Not sure if it's the thread what helped, but as of today VOGONS isn't blocking my bot anymore. Thanks to everyone involved!

why did you write an entire bot to scrape for updates when you could've just subscribed to the Atom feed ? Well, there are other sites in the list which are scraped as well and some of them aren't nice enough to provide their updates using atom or RSS. But yes, you are right, it's probably worth …

Hi, A couple years ago I made a bot for me and my friends, which visits a number of downgrade sites once per 15 minutes, collects any updates and posts them into a telegram channel (https://t.me/oldhuborgnews). Yesterday VOGONS started to block the bot from accessing the site, presumably by its IP. …

Thank you for your reply. Looks like it wasn't me. I disassembled the laptop and out of the blue it is working again. There were two unscrewed screws inside the case. So my only guess is that some of them shorted something on the motherboard causing such effect.

Today I, out of curiosity, disconnected an external floppy drive from a running Toshiba 400CDT and a second later the laptop powered off and never powered on back again. Now it just blinks with the orange AC led when the power button is pressed. Service manual says it means that "AC power cord’s …

So i can Connect a DOSBOX where Carmageddon runs, with a PC where Carmageddon runs on real DOS? Yes, that is the main idea. But I can't say it for sure about Carmageddon, so far I only tested it with Duke Nukem 3D. Is there a Windows Version too? No. I am not familiar with Windows network API and I …

In case anybody except me wants to connect an unpatched DOSBox to old PCs using the IPX protocol, here is a small program for Linux [1] that allows you to do this. I wrote it for myself and did only very basic testing covering my personal needs, but hopefully it will work for somebody else. [1] …