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Re: Rescuing an old HD

Posted on 2012-02-10, 16:54

in DOS
an old DOS 5.1 machine There is no DOS 5.1. The DOS box has no disk drive or network, so it has to be by serial cable. It took me a couple of days to realize that DosBox + interlnk/intersvr won't work. And another few agonizing days of Putty and System.IO.Ports.SerialPort to understand that The …

Re: Any interest in a MS Windows Security Update CD?

Posted on 2012-02-07, 00:27

in Milliways
I have one of those too. I was debating whether to put it up on eBay. (After all, it says "Not For Resale" on it.) Indeed, folks have picked it apart and there is little reason I can see why not to go with one of the unofficial Service Packs when it comes to Win9x.

Re: USB keyboard driver for DOS?

Posted on 2012-02-07, 00:02

in DOS
Malik wrote: But the best bet to do in a system that does not have USB support in BIOS is to use a USB-to-PS/2 adapter, which is cheap, easily available and risk-failure free. I have the distinct impression that those will not work with all keyboards on all systems.

Re: Know any good ms-dos GUIs?

Posted on 2012-02-05, 00:31

in DOS
Come to think of it, DISPLAY also has some pretty good file-management capabilities, in addition to being a versatile image (and movie!) viewer. It's available at http://www.resoo.org/docs/dos/free_software/graphics.htm . Not really a GUI, technically, but it's free, at least.

Re: Gone Fishin'

Posted on 2012-02-03, 20:09

Instead of saying you tried everything, could you perhaps say exactly what you're trying now? If you are mounting the game's directory as C:\ instead of the game's parent directory (i.e. C:\whatever\GONEFISH instead of C:\whatever), that could very well be the problem. If all else fails, you can use …

Re: Why emulate? just why?

Posted on 2012-02-01, 22:26

in Windows
PunkMaister wrote: actually if not Emulators the best alternative is FPGA or programmable hardware As far as consumer-level consoles and computers go, at this point that technology is still so new that I suspect software emulation will remain preferable for some time.

Re: Any millionaires around?

Posted on 2012-02-01, 18:34

in Milliways
I recall that Intel apparently sold off its defective Pentium chips as jewelry back in the day. So, there's an option. After all, people are making money selling wristbands with magical "energy" holograms on them, apparently. But as the description suggests, there could very well be some wacky Super …

Re: Need help replacing "screeching" hard drive

Posted on 2012-02-01, 05:38

in Milliways
Indeed, logical partitions can't be set as Active. (Not normally, anyway, and they're certainly not supposed to be.) I suppose if you really want to, you can back up your MBR (somehow?) and then use "sys c:" on the hard drive from an ME boot floppy. You won't be able to get back into XP until you …

Re: Need help replacing "screeching" hard drive

Posted on 2012-01-31, 20:38

in Milliways
I get the same boot screen from WinXP, so I'm given the option to boot to WinXP or WinME. XP boots fine, ME gives me a system disk not present error and if I press enter it restarts the boot process. What bugs me is that the ME partition is Primary and the XP one is Logical and this is how it was …

Re: dBASE II dbase.com does not run (?)

Posted on 2012-01-31, 18:13

Did you install the application from its original disks? If not, and you are not mounting the directories in a way that matches its original installation, that might be the problem. And of course if all you have is dbase.com and dbaseovr.com , you're probably missing a bunch of support files. Also, …

Re: Why emulate? just why?

Posted on 2012-01-31, 05:18

in Windows
Life is short, there are a lot of games to play, and for some people actually playing the games is substantially more fun than mucking about in flea markets for hardware that may or may not work. That is why people emulate.

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