Re: Retro Software Development?

Posted on 2022-11-08, 21:22

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I have to admit to being fairly confused as there's been a couple people now in this thread who seem to think most of the people here are asking for a place to *only* talk about releases or something (e.g. someone I think previously referenced the "Releases" forum as being suitable for talks about …

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Re: Little help needed - any PC GEOS / GeoWorks Ensemble users around?

Posted on 2022-11-06, 19:28

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Jo22 wrote on 2022-11-06, 13:49: More photos attached. Where?

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Re: Retro Software Development?

Posted on 2022-11-05, 15:06

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Maybe there's some Twitter hashtag that is useful for asking retro software programming questions? Maybe Meta's metaverse has some kind of virtual environment that would be useful, like a virtual computer you can use to dial into a virtual BBS and post questions on a virtual FidoNet? I still like …

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Re: Retro Software Development?

Posted on 2022-11-04, 22:58

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Honestly, for my purposes at least, I'm not sure that would work. A lot of the discussion I'd like to have around retro programming has less to do with specific projects I'd have checked into a repository, and more random technical details. Like for instance, right now I'm trying to figure out if a …

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Re: New forum suggestions/Feedback

Posted on 2022-11-01, 19:02

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Minor, but still annoying (to me) is, when you click "Yes" in the "Mark forums read" window, you get a notification window "Forums have been marked read." But there's no "OK" button. You have to move the mouse cursor to the "X" to close the notification window (or press ESC on the keyboard.) So, …

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Re: Retro Software Development?

Posted on 2022-11-01, 14:46

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If vogons.org disappears some day, all content is gone. (I didn't check archive.org.) So it's probably better to split knowledge between forums, although registering account after account for the different forums is inconvenient. "Federation" and "Fediverse" spring to my mind. Hubzilla supports …

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Re: Retro Software Development?

Posted on 2022-10-31, 13:55

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That reminds me of going back to my DOS dev works instead of scrolling through gaming threads here. 😁

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Re: Sound Blaster Mixer and Might & Magic III issues

Posted on 2022-10-31, 13:30

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Post the link to this site and probably someone could assist you in patching.

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Re: What should I do with all of these driver floppies?

Posted on 2022-10-31, 13:28

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Copy protection on driver disks? Sounds strange to me.

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Re: Retro Software Development?

Posted on 2022-10-31, 13:00

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If vogons.org disappears some day, all content is gone. (I didn't check archive.org.) So it's probably better to split knowledge between forums, although registering account after account for the different forums is inconvenient. "Federation" and "Fediverse" spring to my mind. Hubzilla supports …

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Re: Sound Blaster Mixer and Might & Magic III issues

Posted on 2022-10-26, 19:58

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Scythifuge wrote on 2022-10-26, 15:11: Is there a way to lock the mixer settings on SB cards? I never heard about such a feature.

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Re: Retro Software Development?

Posted on 2022-10-26, 04:58

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Are you sure we are talking about the same thing? From what I understand from Hamby, this new section should be about programmers talking about programming new stuff for new old machines. No release announcements.

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Re: Retro Software Development?

Posted on 2022-10-22, 21:35

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"Shameless plug" as I'm the main admin there: Several DOS developers hang out at the DOS ain't dead forum.

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Re: PDF files for Windows 3.x

Posted on 2022-10-22, 21:30

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Or your build of Ghostscript doesn't have the PDF writer function included.

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Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on 2022-09-14, 20:35

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Partition hiding works by changing the partition id (= type) in the partition table. So, yes, of course, it's persistent. 😀

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Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on 2022-09-13, 19:27

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... 9. After installing Win98, reboot into DOS floppy. Load BOOTMGR. Set up a BOOTMGR menu with one option: Win98, but with the other partitions not hidden this time. This is important because the hidden state of partitions is persistent. 10. Reboot into Win98. 11. Reboot into DOS floppy. Run …

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Re: FTP server for DOS with long file name LFN support

Posted on 2020-05-07, 21:18

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Sorry, no idea about DOS. Maybe SlimFTPd also works on Win95: http://www.whitsoftdev.com/slimftpd/ (It only says "Windows 98/ME or Windows NT/2K/XP".)

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Re: Ontrack Disk Manager memory consumption and relocation to UMBs?

Posted on 2020-05-06, 11:40

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GigAHerZ wrote on 2020-05-06, 11:09: It was on my floppy image together with all the other files... Images are from the internet. I think i had both 9.03 and 9.09. I also got my images from the Internet: archive.org or philscomputerlab.com The file is just not there. 🙁

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Re: Ontrack Disk Manager memory consumption and relocation to UMBs?

Posted on 2020-05-05, 19:31

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Just found out that EzDrive has a ezmem.sys, that you can load in the beginning of config.sys that frees up the ~5000 bytes the EzDrive overlay initially takes. (Probably moves it away to somewhere else) So you can have DDO (the cake) and have the full 640kB of conventional memory. (and eat it too) …

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HP OmniBook 800CT support utilities

Posted on 2020-05-04, 11:55

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Hi! I'm the proud owner of two 800CTs: One with a P100 and 16MB RAM, the other with P166MMX and 48MB RAM. Recently I fiddled around with the OmniBook Support Utility Disk and found three tiny tools there: DOCK.COM, EXTFLOP.COM, and IDE.COM DOCK.COM source code CSEG RS 100h ; --- Read status. in al, …

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