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First post, by red_avatar

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I'm working on getting yet another retro PC all fixed up (AT&T Globalyst 486DX2/66) - a lovely PC that has everything I'd want a retro PC to have (6 ISA slots, 3 PCI slots, 2 hard drive bays, 2 CD/5.25" bays, two floppy bays, 2 PATA connectors, 8 RAM slots, etc. etc.) so I'm making it my main DOS machine. I have two Compact Flash adapters installed that each have brackets to allow access at the back of the case - each one having a 2GB CF card (the maximum the BIOS will allow for).

Now long story short: I want to make this PC very easy to handle files - I'm using Dosshell and Windows File Manager but neither are that great. Does anyone know a powerful file manager, preferably for Windows 3.1? Something closer to the File Explorer we got in Windows 95.

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IBM PS1 386SX25 - 4MB
IBM Aptiva 486SX33 - 8MB - 2GB CF - SB16
IBM PC350 P233MMX - 64MB - 32GB SSD - AWE64 - Voodoo2
PIII600 - 320MB - 480GB SSD - SB Live! - GF4 Ti 4200
i5-2500k - 3GB - SB Audigy 2 - HD 4870

Reply 2 of 10, by red_avatar

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GigAHerZ wrote on 2021-08-24, 11:08:

Total Commander is a godsend. (Y)

Ooo that does look interesting - I'll give that a go. Thank you!

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IBM PS1 386SX25 - 4MB
IBM Aptiva 486SX33 - 8MB - 2GB CF - SB16
IBM PC350 P233MMX - 64MB - 32GB SSD - AWE64 - Voodoo2
PIII600 - 320MB - 480GB SSD - SB Live! - GF4 Ti 4200
i5-2500k - 3GB - SB Audigy 2 - HD 4870

Reply 4 of 10, by Joseph_Joestar

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Another vote for Total Commander.

I'm using the latest available 16-bit version 6.58 and it works flawlessly on Win 3.11.

PC#1: Pentium MMX 166 / Soyo SY-5BT / S3 Trio64V+ / Voodoo1 / YMF719 / AWE64 Gold / SC-155
PC#2: AthlonXP 2100+ / ECS K7VTA3 / Voodoo3 / Audigy2 / Vortex2
PC#3: Athlon64 3400+ / Asus K8V-MX / 5900XT / Audigy2
PC#4: i5-3570K / MSI Z77A-G43 / GTX 970 / X-Fi

Reply 7 of 10, by GigAHerZ

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StevOnehundred wrote on 2021-08-24, 12:19:

It's great to look at, but if always fails after few minutes of usage. Bug-ridden top to bottom...
I wish there would be an active community around it and it would be actually usable... 🙁

"640K ought to be enough for anybody." - And i intend to get every last bit out of it even after loading every damn driver!

Reply 10 of 10, by Jo22

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Alternate Shells for Windows 3.1x

Some of them had a file manager, too.

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