I’ve been searching eBay for years, but it seems that most of the Compaq Prolinea 5100, 590, and 575s are not UK-based, and not tested. Where might be a good place to look for vintage computers other than eBay?

nbolton wrote on 2022-01-21, 20:42: It's a Windows game that uses DirectX (pretty sure). Update: I installed DirectX 9.0c (2004) which is the latest available for Windows 98, and this sadly didn't seem to fix the problem. Edit: Here's how Windows looks when it freezes after the game exits. Filename …

I was trying to find the latest version of Notepad++ for Windows 98, and came across a few threads threads claiming (incorrectly) that Notepad++ 5.9.1 would work. Well, it's sort of correct, but only the ANSI version of 5.9.1 works on Windows 98, and that's not available anywhere as far as I can see …

Hey guys, I just released a brand new frontend and game launcher called LaunchBox: Jason, LaunchBox 2.0 for DOS is still great in 2022 :D I've always wanted to write something like this but never got round to it (using .bat files like everyone else). Kudos for actually doing it, and keeping it …

Hello, Edited: So far I've tried running 2 games, Sim Copter and Dungeon Keeper (DirectX 3) and the same happens with both. Sim Copter and Dungeon Keeper both run fine (though a bit slow on my P1), but after I exit the games normally, Windows 98 freezes with icons half rendered (not even Ctrl+Alt+ …

@JazeFox, I just wanted to say thank you so much for Unisound. It's magic and it fixed my Doom II sound issues with the ES1868. Randomly, one day I started only getting midi sound when run from DOS (despite having the correct IRQ set), and only getting FX when run from Windows (but that's to be …

Today Unisound fixed my Doom II sound issues with the ES1868. Excellent tool/driver/magic thing.