hi

leileilol wrote:

Can you get Steam to work?

i am crazy but not crazy enough to try this.

Can you get CCleaner to work?

no (invalid instruction).

Can you get pidgin to install?

no (installer crashes).

similarly microsoft silverlight won't install (unsupported cpu). in this
latter case it's because of missing SSE support.

bye

sklawz wrote:

i am crazy but not crazy enough to try this.

Well you don't even have to log in. You can't get to there since it'll say "There is a problem with your Steam installation. Please reinstall Steam".

Just be crazy for 2 minutes and confirm that this happens

And yes I get the same errors on ccleaner and pidgin

SO MUCH DISRESPECT FOR OUR 6th GEN AuthenticAMD AROUND HERE

Studies show that real AMD fans run K5 PR200.

Can it run Crysis? You better believe it.

I have an AMD 8088, 286 and 386.
I should get an AMD loyalty card 😀

hi

i installed steam from the HL-2 DVD and ran it so it could update.

When restarting it halts with this error:

Steam.exe (main exception): Unable to load library SteamUI.dll, Win32 Error 5 "Access is denied."

Not sure if this is what you were expecting?

may be this problem coincides with the end of win98 support:

1http://steamreview.org/posts/win98supportends/

I couldn't actually install HL-2 due to a disk read error.
I suppose we ought to get ready for the day when none of
our valve/steam games will be playable at all

bye

hence the word "XP" in the subject, and I mean real XP, not some kernelex

also, 🤣, support helpful as usual

lo

This is xp sp3, haven't tried win98se nor tried to install
new client just update the old one from hl2 dvd rom.

cya

EDIT: a new install of steam has the same error as the
updated HL-2 steam (steamui.dll).

bye

leileilol wrote:

also, 🤣, support helpful as usual

I suppose they have a point as the minimum requirements for HL-2 which AFAIR was the first real reason to install steam are as follows:

Windows 2000/XP/Me/98, 1.2Ghz CPU, 256MB RAM, DX7, 4.5GB HDD SPACE, INTERNET, DVD-ROM.

Some of those original requirements are now unsupported of course.

bye

well my main concern is that "Friends" window

there's no alternative steam IM client

hi

leileilol wrote:

well my main concern is that "Friends" window

there's no alternative steam IM client

okay, perhaps you can try KOPETE on windows and see if that
works. if not perhaps ANDLINUX works on the K6 (pidgin may
run fine in that)?

bye

UPDATE: kopete doesn't appear to have STEAM support. ANDLINUX
hasn't been updated in ages. one option is to compile the
pidgin source in CYGWIN. you may be better off dual
booting with linux such as debian 6 with XFCE if you really must chat
using the STEAM protocol on a K6.

shutdown time has arrived.

swaaye wrote:

Studies show that real AMD fans run K5 PR200.

Can it run Crysis? You better believe it.

There mustn't be many real AMD fans, then, since that chip is almost impossible to find. 🙁

sliderider wrote:

K5 PR200 is almost impossible to find. 🙁

I lucked out by stumbling on a CPUWorld group buy years ago. But it's only 16MHz faster than the PR166 so really the rarity is all that's special.

swaaye wrote:

sliderider wrote:

K5 PR200 is almost impossible to find. 🙁

I lucked out by stumbling on a CPUWorld group buy years ago. But it's only 16MHz faster than the PR166 so really the rarity is all that's special.

I read about a guy who found one in a vintage PC he grabbed from a dumpster. 😮