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Re: school text books "Try it in BASIC"

Posted on 2023-06-27, 09:05

in Milliways
as a side-effect many school children got at least some exposure to programming at an early age, which possibly has all kinds of advantages down the line. In one of his many comments under the article he even makes a back-of-the-envelope calculation along the lines of: x-million children were …

Re: Installing Windows98 on C2d laptop

Posted on 2023-06-25, 01:34

in Windows
I'm not sure, but I wonder if it's the kind of thing that can occur when the file is too far from the start of the disk so it can't be read by the BIOS and can instead only be read in 32-bit mode? How big is the partition containing that file and how big are any partitions before it on the disk? If …

Re: school text books "Try it in BASIC"

Posted on 2023-06-24, 04:00

in Milliways
No, it didn't. People pirated software in practice. That's what the majority did, so it was free. Especially the C64 kids on the school yard did that. In my school yard, the kids were pirating games 95% of the time, and sometimes some other very popular software like Microsoft Windows and Word. And …

Re: Native DOS games with framerate display built in

Posted on 2023-06-18, 09:47

in DOS
World Circuit - has not fps, but other performance numbers. More information for those interested: This game, which is also known as Microprose Formula 1 Grand Prix, and its successor Grand Prix 2 both require you to select the frame rate you want - between 8.1 and 25.0 for the former, 8.0 and 25.6 …

Re: Is Windows 3.1 limited to win32s?

Posted on 2023-06-18, 06:43

I don't think you could get what you want--the ability to run arbitrary PEs on Windows 3.1--without, essentially, recreating Windows 95. For one thing, Win16 and Win32s executables all share a single address space, so only PEs with a relocation table can execute under Win32s. Any PEs missing one …

Re: Status Of MIRC

Posted on 2023-06-12, 01:21

Discord is like IRC, but it uses a web browser, you can see the history from when you weren't connected, and the server doesn't need a NickServ or whatever to stop people from stealing your name, so it's much more convenient (unless you're trying to connect from a retro PC!). If you really want to …

Re: Anybody still coding for DOS/Win16/Win32?

Posted on 2023-06-11, 12:18

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I was just wondering if anyone was still writing code (games/apps) for DOS/Win16/Win32 (DOS - Win 98)? I sort of am. In the last few years I've: - Started on a tool which shows block device information in DOS because I wanted to know what geometry was being presented for some devices; I think there …

Re: Assign Drive Letter to Tape Drive in DOS

Posted on 2023-05-29, 06:46

I found one from 1996 which supposedly still supports DOS and uses real-mode drivers even though it's for Windows 95 - "Tapedisk Professional" in PC Magazine 14 May 1996 p60 - https://books.google.com/books?id=NGNpFuAXu70C&lpg=PA60&pg=PA60 I thought perhaps this particular software package was too …

Re: Windows 2000/XP refuse to run

Posted on 2023-05-28, 08:35

Is there a way to just get the memtest program so I can run it from the DOS prompt rather than burn an entire CD to test one system? I don't think you can get it in the form of a program that you run from some other OS - I'm pretty sure you have to boot it - but it's tiny, I'm pretty sure it can …

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