d1stortion wrote:archive.org is your friend, not todays sites that are increasingly not even mainly designed for PCs, but for touchscreen devices 😀
Oh yes. I love archive.org. On my Windows 95 box I have a few shortcuts that go straight to certain pages on the Wayback Machine from about 1998 or so, such as Apogee1.com and idsoftware.com.
vetz wrote:I'm one who have claimed to be surfing Vogons on my 486 and I know feipoa is doing it as well. Both of us use Windows 98SE and a much more modern browser. I haven't tried after the forum was upgraded though, so stuff might have changed.
Excellent! Whenever I read you mentioning that you were posting from a 486, I must have just assumed it was a DOS/Win3.11 machine. I only very recently learned that Win98 will work on a 486, so I will be giving that a shot!
megatron-uk wrote:How about using Arache from DOS instead? It's bundled with FreeDOS, and as long as you've got a vesa compatible card and a packet driver it should be better than trying to get an ancient historical browser running on win16.
I actually have Arachne installed, but I've never owned a NIC with a packet driver for DOS. I am now looking into finding an old NIC that has such drivers.
I am now clear on the fact that WFW is just simply a terrible software enviornment, and was even when it was in common use. I remember writing homework assignments on it in the mid 90's and getting screwed many times when the program I'm using just crashes. (This probably started my habit of spamming Ctrl-S constantly while working on ANYTHING.) It's not terrible for everything though... SkiFree seems to work well. 😉
- AMD 386 DX/40, 8mb, DOS 6.22 / WFW
- 486 DX2/66, 16mb, DOS 6.22 / WFW
- 486 DX4/100, 16mb, Win98se
- Pentium 166, 32mb, DOS 6.22 / WFW
- Pentium Pro 200, 64mb, Win98
- Athlon 500 MHz, 192mb, Win98