Bondi wrote on 2023-05-03, 08:58:I found also this dell ftp site https://web.archive.org/web/20060503075658/ht … //ftp.dell.com/
Luckily all files seem to be sav […]
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I found also this dell ftp site https://web.archive.org/web/20060503075658/ht … //ftp.dell.com/
Luckily all files seem to be saved, at least those I tried randomly, including audio section.
My guess is that the DSP Solutions card was installed in some of the Dell computers, so there are chances that the drivers are there as well. But the problem is that the file names are not informative.
Anyways it's probably worth downloading the whole archive as there are hundreds of files. Is there an easy way to do it?
Yeah, Dell makes it a massive pain to identify their downloads. I guess it's worth a try though. I'm using the DownloadThemAll! extension to get the entire "Audio" folder right now. I might try network as well. I probably won't personally bother with the rest though since you pretty much have to manually extract and try to decipher the use of each individual driver from Dell.
Out of about ~300 files so far, I'd say that maybe 75% of them work. A lot are dead links, but most are downloading fine. I don't really understand how the internet archive picks and chooses what to backup... seems very strange. The more I search for obscure software for obscure old computer parts the more frustrated I get with the spotty archives. I hope the newer ones that are being made are more thorough.
Anyway, if anyone knows of either a filename "key" for Dell software to determine what they are for, or knows of a way to search all of these archives (once downloaded) for certain key words, it could save a lot of time.
I have my suspicions that I will not find any specific software for this here, but it's worth a try. Honestly, I haven't had time to tinker with it much yet and it's very possible that the standard DigiSpeech Plus drivers work fine... though I don't know how the CD-ROM interface would work.
EDIT: 595 out of 709 files downloaded, the rest are not actually there. Not bad though. We'll see if there's anything useful here I guess.
EDIT2: I just used "SearchMyFiles" to search for text within the whole folder I just downloaded and it found no mention of DS103J, DigiSpeech or some of the filenames mentioned on the other Dell page (DGSetup, etc.). I'm thinking it isn't here. It may be under network, but I just don't know. One thing that really stinks about downloading files from this archive is that they apparently lose their modified date? The modified and created dates on all ~600 files is now "today". 🙁 Makes it even harder to tell what is older.
Now for some blitting from the back buffer.