Re: Willow - Windows 3.0 Real Mode applications on OS/2 1.x and up (and stuff)

Posted on 2023-05-12, 12:14

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NOW, A CHALLENGE! Find me a price list - from back in the era - offering a 286 PC with more than 1 MB of RAM. Because I seriously doubt if such machines were ever sold stock... just picked a random magazine, and found the first listing with a 286: dell286.jpg (BYTE, March 1991, page 2) I went …

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Re: windows 98 says "Please wait while windows prepares to run this program..." for some apps; why? What is it doing?

Posted on 2023-05-12, 08:48

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It took me a while to figure out, but my understanding is that you're starting Works from a DOS prompt, and it displays that text in the DOS prompt before starting Works in a different window. I think I confirmed my understanding because in Windows 98 SE, I renamed something else to WORKS.EXE and I …

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Re: Finding old software by name or keywords

Posted on 2023-05-07, 01:40

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FWIW I reached out to him, not holding my breath on a reply. I've been able to find the stack and the resource file (both are freeware) but I wouldn't know the first thing about getting a 35 year old hypercard stack working on modern equipment. I have plenty of retro Windows computers, but not a …

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Re: DOSBox debugger

Posted on 2023-05-07, 01:34

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At least in 0.74-3, in the MEMDUMP* commands there is error checking for the call to fopen(), but not for the calls to fprintf()/fwrite()/fclose(). Sorry, I'm not going to offer a patch for this as I don't have a build tree set up and haven't built DOSBox in a very long time!

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Re: w i n d o w s

Posted on 2023-05-06, 09:11

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Wich brings me to my next Topic, Multibooting. I have read through some Posts and Threats beforehand and Im a little bit confused. Can I just Format another Partition and install some other System on it and it'll be fine, or do I need to mess with Windows 2000s or XPs (or potentually Windows 98s) …

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Re: GPT disks on windows XP SP3 (partially solved)

Posted on 2023-05-05, 09:10

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I don't even need internal support for GPT. In that case, if you don't mind performance being affected, presumably you could run an operating system that does support GPT in a virtual machine, e.g. under VirtualBox. Software like VirtualBox can generally be set up to directly access a physical disk …

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Re: Finding old software by name or keywords

Posted on 2023-05-04, 08:23

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I might have been too overeager with the link I removed 🤷‍♂️ But overall it’s a terrible grey area ;( That's understandable! I've been looking for an old bit of MAC Hypercard software, is there a resource for that? I don't know so much about Mac things, but I found some shovelware CDs when I was …

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Re: DOSBox debugger

Posted on 2023-05-02, 09:25

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I'm having an issue with memdump/memdumpbin - for some reason it's not producing a memory dump. I've tried with and without running the program under DEBUG (MS-Debug). DosBox gives me the correct log message of "DEBUG: Memory dump success.", however I cannot find memoydump.txt/bin under my current …

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Re: PCI Modem Cards

Posted on 2023-05-02, 09:18

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I think I heard or read that some of these cards could potentially be used by Asterisk , so one could built their own PABX - and hence have something that old phones and modems could connect to - but I'm not sure if I ever found any information about what cards are supported, if any. I ran out of …

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Re: Finding old software by name or keywords

Posted on 2023-05-02, 09:08

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You are walking a thin line with this thread. We do not allow copyright infringements on Vogons and thus can barely tolerate archive.org (and that is sadly questionable from a legal view). Please do not post links to sites that host software that is not theirs to host. Sorry. I intended the thread …

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Re: How can I remove all the contents under a certain directory in an easy way in MS-DOS 5.0?

Posted on 2023-05-02, 08:31

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You might be able to use CALL ABSOLUTE to call int x21 to read a directory listing in QBasic. In Quick Basic you could use CALL INTERRUPT. That's how I would have done it in QuickBASIC 30 years ago as a kid with no money, but now I would check if QuickPak Professional - which is now free and open …

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Re: Drivers and graphics card for autocad R12/R13 under DOS?

Posted on 2023-05-02, 08:05

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http://files.mpoli.fi/ has lots of old drivers. https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Afiles.mpoli.fi%2Fhardware%2FDISPLAY+autocad shows some display (and printer) driver matches for Matrox, S3 and Trident. However I can imagine that AutoCAD drivers might be hidden in driver packages that are just …

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Re: Finding old software by name or keywords

Posted on 2023-05-02, 07:56

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Good morning, I have found many interesting IBM files in old IBM's ftp server but none of them is currently available. Do you know if those files have been moved to another servers? Thank you very much. For instance: DOS Utilities (ftp.pc.ibm.com/pub/pccbbs/dos_util) I just did a Google search for …

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Re: The year is 1990 and you still have a PC/XT and can't upgrade. Which games are you playing?

Posted on 2023-05-01, 11:24

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However mine had Hercules graphics instead. Hi, that's well possible, yes. 🙂 It's not just possible, but a fact. Perhaps I had a clone rather than a genuine Hercules card, but it was almost certainly not secretly Hercules plus CGA, as I spent so much time wishing I had colour that I'm sure I would …

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Re: The year is 1990 and you still have a PC/XT and can't upgrade. Which games are you playing?

Posted on 2023-04-30, 09:55

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In 1990 I still had an XT-class machine like this one . Translation from Google: Another well-known and good computer brand that overwhelmed the Greek market was ACER. This particular machine with NEC V20 processor with operating frequencies at 4.77MHz and 8MHz, 640Kb memory, CGA graphics card and …

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Re: 1993 and 2023 had a baby and it's BEAUTIFUL. MS-Works 3.0 for DOS networked and syncing with Google Drive

Posted on 2023-04-30, 09:01

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Nice! Although I'm disappointed it's just Google Drive and not Google Docs with some automatic conversion :D I also recalled from an old, old project that I once found a dos emulator that could run non-graphical MSDOS apps in a putty session. After a little refreshing my memory and a fair amount of …

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Re: Creating a CMOS settings/NVRAM/.nvr file automatically

Posted on 2023-04-27, 09:30

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The CMOS layout documentation in CMOS.LST from Ralf Brown's Interrupt List doesn't seem to exactly match, but I got something working for the MAME ct486 machine and its AMI Hi-Flex BIOS which can set drive geometry, set the RAM size (I forgot that changing the emulated RAM size was the thing that …

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Re: Software named "ScsiServer" for Winodws NT4

Posted on 2023-04-26, 11:53

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Well, I always had interest in SCSI networking. It used to just be a means to an end for me, but I realised more recently how powerful it is! In my younger years, I've connected an 810 and an 875 together and used it for CDROM-sharing and a shared HDD on that bus (one computer Win9x, other computer …

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Re: Stuffing new Win98SE computer: ideas?

Posted on 2023-04-26, 01:44

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No worries! I suspect that what you want to achieve isn't possible because I think you simply can't have two separate bootable FAT partitions for DOS and/or Windows 9x which can see each other. The normal solutions are either to hide partitions, or to have both DOS and Windows 9x boot from the same …

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Re: targeting PC DOS 1.0 - how do you open files?

Posted on 2023-04-26, 01:21

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I think I would find targeting DOS 1.0 to be an interesting project if I started out targeting CP/M-86 and then investigated what it was like to port to DOS using those CP/M compatibility features, since I gather it was meant to be relatively straightforward. That's just me though!

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