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Re: Vista is a POS and MS/NVIDIA can DIAF

Posted on 2008-02-29, 15:40

If you hate Vista and MS so much why isn't your fileserver running a flavour of linux? Methinks the lady doth protest too much. edit: oops, wasn't paying attention to all of the OS mentions and didn't you see this ? but yeah, I'm not going to trash MS because I'm sure there are people there who …

Re: windows to mac

Posted on 2008-02-27, 16:58

actually I don't know about Mac ports, I just assumed they had serial ports because that's about the most generic port there is, and I might have been thinking about the fact that I read once* about an external modem that was used on a PC, a Mac, and a (!) TRS-80 *it was DOS for Dummies, second …

Re: WTB: 5 1/4 PC floppy drive

Posted on 2008-02-27, 15:07

no, it has a larger head with the inductors (or whatever they're called) larger and farther apart; getting just a head would be hard, not only because of age, interest, etc., but because it's the most important part there is a little hole that indicates density on 5¼" floppies, the sensor that …

Re: Definately a noob

Posted on 2008-02-26, 15:11

He means please send any info you think could be important. what you definitely should send: computer you're running it on (or trying to run it on) version of DOSBox you're using (or trying to use) version of Windows you're using (or version of Mac OS or version and distro of Linux) when it crashes/ …

Re: WTB: 5 1/4 PC floppy drive

Posted on 2008-02-26, 14:53

I got few 5.25", but they just don't work anymore. Is it possible to repair them? When floppy drives do not recognize inserted disks anymore, what component needs to get fixed/replaced? I haven't exactly fixed floppy drives before, but I have definitely troubleshooted (troubleshot?) several of them …

Re: WTB: 5 1/4 PC floppy drive

Posted on 2008-02-26, 12:24

I'm glad to hear it and once again good luck. Jorpho wrote: I suppose you keep 8-track cassette players too? 🤣 no, I don't have any 😉 but really, if you had, say, a drawing by done a famous artist before the artist was famous, you would keep it, even if it sucked, right? kind of the same idea

Re: WTB: 5 1/4 PC floppy drive

Posted on 2008-02-25, 21:22

"tossed"? as in "threw away"? please tell me that's not what you meant, because I would keep such a thing my whole life just for the historical value; for other reasons too, but the historical value would be enough, like owning an original Macintosh or something yeah, apparently there are a bunch of …

Re: WTB: 5 1/4 PC floppy drive

Posted on 2008-02-25, 17:11

needle in a haystack: about an hour to 5 hours, with modern technology 5¼" floppy drive: about a day to 10 days, going through every Salvation Army or Goodwill place you can find I had one, in fact I had two, but you're about four years too late. I'm typing this from my Computer Specialist class, …

Re: windows to mac

Posted on 2008-02-24, 01:04

Floppy disk? Is it 1987 again? From the way he talked about it, it sounded like it was older than USB, FireWire, and CD burners, so there would be three options: a floppy disk, a connection through the Internet or a LAN, or a direct cable connection, and for PC and Mac and at that early age, you're …

Re: Your Top 5 all time classic games

Posted on 2008-02-24, 00:55

I've heard of it being part of a series and read their Wikipedia entries carefully, I was wondering how similar (in gameplay, sound, graphics, presentation, plot, etc., but mostly gameplay) they actually were; WP doesn't go into detail (and anyway I'd rather not have it spoiled for me, and now I …

Re: Your Top 5 all time classic games

Posted on 2008-02-22, 15:24

could be that too 😉 but yeah, we don't really care that much how many games you list, as long as the list takes up less than a page anyway, pduke001, did you ever play Illusion of Gaia (which is on my list)? is it as similar to Terranigma as I've heard?

Re: windows to mac

Posted on 2008-02-22, 14:56

OK, it's pretty simple: you get the disk (I'm assuming you're using a floppy disk to transfer this file) formatted (set up in a basic way) such that the PC and the Mac will both be able to use it (I don't know how to do that but I do know it's possible, I think you can just read a Windows format …

Re: Swaping Disks during Installs...

Posted on 2008-02-21, 15:12

I haven't really looked at it before Next time read the postings on this thread before posting some useless reply, so you'd know this is not about mounting one floppy image. I knew that, I was just demonstrating the most basic way I knew to mount a floppy image. We were all newbies once ideas along …

Re: We were all newbies once

Posted on 2008-02-21, 01:33

that too, many people truly are terrified of a whole page of text I finally looked at that wiki, it is pretty complete, new stuff probably should be put in there, provided it stays user-friendly, maybe more user-friendly than it is now

Re: We were all newbies once

Posted on 2008-02-20, 14:53

Sorry, I didn't mean to "pollute" the thread. That should be mentioned somewhere too, don't get off the topic of a forum or a thread. Something that might really help is an explanation. A lot of people refuse to listen to people who tell them what to do (or not to do) without a good reason, e.g. no …

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