Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS
Posted on 2020-01-04, 21:58
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2020-01-04, 01:01
Wow! The thing is looking like brand new!
Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2020-01-04, 00:40
I was at work, so my modern activity was to fork a moodle plugin and modify its files to create not only a block plugin to show on sidebar, but also a page with the same information. the client can then choose between the block and page mode, whatever he likes. Took me a few hours but I could've …
Re: games that are better on a Macintosh
Posted on 2020-01-03, 14:15
My favourite game in Windows was SimTower, but I was never given a mac version, not even OSX version. SimTower was the game that led me to find DOSBox for Mac in my first emulation attempts. Real gaming on a Mac? I'd say my memory can see SimCity but I can't remember which version.
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2020-01-03, 13:52
Last night I attempted to do a new VMWare instance with Windows For Workgroups 3.11. This time I was successful (after some lost nights and headaches), the thing is damn unstable, but now works. The trick was to save a snapshot before installing anything, so I could roll back if things went wrong. …
Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS
Posted on 2020-01-03, 13:41
I just can't understand some people complaining. Instead of being happy with a new, safer forum, mobile-friendly design (I for one am happy with that, most of my access to VOGONS is through mobile). Some are picky and want to complain about the font. Some other, about the colors. Only a few …
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2020-01-03, 05:01
For some reason I cannot play Grand Prix Manager 2 on WIndows 3.11 without the CD ROM... and the patches to version 1.02b requires DirectPlay *facepalm* so no chance of playing a less buggy version of the game on WIndows 3.x. But I remember playing it when I was a kid on WIndows 95. At least I can …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2020-01-03, 04:13
Horun wrote on 2020-01-03, 03:25: Went thru my collection of scsi cards and drives. Flashed the bios on a few Adaptec's to last known version. Tested a few scsi hd, all worked but the old Seagate ST1480n "brick" 🤣. It finally died and I don't care 😁 Nice paperweight 😜
Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS
Posted on 2020-01-02, 13:59
What OS are you running? Maybe we can recommend an alternate non-sse2 browser. I use Windows XP SP3 and Debian 8. I can't speak for Linux but for XP there is someone who maintains updated Mozilla binaries: http://rtfreesoft.blogspot.com/search/label/browser He maintains forks of Firefox, Pale Moon …
Re: New forum suggestions/Feedback
Posted on 2020-01-02, 12:43
Oh shit, I almost forgot to post this. I hate the new typeface. I can understand why Trebuchet may be a reasonably good typeface for certain types of websites but for a forum where ease and speed of reading is most important this highly stylized Verdana derivative is cancer of the eyes. Can we …
Re: New forum suggestions/Feedback
Posted on 2020-01-02, 12:24
I'd argue strongly against a "lazy option" for uploading photos. If you can't be bothered to pull your pic into Photoshop and do some basic editing as needed (crop it to show what you want, adjust the brightness / color balance, rotate it into the right orientation, check it's not in smear-o-vision …
Re: In this new decade, let us remember the Y2K Bug
Posted on 2020-01-02, 07:47
Re: New forum suggestions/Feedback
Posted on 2020-01-02, 07:42
Things change, and ppl will get used to it. The old skool theme is not much different from the previous vogons theme. Its purple with dark text, same thing. I’m already used to it.
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2020-01-02, 04:41
Today I've found that the new VMWare Fusion 11.5, for the first time, on macOS hosts can emulate the Sound Blaster 16. I'm about to try it out now... for a WfWg 3.11/MSDOS 6.22 VM. If it works, I won't need dosbox at all, except on my iPad with the very old ported version (iDOS2/DOSPad), which …
Re: New forum suggestions/Feedback
Posted on 2020-01-02, 02:22
I’m fine with the smaller limit for images. The man went to the moon with a computer using 4kb of RAM. We can perfectly fit a good image in a < 2mb image. Plus storage in web servers isn’t cheap these days.
Re: New forum suggestions/Feedback
Posted on 2020-01-02, 00:09
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2020-01-01, 20:43
Today I've found that the new VMWare Fusion 11.5, for the first time, on macOS hosts can emulate the Sound Blaster 16. I'm about to try it out now... for a WfWg 3.11/MSDOS 6.22 VM. If it works, I won't need dosbox at all, except on my iPad with the very old ported version (iDOS2/DOSPad), which …
Re: Very New VOGONS on Old Systems: using the 2020 era forums on retro PCs
Posted on 2020-01-01, 20:07
OK, I added the ciphers and it works. Hallelujah! Of course everything looks horrible as none of the styling works at all, but here I am posting from RetroZilla. This is one step in the right direction; this makes VOGONS usable (if not remotely pretty or pleasant) from OS's as far back as Windows …
Re: In this new decade, let us remember the Y2K Bug
Posted on 2020-01-01, 08:34
I think we now have an even bigger problem. The Y2K38 bug. Some 32 bit software will not go past 19 Jan 2038, instead they will roll back to some date in december 1901. Hilarious. Windows 3.1, by other hand, even with the Y2K fix for winfile, will be safe. At least until 2099. Windows 3.1 cannot go …
Re: Very New VOGONS on Old Systems: using the 2020 era forums on retro PCs
Posted on 2020-01-01, 07:43
But he has a genuine reason for such security: the spamming we had in some periods here when we had the previous version.
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