Re: What music are you listening to?
Posted on 2019-12-09, 13:22
Starting the day at work with: Kenny Loggins - Danger Zone Berlim - Take My Breath Away Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Californication
Re: Heads up: Vogons will be updated
Posted on 2019-12-09, 12:55
One day I will make a real version of this funny layout design... give me one month of vacation from my work and I will come up with something similar in one week hahahahaha
Re: Retro machines usefulness/connectivity thread
Posted on 2019-12-09, 02:32
What if I am running it on a VMware instance? I don't really run these things on real hardware, I have more interest on the software side of the things than hardware. Well then... What about that hacked-up K-Meleon browser that floats around? It requires KernelEx but would probably work for YouTube …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2019-12-08, 22:03
Gave up trying to run Windows 98 VM with a decent browser for internet browsing and switched to a Windows 2000 Pro VM. Hopefully with BWC kernel extender I will be able to run some modern browsing with Youtube, some bells and whistles... and with my favorite classic desktop styles.
Re: Old software you miss the most
Posted on 2019-12-08, 19:50
- Old Firefox. They really ran themselves into the ground over the last few years and basically made Chrome the new market leader. What the hell were they thinking when they integraded some random videochat application, Persona themes, bundled a "Mr. Robot" advertising addon with their browser and …
Re: Heads up: Vogons will be updated
Posted on 2019-12-08, 19:08
To ease the shock: it will look different. But hopefully still kinda the same. Please don't go completely "Web 2.0" on us! Web 2.0 is fine, sneak peek: I know it's a joke (I also fell for it some months ago) and chuckled seeing this picture again, but it still looked pretty good if it were going to …
Re: Old software you miss the most
Posted on 2019-12-08, 19:01
Gered wrote: Here you go! I dunno what formats iPhones allow as ringtones / notification sounds, but I'm sure you could convert this if necessary. Thank you so much! Yes, I can get around it and convert as a ringtone for my iPhone. I'll set it for iMessage and WhatsApp
Re: Old software you miss the most
Posted on 2019-12-08, 16:40
I miss MSN Messenger, with its bells and whistles. The button to call someone’s attention in a conversation, the possibility of using your subnick to show what you were doing/listening to... I also miss Netscape Communicator, best browser I had ever used instead of Crapnet Exploder.
Re: Old software you miss the most
Posted on 2019-12-08, 16:36
I do NOT miss ICQ..... OH-OH! OH-OH! OH-OH! Going on the whole day when receiving messages :dead: The ICQ "OH-OH!" sound has been my phone's notification sound for years now. I like seeing people's faces light up when they recognize the sound and get all nostalgic, haha. Where can I get that …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2019-12-07, 20:16
Tried again to find a decent browser for Win98. No luck. I really want to have a retro Win98 VM for some games and other stuff, just like I had 20 years ago. But looks like my best (and closest) option is win2k. I’d use Win2k if I had a customized bootscreen, start menu banner, logon and shutdown …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2019-12-07, 16:50
Tried again to find a decent browser for Win98. No luck. I really want to have a retro Win98 VM for some games and other stuff, just like I had 20 years ago. But looks like my best (and closest) option is win2k. I’d use Win2k if I had a customized bootscreen, start menu banner, logon and shutdown …
Re: To end the AMD v. Intel debate.
Posted on 2019-12-07, 16:47
Wait, so in the end I didn’t needed an i7 for serious gaming, just an overclocked i5 for a cheaper price? *shocked*
Re: What to do when Windows 7 support ends in a few weeks time?
Posted on 2019-12-07, 05:18
EDIT: This was aimed more or less directly at the conversation of running Mac OS Catalina, which btw, will not work with DOSBox, because it is not 64-bit. Don't know if it can be. Excuse me, but... what are you talking about? I have macOS Catalina and I can run DOSBox on it. I've compiled it for …
Re: What music are you listening to?
Posted on 2019-12-06, 14:36
Re: Retro machines usefulness/connectivity thread
Posted on 2019-12-05, 21:03
Oh yeah, I remember! I quite really like it, although it requires a server to run it. I was looking for a more client side solution Unfortunately this is really not possible. Not on Windows 98 appropriate hardware that is. Even with Windows XP you really need at least a Core 2 Duo to use YouTube …
Re: To end the AMD v. Intel debate.
Posted on 2019-12-05, 20:59
Re: Retro machines usefulness/connectivity thread
Posted on 2019-12-05, 20:46
But if I could only get Youtube working with a Win 98 machine (even if I need to use a greasemonkey script to redirect the video to VLC) then I'd be happy. https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=69930 There's this =) I am doing more work on it and will release a better version soon. Oh yeah, I …
Re: Retro machines usefulness/connectivity thread
Posted on 2019-12-05, 18:48
The modern web is increasingly not built with HTML. Yes, it's always there under the hood. But many modern websites are just big Javascript programs, where the HTML is just added dynamically. Yup. I can see when some sites are like this. But I believe that, at least half of my preferred websites, …
Re: What music are you listening to?
Posted on 2019-12-05, 12:06
Re: Retro machines usefulness/connectivity thread
Posted on 2019-12-05, 03:20
I have a dream... where jQuery is dead, buried together with Flash & Internet Explorer, and we all go back to vanilla JavaScript, and HTML5 & CSS are both reworked to be even simpler for retro compatibility. Blame it on Google for pushing the boundaries of the web with their stupid vendor CSS …
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