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Re: Escargot: MSN Messenger alternative server.

Posted on 2019-10-30, 20:37

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

While I was listening to my playlist at work (don't worry, I am working as well) and I was waiting for some long code to compile and I was also thinking... One of the most used MSN features I loved and I miss a lot currently is the ability to show on my MSN status what (music) I am listening to... I …

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2019-10-30, 01:08

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

oeuvre wrote: https://i.imgur.com/clo3o6Yl.jpg […] Show full quote dat DoTT Day of tentacle? Cool

Re: WebOne - proxy for old browsers to make them Web 2.0-capable

Posted on 2019-10-29, 19:40

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

This is one hell of an amazing project! Very impressive work - I expect to try it out next weekend when I get hold of my MacBook and Windows 10 VM. A w2k vm would be more appropriate. Eeeehhh... I meant to be using the W10 to run his proxy ( "The proxy should be ran on a modern PC with .NET …

Re: WebOne - proxy for old browsers to make them Web 2.0-capable

Posted on 2019-10-29, 18:56

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

This is one hell of an amazing project! Very impressive work - I expect to try it out next weekend when I get hold of my MacBook and Windows 10 VM.

Re: Most user friendly Programming Language, Tools and IDE for developing software for DOS in 2019?

Posted on 2019-10-28, 18:49

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I can only speak for my experience as a kid. I am sure others will share a very different experience than mine that will probably help you more. Today, I am a web developer. But to be honest, I HATE the back-end programming I have to do at work, I am now more focused on the front-end stuff instead …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2019-10-27, 15:08

in Milliways

in Milliways

MicroProse Grand Prix 2... just checking if I can update the graphics with better resolution textures

Re: DOSBox-X branch

Posted on 2019-10-26, 23:34

in DOSBox Patches

in DOSBox Patches

Does anyone know why, when I boot from a disk image, dosbox shows me a boot menu like: "Booting from drive C..." "F1 . . . Dos" "F5 . . . disk 2" "Default: F1" Then after a while it boots my image. F5 does nothing. I would like to know why it happens and if there is a way to remove so i can boot …

Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2019-10-26, 15:28

in Milliways

in Milliways

Actually struggling to get GP2 to run at full speed and good graphics on DOSBox. I am doing everything I can to manage that, but so far it’s an epic fail. I can’t believe a 25 year old game struggles so much to run SVGA graphics at 25 fps EDIT: Got it to work. I am using DOSBox-X, so basically set …

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2019-10-25, 16:01

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Let's see - I got my Thinkpad X31 (recently acquired on eBay) cleaned up and ready for some oldschool XP goodness. (In case you are wondering about the specs: Pentium M Banias 1.4Ghz, 2GB RAM, 16MB Radeon M6, 12" XGA screen, AD1981 AC97 sound chip, 128GB mSATA-to-IDE SSD, native USB2, and Windows …

Re: What to do when Windows 7 support ends in a few weeks time?

Posted on 2019-10-25, 15:57

in Milliways

in Milliways

Yeah, but for some reason my internet provider does not let me try it. It's possible your internet provider keeps you behind its own NAT (some do that), so you have no personal external IP, and so port forwarding is useless unless they set it up for you on their router as well. This is exactly the …

Re: What to do when Windows 7 support ends in a few weeks time?

Posted on 2019-10-24, 20:46

in Milliways

in Milliways

. I still hold the same opinion as you there. Now I connect through a router at home with some more devices as well, but I cannot remote to my home PC from my office (or vice versa) anymore either. I wish I could. Broadband ruined my fun times. I would have thought that would be a relatively …

Re: What to do when Windows 7 support ends in a few weeks time?

Posted on 2019-10-24, 20:19

in Milliways

in Milliways

Remember the days you used dial up networking on Windows 95 to connect to the internet? :dead: I sure do! It took a little while after the adoption of broadband before I was willing to give up the ability to remote in to my home PC and run an app that gave me some other kind of access (like FTP) …

Re: What to do when Windows 7 support ends in a few weeks time?

Posted on 2019-10-24, 19:28

in Milliways

in Milliways

I think it's time we should write a topic to tell people about the security for web browsing with retroOSes, huh? I mean, leave some instructions there, like the topic that was created years ago for installing Windows on DOSBox. I think it was Dominus or DOSFreak who created it? Just an idea.

Re: YouTube translator for retro systems

Posted on 2019-10-24, 18:20

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

That's one amazing piece of art! Good work!

Re: Retro machines usefulness/connectivity thread

Posted on 2019-10-24, 10:49

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Yup, that’s what I meant. Gotta be selective with what you click on the web... I believe it happened to me once years ago with a Windows 10 machine. I had one of these malwares where my files got encrypted and a txt file was left asking for bitcoins to restore them. In the end I just laughed at …

Re: Retro machines usefulness/connectivity thread

Posted on 2019-10-24, 06:01

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Yup, that’s what I meant. Gotta be selective with what you click on the web... I believe it happened to me once years ago with a Windows 10 machine. I had one of these malwares where my files got encrypted and a txt file was left asking for bitcoins to restore them. In the end I just laughed at …

Re: Retro machines usefulness/connectivity thread

Posted on 2019-10-24, 01:44

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I don't know if you're being facetious or not, but this has been my real experience over many years. Either I am ridiculously, exceptionally lucky, or I'm right. Either way I don't care regardless, because I never have anything important on my old PCs anyway. All my other computers run Linux so …

Re: What to do when Windows 7 support ends in a few weeks time?

Posted on 2019-10-24, 01:36

in Milliways

in Milliways

I looked at the skeleton layout of a few web pages with developer tools enabled and it made me light-headed. DIVs within DIVs for days. Don’t bother looking at the code of a Moodle school portal then. You’re head will literally explode - that’s what I have to deal with at work. I am very tired of …

Re: What to do when Windows 7 support ends in a few weeks time?

Posted on 2019-10-24, 01:26

in Milliways

in Milliways

Windows 10 Pro is pretty decent. There are a few questionable decisions (like app suggestions for Candy Crush etc.) but they're mostly optical annoyances or tiny background problems that can be fixed quickly. What I always do when I install Windows 10 is use Winaero Tweaker afterwards and tick all …

Re: What to do when Windows 7 support ends in a few weeks time?

Posted on 2019-10-24, 01:22

in Milliways

in Milliways

keropi wrote: Can one use a win7pro key to activate 10pro after a fresh install? I believe you can. I used mine for a fresh VM install

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