Re: Windows 95 installation stuck at "copying install files..."

Posted on Yesterday, 13:34

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by leonardo

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Very much this. If you're not sure which version of Windows 95 you have, check out the label on the disk. If it states 'USB support included' or 'includes USB support', you've got OSR2 at least and can go as high up as 32 gigabytes per partition, but if you've got the original release, you're stuck …

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Re: Windows 95 installation stuck at "copying install files..."

Posted on 2024-06-05, 18:27

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by leonardo

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Win95 only supports FAT16 and the maximum partition size for that was originally 2GB (64 sectors per cluster)... There's a point... Win 95 OSR2 does support fat32, I run it in my Aptiva with a 4GB hard disk in ons partition without problems... The earlier editions don't support fat32 and get you …

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Re: Need help installing OSX on a 2010 mac pro

Posted on 2024-06-01, 21:26

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by leonardo

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Sure - macOS (formerly Mac OS X) supports the hardware available on its release date and Leopard was released on October 26, 2007. Therefore it does not support hardware from 2010, as by then Snow Leopard was already out. For Macs that ship between OS updates, you will still need an up-to-date …

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Re: Pentium 3 550 runs HOT

Posted on 2024-05-30, 08:43

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by leonardo

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I recently built a Pentium 3 system, I installed a P3 550 CPU, the original was a Celeron, the 550 has a much less significant heatsink, very thin aluminum vanes. No fan, the celeron had a fan and a decent sized heatsink and ran cool, the 550 runs HOT, touching it for more than half a second would …

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Re: Best inexpensive Windows 98 CD-RW drive

Posted on 2024-05-24, 14:45

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by leonardo

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They should all be pretty much the same as far as compatibility with Win9x goes, but the overall quality will dictate prices a lot. Plextor drives from this era are legendary and for that reason command a price premium. Many HP CDWriter-series drives similarly, because they are rebranded Plextors. …

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Re: Pentium3 to look for?

Posted on 2024-05-20, 14:07

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by leonardo

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Pentium 3 have massive retro tax slapped on them already. And there's not that much on sale, anyway. There's a ton of Pentium 4, but there doesn't seem to be much demand for them. I still think the P4 is a bit underrated for retro gaming especially when paired with an industrial board w/ ISA slots. …

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Re: Pentium3 to look for?

Posted on 2024-05-19, 10:29

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by leonardo

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I want to avoid retro tax as much as possible. There are some Pentium3 rigs available locally but there is usually very little info on the CPU itself - and windows manager doesn't show the model either. For example, there's a rig sold for about 80 $ here (Europe) that has a Pentium3 and a Geforce2 …

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Re: Absolute best, Most reliable fans

Posted on 2024-05-14, 17:25

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by leonardo

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Does ADDA still exist?

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Re: My experience returning to Win98 after 25 years

Posted on 2024-05-14, 17:22

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by leonardo

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My experience with 98SE back then was a mixed bag; a lot of reinstalls, blue screens etc. Maybe because it was my only OS for some time, maybe because my self-assembled PC hardware caused the issues, maybe both. Nowadays I have 98SE installed on my x58-based PC (120gb sata ssd, pci-e radeon, sb …

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Re: My experience returning to Win98 after 25 years

Posted on 2024-05-10, 09:44

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by leonardo

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Haha i can definitely relate to the "format c:-time" -part. That is one thing i remember from being a kid. Basically having to format and reinstall Windows fresh like once a year in order to keep the system from slowing down. i think many of us did that :) OSes, but 9x especially, seem to get …

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Re: My experience returning to Win98 after 25 years

Posted on 2024-05-09, 19:42

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by leonardo

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As someone who just kind of fell off the upgrade wheel (as it came to desktop PCs), and also kept these older systems more or less available up till today, I will affirm that PCs were always more or less of a nightmare to deal with. It was such a free-for-all with few guard-rails, both on the …

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Re: How to open this case? MikroMikko 6 Plus DL/33

Posted on 2024-04-21, 14:11

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by leonardo

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Could anyone give me any guidance on how to open this case? There's only one screw visible in the back, nowhere else. Taking the one screw out doesn't seem to have any effect. Screenshot 2024-04-21 at 16.54.37.pngScreenshot 2024-04-21 at 16.56.13.pngScreenshot 2024-04-21 at 16.51.56.png This is a …

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Re: Dedicated IPXNET server software (C# .NET 8)

Posted on 2024-04-20, 18:06

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by leonardo

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OK, so I had another afternoon to try and figure out bridging my real LAN with DOSBox, and I have some new interesting findings. Running ipxbox with ./go/bin/ipxbox --port=10000 --pcap_device=eth0 --ethernet_framing=802.2 on the Linux host has for the first time allowed me to successfully connect …

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Re: Windows 95 setup guide for the 2020's

Posted on 2024-04-18, 21:27

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by leonardo

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Hmm... I probably need to add a disclaimer about the language thing. It's true that many of the patches that Microsoft released had to be downloaded specifically for the language-version of Windows you had, and crossing the patches for the different language versions would cause trouble. The service …

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Re: Problems with Windows 95 OSR 2.1 machine setup

Posted on 2024-04-16, 07:46

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by leonardo

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Hmm... there are a few unknowns in this thread for me but as general advice, are you aware that you may have to reduce the CPU speed during installation until you install some later patches? You can do this either by lowering the clock, or by turning off L1 and L2 cache from the BIOS, and then turn …

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Re: Windows 95 setup guide for the 2020's

Posted on 2024-04-15, 20:40

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by leonardo

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After copying the files, we need to extract SETUPPP.INF from the .cab-archive that contains it. To extract the file, enter the Command Prompt and switch to the directory where the setup files are contained with: e: [enter] cd folder_name [enter] then issue the command: extract /A precopy_01.cab …

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Re: Problems with Windows 95 OSR 2.1 machine setup

Posted on 2024-04-15, 20:27

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by leonardo

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Hmm... there are a few unknowns in this thread for me but as general advice, are you aware that you may have to reduce the CPU speed during installation until you install some later patches? You can do this either by lowering the clock, or by turning off L1 and L2 cache from the BIOS, and then turn …

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Re: Problems with Windows 95 OSR 2.1 machine setup

Posted on 2024-04-13, 17:35

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by leonardo

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Have you tried XUSBSUPP? https://msfn.org/board/topic/177518-xusbsupp-extended-usb-supplement-for-windows-95-osr2/ not yet, I thought the best was installing the chipset drivers first... should solve it to install xusbupp before chipset drivers? It's a little counter-intuitive, but you are actually …

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Re: Is it safe to connect to internet under Windows 95 or 98SE?

Posted on 2024-04-10, 20:34

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by leonardo

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Hi I mean connecting just for reading websites, without installing anything from internet. At least not anything with one or more alerts on virustotal.com I ask this, because I remember that Windows XP in his last days got a virus that entered the computer just installing it with a connection on. …

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Re: odd problem with Riva TNT2 m64

Posted on 2024-04-10, 20:27

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by leonardo

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I guess it depends on what you play, but Detonator 5/6.xx series already had support for GeForce-series cards included, and I found that performance in games for the TNT cards just kept dropping as the version numbers grew. That said, the system in question was a slower PIII 450 while the OP is …

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