magic jars, then... activates ..the magic attack.
Re: MELTDOWN and SPECTRE vulnerabilities and older hardware?
Posted on 2018-01-18, 23:02
But is this whole spectre & meltdown vulnerability really harmfull for averages PC/tablets/smartphones users tho?
Re: MELTDOWN and SPECTRE vulnerabilities and older hardware?
Posted on 2018-01-12, 00:59
Looks like Meltdown and Spectre already run on old hardware :dead: Interestingly in the Meltdown game, theres: the player must win in order to get a password. Once all six passwords have been retrieved the eighth computer allows the player access to an end-of-level game which retreving passwords, …
Re: Myth II 1.8.0 Public Beta Released
Posted on 2018-01-06, 20:40
Now thats quite lengthy duration for a 'beta' phase. Most other publishers/developers would simply roll-out the new incremental versions and deal with it, no beta more than once.
Re: MELTDOWN and SPECTRE vulnerabilities and older hardware?
Posted on 2018-01-05, 23:03
Pentium Pro was rumored using stolen tech particulary related to out-of-order execution from Cyrix. Cyrix however has been 'subtly' casted as the bad guy/bad tech in few fictional works, i wonder if they knew something.
Re: Intel CPU design flaw - Kernel-memory-leaking
Posted on 2018-01-05, 22:17
i wonder if the old Cyrix CPU also affected by this? after all they're the one which uses OoOE before intel also decided to adopt that approach.
Re: Which programming language?
Posted on 2017-12-27, 21:23
It had a very efficient system for compiling and linking directly from the editor. This made the turnaround from editing, compiling, running in debugger much faster. These days we are accustomed to just being able to press the 'run in debugger'-button, and expect our program to start in a few …
Re: OPL2LPT
Posted on 2017-12-22, 11:05
is Miles Sound System adlib drivers patchable?
Re: Split Screen and co-op Games
Posted on 2017-12-13, 12:24
i remember having fun playing multiplayer Bomberman (clone?) for PC, better played with multiple gamepads. The game features more modern power-ups such as kick & power gloves.
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