Re: My set of rules for perfection

Posted on Yesterday, 08:33

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Well, that's a lot of OCD right there :D , but FWIW, I guess I have some of those "rules" myself. I mean, I don't even build retro setups. All "retro" setups I have were bought new at some point. But I did replace parts on all of them multiple times. I do put expansion slot covers, but I don't care …

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Re: Which browser do you use?

Posted on Yesterday, 08:07

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Procyon wrote on Yesterday, 07:03: Addblock plus had adds in YouTube when I last tried it. Try uBlock Origin. I've switched over to it in all my browsers a few years back.

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Re: Which browser do you use?

Posted on 2020-09-20, 17:37

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Procyon wrote on 2020-09-20, 14:10: At home I use Firefox because it has addblock and I use a nice visual theme. At work I use Chrome and I hate it because of all the adds. You are not aware that the same ad-blocking extensions are available for Chrome as are for Firefox?

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Re: Which browser do you use?

Posted on 2020-09-18, 08:09

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Slimjet - Chromium-based, but not made by Google. Their old version for XP/Vista still has a relatively good website compatibility, but that gets worse over time.

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Re: Help me finish my first DOS build

Posted on 2020-09-17, 13:38

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p.s. its the yamaha game port in particular that has a resource conflict, but cant find what it conflicts with... on resources tab I only see it uses input/output range 0211-0211, the sbpro2 game port is on 0200-0207. Idk what to do, guess I'll just disable the yamaha game port, not like I need two …

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Re: Help me finish my first DOS build

Posted on 2020-09-17, 11:13

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I'll reiterate my general advice. Before you go into complicated dual-card solutions, try with one card at a time - verify what works and what doesn't. Maybe you'll hit compatibility issues, maybe you won't.

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Re: Help me finish my first DOS build

Posted on 2020-09-17, 08:45

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If it's indeed an SBPro-compatible Yamaha card, like the Audician32, then it should be slightly better-sounding / less noisy than the SBPro2. There is no reason to keep both in the same system - they are too similar feature-wise. The only question is - can you get the Yamaha to work at all in Win95. …

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Re: Help me finish my first DOS build

Posted on 2020-09-17, 06:13

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yes, and it was win95 osr 2.5, but with osr 2.x seems like you can only reboot back to dos6 once before io.sys gets overriden Well, this is consistent with what I read on mdgx - it seems like Win95 OSR 2.x has a bug that is not present is the original Win95 or Win98. I must have skipped OSR 2.x, so …

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Re: Drivers doing stuff on their own and other horror stories

Posted on 2020-09-16, 07:01

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Apparently the support was "disabled" because of Win7 EOL politics with Microsoft. I think it was mostly to reduce the validation efforts. They just don't want to commit that this configuration will work, because then they'll have to double the validation, testing, and bugfix efforts. That issue …

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Re: Drivers doing stuff on their own and other horror stories

Posted on 2020-09-15, 11:38

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Re: Sound drivers force modifying startup files every time you run them Super-annoying. Happened to me with the Yamaha Audician 32 SETUPSA utility. There at least it was a simple fix - the filenames are hardcoded in the executable as strings. Hex-edited it to point it to different (nonexistent or …

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Re: Windows XP on newer Systems (Intel >Haswell/AMD Ryzen)

Posted on 2020-09-14, 15:20

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Not sure about that. The small percentage of people that still use XP, are people working in hospitals, military (ironically enough) etc. Exactly. It's a small but important market. In fact, I believe that if something truly critical comes out and gets noticed, MSFT itself will release a patch, …

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Re: Windows XP on newer Systems (Intel >Haswell/AMD Ryzen)

Posted on 2020-09-14, 13:47

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Bruninho wrote on 2020-09-14, 12:51: Anyway, I bet it’s safer now to browse in a Win 3.x or Win 9x browser than before in their heydays For sure, especially since there are about 2 websites in the world that still work in a 3.x/9x-compatible browser. And one of them is VOGONS. 😁

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Re: Windows XP on newer Systems (Intel >Haswell/AMD Ryzen)

Posted on 2020-09-14, 11:07

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I bet there are multiple known unpatched 0day exploits for XP already. Wouldn't be fun to have some invisible keylogger on your system, for example... :( People say "I use my brain, so I'm safe" all the time, but it's not that simple. No hard feelings, I just hope people are aware of the huge …

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Re: Help me finish my first DOS build

Posted on 2020-09-14, 04:28

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And you really installed DOS 6 first, then Win98? Because their "workaround" for Win98 SE is literally just that: 1. Install MS-DOS 6.xx (6.00 up to 6.22) 2. Install Windows 95B/95C OSR 2.x or Windows 98/98 SE, and make sure to answer YES when prompted to BACKUP your old Operating System files ( …

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Re: Help me finish my first DOS build

Posted on 2020-09-13, 18:06

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I tried that already and it didn't work, seems like it only works with vanilla win95 prior to osr2.x I find this, as well as the source you linked to above highly questionable considering that there are evidence of folks using this method to dualboot DOS6 and Win98. I'm almost sure I was one of …

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Re: Help me finish my first DOS build

Posted on 2020-09-12, 08:58

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I haven't read the entire thread, so forgive me if I'm repeating things. I'll just try to summarize the key points that I learned over the years. Dual booting DOS6 and Win9x is generally pointless. The only meaningful exception is when you want to run both Windows 9x and Windows 3.11, in which case …

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Re: Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-09-11, 10:47

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Miphee wrote on 2020-09-11, 10:40: I hate when they don't read. Read first, leave a wall of text later. I edited my post. Feel free to read it now. If it is still not clear to you that you are wrong, then there is no point in us talking about this any further.

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Re: Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-09-11, 10:23

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Miphee, I feel that you either don't understand or are being deliberately misleading. Please see edit below. I just searched online about "defects" on eBay and found nothing remotely close to : Defects include everything that made the buyer unhappy. It can literally be anything What I see is are …

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Re: Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-09-11, 08:55

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Defects can cause many problems: What's a "defect"? How does negative feedback translate to a defect? People with fewer sales only need a few negatives to get banned and scummy buyers know that. Again - how does negative feedback cause a ban? I'm asking because I am really not familiar with the …

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Re: Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-09-11, 06:55

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Buyer feedback is not an important feature. Since all transactions are initiated by the buyers, it's the seller feedback that matters, because buyers use it to decide whether they trust the seller or not. When looking at the seller's feedback, you can see all the negative left for that seller as …

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