Re: Bought these (retro) software/OS today
Posted on 2022-04-25, 20:30
Re: Toshiba Satellite Pro 430CDT
Posted on 2022-01-15, 01:34
Gered , hi! Any chance you have factory restore disks for this laptop? Just bought it and soon I'll start digging inside. Wanna try original vision of the system. Thanks! I do not! That would be neat to have though ... You've probably found this via searching around already, but just in case you've …
Re: Bought these (retro) software/OS today
Posted on 2021-10-31, 12:34
That Windows 2000 Driver Development Kit box is huge. 😳 Man, I gotta sort out my storage/shelving situation at home so I can arrange all my stuff like this. Though my collection is not as impressive as that!
Re: Bought these (retro) software/OS today
Posted on 2021-08-27, 22:40
https://i.imgur.com/fhv3jThl.jpg Here I try to correct yet another transgression of my youth. Finally getting a legitimate copy of Microsoft Office 97 Professional! Sealed too. What a tragedy. Let's free it from its cage. https://i.imgur.com/zCkyv4al.jpg Ahhh. That's better. And yes, I do want the …
Re: Bought these (retro) software/OS today
Posted on 2021-08-27, 14:51
Non-game stuff, yeah. I guess we've been getting more and more lax about it as time goes on. 😉 But yeah!!!! I wanna see more non-game software!!!! 😳 (I have one arriving today, will post later)
Re: Bought these (retro) software/OS today
Posted on 2021-08-10, 20:43
blurks wrote on 2021-08-10, 14:38: Gered wrote on 2021-08-09, 21:50: [...] with my pirated copy of Photoshop 5 [...] Excuse me... WHAT? 😁 Haha! Hey! At least I am trying to correct the transgressions of my youth by buying all these old pieces of software I used but never paid for! I have another …
Re: Bought these (retro) software/OS today
Posted on 2021-08-09, 21:50
Newest additions: 1.jpg I missed this before apparently. GoLive. I remember playing with that (I don't think it was the same version as what you have here). Cool stuff actually, but shortly thereafter I started developing a distaste for tools that generated HTML for you, turning my back on previous …
Re: Toshiba Satellite Pro 430CDT
Posted on 2021-07-30, 12:12
I don't run Windows 98 on my 430CDT. Windows 95 performs very noticeably faster and I don't lose any features I care about either (perfectly stable, usable, etc). Anyway, under Win95 I can run games at 800x600, yes (e.g. Seven Kingdoms). I have not tried 3D games at that resolution (would run …
Re: ACKNEX / 3D GameStudio game projects for DOS
Posted on 2021-07-12, 23:42
Haha, cool, yeah! That was a lot of fun to work on! I do still wonder if I was the only one who had trouble building the DOS versions of ACK-3D from the code included on the CD-ROM. The windows versions build fine with no hiccups or anything along the way. I didn't mention it here in this thread …
Re: What do you regret throwing out?
Posted on 2021-07-11, 13:28
Honestly? Everything. I don't throw old electronics and things of that sort out anymore.
Re: ACKNEX / 3D GameStudio game projects for DOS
Posted on 2021-07-03, 11:55
Indeed it does. The book "Amazing 3-D Games Adventure Set" references it several times (always by the name "Slob Zone 3D", I guess the name switch to "HURL" occurred at some point after the book was published?).
Re: ACKNEX / 3D GameStudio game projects for DOS
Posted on 2021-07-02, 00:40
I have to say, all the ACKNEX history is quite interesting. I had a copy of Lary Myers' book "Amazing 3-D Games Adventure Set" back in 1997 (two years after it was published) which was essentially a book that described in detail Lary's ACK-3D engine (Lary is of course the original author of the ACK- …
Re: Dominus: A New Font for DOS
Posted on 2021-06-09, 01:13
This is great ... feels like a massive readability improvement to me over the standard font for 80x50. Loving it, thanks so much! 😁
Re: Dominus: A New Font for DOS
Posted on 2021-06-07, 12:40
Re: Dominus: A New Font for DOS
Posted on 2021-06-05, 17:12
Would love support for 80x50 too! Though I would imagine it would be difficult to squish the font into 8x8 characters, so probably wouldn't happen. 😀
Re: Bought these (retro) software/OS today
Posted on 2021-05-31, 14:27
Re: Toshiba Satellite Pro 430CDT
Posted on 2021-05-07, 13:11
Hi dinth! Sorry to hear about all the troubles you've gone through with this! :'( Here's the link to all of the photos I took during disassembly (plus a bunch more from before and after), but I don't think there is anything in there that will help you beyond what I already shared in the first post …
Re: Small Footprint Keyboard
Posted on 2021-04-01, 21:23
No idea what keyboard specifically matches the one you describe using back then, but as far as other options for small footprint keyboards go with PS/2 connector ... I'm a big fan of IBM M2 Keyboards . Pretty compact for a full keyboard layout. But not without it's share of issues. Any M2 keyboard …
Re: Retro Development
Posted on 2021-02-12, 12:03
Would love to see some forum for people interested in this to talk about it (whether that's here on Vogons, or elsewhere). There have been topics about it here in the past, like what pan069 linked, but they get drowned out by other discussions. Understandably, as there are definitely more people …
Re: Do you keep your retro rigs offline?
Posted on 2021-01-23, 02:36
I keep my retro machines hooked up to my home network, and they can access the internet, yes, but there is no point in doing so. The only reason I keep them hooked up on my home network is to make the transfer of files to/from them easier.
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