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Re: Adventures with Windows 3.0

Posted on 2024-01-15, 05:01

Higher color depths means Program Manager .GRP files will get larger because they store the icons, and there's a limit on the size (probably 64KiB but I forget), so basically higher color depths means less icons per group. At least this affects 3.1x so I assume it affects 3.0 too! .FON font files …

Re: Developing for Windows 98 and up?

Posted on 2024-01-13, 07:08

My recollection is that Windows 8.1 broke the ability to run Visual C++ 6, which would be annoying if you wanted to do some build/debug cycles on a newer OS. Perhaps that got fixed or someone found a workaround. I've heard good things about Borland C++ Builder. I haven't used it much myself but it …

Re: Lan to RS232

Posted on 2023-12-16, 06:03

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Perhaps if you install a firewall it will give you a way to turn off the network by preventing any data from passing in or out, at least to the extent that the firewall isn't itself buggy and may have some way to get around it. I have ZoneAlarm 2.6.362 installed, but when I tried locking it using …

Re: Windows 95 setup guide for the 2020's

Posted on 2023-12-11, 02:28

From what I recall leonardo is right. I've never used Rain, but this is how I'd expect things to work: When Windows 95 doesn't have any other application to run or any kernel work to do, it considers the CPU as idle, but what it does is unfortunately not tell the CPU to halt, which is why you want …

Re: Bypassing Shareware Time Limit

Posted on 2023-12-07, 09:06

Nice work elszgensa ! That's very persistent of you, I would have given up after it disabled menus the first time :D Did you try again due to some previous experience with other software that behaves that way? I spent a little time checking if other cracking software I was aware of supported this …

XML schema and CSS questions for a retro programming projects

Posted on 2023-11-26, 06:47

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I've reverse-engineered enough of the HyperReader!/HyperWriter! version 3 (.HW3) file format to be able to generate a fairly high-fidelity HTML representation of the contents of the later PC-SIG CD-ROMs. I've written Python code which converts from HW3 to XML, and XSLT to convert XML to HTML with …

Re: 3D games you would like to see in high resolution

Posted on 2023-11-26, 02:29

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So, games with more or less "pure" Vector graphics could benefit greatly. Few games that cross to my mind are some early Microprose titles such as M1 Tank Platoon or Stealth Fighter 2.0. Pacific Air War or Task Force 1942 would probably work also quite fine, like Dynamix's Aces-series flight …

Re: Experience with "3DS801A" FM801 clone in DOS

Posted on 2023-11-24, 10:16

It's very similar to foxbat's , but mine has been manufactured by Genius. Forté Media chip reads H6L02.00 and the AC'97 chip is a STAC9704T. Thanks for the info, and thanks for the info regarding games too! Do you understand how to set the volumes using VOLUME.CFG? No, sorry, or if I figured it out …

Re: Experience with "3DS801A" FM801 clone in DOS

Posted on 2023-11-21, 09:52

I'm glad it was useful and that you had some success tauro ! I was actually wondering recently what else I might be able to get to work with this card, so I'd be interested to see a list of the games you tested it with, if you have time to share that. Is your board identical to mine or just similar?

Re: Anybody still coding for DOS/Win16/Win32?

Posted on 2023-11-16, 23:37

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There are still things in the FreeDOS project that could be implemented or extended in existing software of that project. I remembered later that I think the reason I contributed to FreeDOS a little (I kind of forget since it was almost 20 years ago) was just because I wanted to do some DOS coding …

Re: Anybody still coding for DOS/Win16/Win32?

Posted on 2023-11-14, 10:47

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That might be the case and a good point. But that could be even more of a reason to use the newer open source compilers. Because who else will test them and write bug reports for older machines if not the ones, that write code for old hardware? This is exactly how these Compilers have a chance to …

Re: Anybody still coding for DOS/Win16/Win32?

Posted on 2023-11-14, 07:55

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If you want make your application open source or free software someday it's better to rely on tools that others can use too to compile your code. The same applies to support libraries. Otherwise your code might have a vendor lock-in. You might put your code under a free license, but you can't do …

Re: DesqView with a 286

Posted on 2023-11-11, 07:44

Sorry, I've never tried the following program, but I think I remember reading about it previously - the name rings a bell. Hopefully the system requirements are accurate, because it sounds like you'd probably meet them - it doesn't say it needs a 386 or anything. #2641 BACK & FORTH PROFESSIONAL 1 OF …

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