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

Posted on 2025-04-14, 11:42

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https://www.os2museum.com/wp/theres-more-to-the-286-xenix-story/#comment-363297 Wow, I might at one point have wished I had so much money I could buy the latest hardware the moment it came out, but it looks like that would be a recipe for hitting lots of hardware bugs! How generally available were …

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Re: TurboC++3.0 and "Hands on C++" pack in book

Posted on 2025-03-28, 23:57

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I disagree; using modern tooling to develop for older systems is far, far more productive. A modern cross compiler toolchain for Linux, Mac OS or Windows, coupled with a syntax/code highlighter, command completion with linting tools and build/link/test automation beats trying to run native dgjpp on …

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Re: TurboC++3.0 and "Hands on C++" pack in book

Posted on 2025-03-26, 05:49

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might still have the manuals. If not, there are scans online. Back in the day I didn't get very far at age 14 learning C++, but thought I'd have a go at retro coding. At least you tried, I was put off by the quote about shooting yourself in the foot :D I did learn it eventually though. I guess …

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Re: Need help debugging a strange behavior with DOS-based Windows (3.1/98SE)

Posted on 2025-03-21, 10:56

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Try running... I forget the name, but "cool n quiet" was its descendent. Waterfall? I can kind of see it being a temperature thing. I wonder if the BIOS settings might enable limiting the maximum CPU frequency? I sometimes do that from Linux when I want to keep the temperature down; not sure if …

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Re: Need help debugging a strange behavior with DOS-based Windows (3.1/98SE)

Posted on 2025-03-19, 08:41

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When it happens: - OS stuffs stop progressing, but mouse can be moved freely. - After 30 seconds, a single beep can be heard. - Everything starts moving again 10 seconds after the beep. That certainly doesn't line up with any of the kinds of "normal" bad behaviour I'm used to seeing! I can only …

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Re: Need help debugging a strange behavior with DOS-based Windows (3.1/98SE)

Posted on 2025-03-17, 06:35

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* I can still move my mouse pointer when it happens, but everything else stopped responding until the "routine" finished. Oh I see, that certainly doesn't sound like it's asleep. I seem to recall you can get beeping when the Windows message queue is full, which can occur if it freezes and you keep …

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Re: DEC ServerWorks and Quick Launch ISO for Prioris LX 5200

Posted on 2025-03-17, 06:22

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I spoke to them about a month ago and they said they'd have a look for it. Hopefully I'll get a chance to chat to them again in about another month. They didn't mention throwing out any of the stuff that didn't sell at the swap meet, so hopefully that means they still have it, it's just gone back …

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Re: Need help debugging a strange behavior with DOS-based Windows (3.1/98SE)

Posted on 2025-03-16, 03:31

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I don't know anything about running old OSes on bare metal modern systems, so hopefully you get some better advice, but: I wonder if the system is going to sleep for some reason? Are you able to disable the APM BIOS? I think this was something you could do on old machines, but I suspect you probably …

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Re: What are the best Vga to hdmi scalers or peripherals for MS-DOS games ?

Posted on 2025-02-26, 11:08

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Lots of people seem to say that Extron's products are decent. I'm not a great judge but I think the one I got is okay. I got a tip (I think from this thread) that one can generally find the Extron RGB-DVI cheaper than the RGB-HDMI and I certainly managed to find one on eBay that was cheap enough for …

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Re: DEC ServerWorks and Quick Launch ISO for Prioris LX 5200

Posted on 2025-02-22, 11:17

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I think I saw a sealed boxed set of DEC ServerWorks discs at a swap meet recently. I've reached out to the person who I think was the seller to see if they can find them. I had no idea what I was really looking at though so I could be mistaken about what I saw, and I seem to recall the box had next …

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Re: Any suggestions on what more modern IDE & compiler+linker for 16-bit DOS apps development to replace Turbo C++ 3.01

Posted on 2025-02-20, 11:05

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I still may install Turbo Debugger 3.1. I'm curious how it looks as it's a separate product. I hope it will work fine in conjunction with Turbo C++ 3.01 IDE as both are released in 1992. Actually, I'm gonna switch to Borland C++ IDE, which includes the debugger. Just installing Borland C++ is …

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

Posted on 2025-02-19, 05:08

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Among the bits of computing history I find fascinating are how applications could utilize expanded memory before direct support via a memory manager in a real mode OS like DOS or Windows up to 2.03. I was a bit horrified when I was reading the manual for Borland C++ 2 (I think) and it was …

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Re: Any suggestions on what more modern IDE & compiler+linker for 16-bit DOS apps development to replace Turbo C++ 3.01

Posted on 2025-02-19, 05:02

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I don't have Turbo Debugger installed. You may laugh at me, but I do my "debugging" in TC++ IDE through some temporary "print" lines for variable values, pointers, etc. in console output - imagine even more ancient times, when no debugger softwares/add-ons were available :rofl: Actually I remove …

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Re: Any suggestions on what more modern IDE & compiler+linker for 16-bit DOS apps development to replace Turbo C++ 3.01

Posted on 2025-02-18, 10:40

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I found three .TEM files (and UTIL.DOC text file) in TC++ 3 "DOC" folder, but I don't see any key bindings for "copy", "cut" or "paste" which can be redefined in them. It looks like I have version 3.00, perhaps they *removed* some files in 3.01? I have 5, although CMACROS.TEM is for extra key …

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Re: Any suggestions on what more modern IDE & compiler+linker for 16-bit DOS apps development to replace Turbo C++ 3.01

Posted on 2025-02-18, 08:02

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For example in M$-DOS 7.1 (not sure about 6.22) EDIT the "standard" keyboard shortcuts like Ctrl+C, Ctrl+X and Ctrl+V are usable, but in TC++ 3 the corresponding shortcut combinations are different: Ctrl+Ins, Shift+Del, Shift+Ins... and I still can't bring myself to use them. I guess I learned …

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Re: Any suggestions on what more modern IDE & compiler+linker for 16-bit DOS apps development to replace Turbo C++ 3.01

Posted on 2025-02-17, 04:39

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Thank you very much for all the info and your suggestions, doshea ! They may be useful to others too. No worries, I hope this information helps someone to be much more successful at completing a project than I am :D What I miss most about this ancient Тurbo С++ 3 IDE is the quick shortcuts for …

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Re: Any suggestions on what more modern IDE & compiler+linker for 16-bit DOS apps development to replace Turbo C++ 3.01

Posted on 2025-02-16, 01:29

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But the more complex the code for the projects become, the less productive it becomes to use this ancient DOS IDE. In DOS times I was into learning/experimenting with BASIC and Pascal, so in therms of usage this Borland Turbo C++ package is something new to me, that's why I have no idea what newer, …

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Re: Software support for mode 40h (Olivetti/AT&T/Compaq 640x400)

Posted on 2025-01-31, 06:57

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"TinySol (formerly MonoSol) is a free tiny Klondike Solitaire game designed for good playability on vintage computers, especially those with monochrome screens." https://classicbits.net/coding-and-software/m … ftware/monosol/ has the download and also a photo of it running in mode 40h.

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Re: ethflop - a network-backed floppy emulator for DOS

Posted on 2025-01-19, 00:41

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Following on from my previous post regarding NDIS3PKT , since someone asked, I searched for NDIS3PKT on http://discmaster.textfiles.com/ and found that the files I have in my backups match what is in http://discmaster.textfiles.com/browse/21567/35-Internet.zip/pksnd102.zip/NDIS3PKT.ZIP The only …

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Re: Windows for Workgroups TCP/IP Disk

Posted on 2024-12-10, 07:34

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Windows for Workgroups 3.10 was very rare, that being said. We have a localized copy at home from back of the day, but I've never seen one for sale on eBay. I suppose that might be because Windows for Workgroups 3.1 just added the networking features on top of Windows 3.1, so you only bought it if …

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