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Re: Design choices you will never forgive

Posted on 2024-07-17, 21:52

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To me, the way programs were installed in Windows has always been flawed. There should have been a centralized installation manager in charge of it rather than every installer copying stuff into the Windows folder, even asking if dll x or y could be overwritten. Same for the uninstall routine. I …

Re: After installing Windows 3.11 on top of MSDOS622, I'm forced to execute WIN inside C:\WINDOWS folder. Why?

Posted on 2024-07-04, 14:06

If I recall correctly, after the installation is complete, Windows setup asks you if it should perform all the necessary changes to the config.sys and autoexec.bat, or if you prefer to do it yourself. My assumption is that you did not let setup modify those files. Normally the windows directory, C:\ …

Re: What did your home PC space/room look like in the mid 90s?

Posted on 2024-06-26, 19:49

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In the mid 90s I had an Amiga 500. It looked like this. For me, the PC era started in late 1996 with a P133. Didn't really take many pics at the time, so here's what I could find. The PC pic was from the early 2000s, but in the 90s the desk didn't look much different, except the PC was a P133 and …

Re: Jurassic Park (Ocean)

Posted on 2024-05-29, 08:01

Do CD-Audio tracks play on your computers under DOSBox? They do when you imgmount the cue file. For example, this is the line mounting my Warcraft II image (bin/cue): imgmount D "Warcraft II.cue" -t iso -fs iso CD audio works that way.

Re: How important is screen resolution to you?

Posted on 2024-05-25, 07:16

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I remember DVB-T.. I've bought a TV dongle for PC once. Picture quality was horrible, artifacts often were visible. No comparison to DVB-S or DVB-S2. Oh yes, I remember it, too. We had a standalone DVB-T receiver for my mom's TV, which was a 15" CRT. Picture quality was meh at best, though on the …

Re: How important is screen resolution to you?

Posted on 2024-05-24, 13:58

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Hm. There might be bandwidth considerations, too, because of cable and terrestrial broadcast, not sure. For sure it plays a role. For TV content, 1080p needs to be 1080p50, which requires more bandwidth than 720p or 1080i. Plus the majority of DVB receivers might not be compatible with 1080p50. …

Re: Is it possible to copy the Warcraft 2 CD?

Posted on 2024-05-17, 17:15

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Do you have more than one optical drive in your PC? The cd path has to be correct in WAR.INI (e.g. "cdpath=d:\"), not sure what the installer writes in there if you have multiple drives (e.g. only the first drive, or the drive that you installed it from). Other than that, maybe you could try …

Re: Is it possible to copy the Warcraft 2 CD?

Posted on 2024-05-17, 10:28

in DOS
I don't remember having had a problem with Warcraft II, and I'm pretty sure I used ImgBurn (version 2.5.0.0, if that matters) to create the image. It resulted in bin/cue files which I use for DOSBox. No problem with the CD audio tracks, and the image is recognized by my Warcraft II installation in …

Re: nostalgia midlife crisis

Posted on 2024-05-01, 09:40

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I sometimes wonder if it just natural for is to fill nostalgic about past times...even if we "know" they weren't really that great. That depends on each individual's experience. I feel very nostalgic about the 90s and early to mid 2000s because to me they were simply better times, I had on the …

Re: Playing DVDs in Windows 95

Posted on 2024-02-04, 19:59

I just tried PowerDVD V4 in Win95B and it plays DVDs okay. On my PC, it doesn't seem to make use of hardware acceleration in Win95, but I think that's a driver issue. Anyway it's not blocky red and blue. Maybe it's a driver issue in your case. Apart from that, if it worked fine in WinME, but you …

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