Why would ME be less stable than 98SE? I thought the only problem with it was the removal of DOS. Stability issues were widely reported by "some users" and, though I didn't get much use out of the copy I pirated in high school out of curiosity, I did experience it being more unstable than the 98SE …

Sadly, things are now starting to get really crowded with the addition of the PS2 to my setup. *Sigh* , first world problems. Whenever I hear that phrase, I can't help but be reminded of the chorus to Weird Al's song . Yet another thing where Al's so good that his creation is trying to become the …

I put on my archivist hat today and digitized the infamous PCChips M919 manual as well as the one for the Number Nine Motion 531. Both are unfortunately too large to upload to the forum at ~8MB. Does anyone have any tips for getthing them on the Driver page? Why not upload them to the Internet …

Here in Denmark, they add something to the rubbing alcohol, that makes one sick if one drinks the 97/98 percent proof rubbing alcohol. It leaves a kind of sticky resedue, and is perfect to clean keyboard springs in. I think it will prevent more rust from forming. So I have used it to clean the …

Not the most directly retro thing, but I just discovered that Home Depot has 50-packs of 2" corner braces for $10.95 CA and picked up a pack along with some #6 screws for them. Great news for whenever I want to build more custom furniture for my collection out of scrap wood. (Typically, mounting the …

Also, I found another nostalgic, elegant, and useful shell extension in my old DVD+R backups and uploaded it : Something to add the Registry as one of the namespaces in My Computer. Registry access in "My Computer" folder? 1.5mb zipped? Elegant? Really? :confused: Anyway, icon is good for simple …

I installed Windows 3.11 on my 286@12MHz with 1 MiB of RAM. That is pushing the limits. :) It's pretty fast, but I can only run one program at a time... But the AdLib works and I can listen to canyon.mid. Totally worth it! Still having trouble with the OSSC to show the whole picture ... image …

Registry access in "My Computer" folder? 1.5mb zipped? Elegant? Really? :confused: Anyway, icon is good for simple regedit.exe link. I focus on UX and UI design. I think it's elegant to have the registry show up in the same place as Control Panel, Printers, and Scheduled Tasks and to browse both …

Well, that monitor, which I use with both my Pentium 3 and 4 systems, is a Dell 1907FP, which, from what I can tell, is a larger 19" variant of the 17" Dell 1707FP (support page: http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/product-support/product/dell-1707fpt/research ). I got the monitor (along with …

Getting some oldschool dev tools up & running. I'll let you guys figure out what I'm doing with this. ;) CameraZOOM-20180616125448791.jpg You're a braver fellow than I. When I get around to working on my software projects, I'm generally too paranoid to go with less compile-time safety than pascal …

I started digging through my DVD+R backups of old CD-R backups of stuff that originated either on floppy backups or from circa Y2K Internet. I uploaded a couple of useful freeware shell extensions to my Internet Archive account and installed them on the Win98SE part of my retro-corner . I also …