avatar_58 wrote:

as opposed to having several DOS machines. For instance the one you mentioned will run several games way too fast at 100mhz, while at the same time you can't play high resolution Vesa games without struggling.

Yup. Building legacy system should be focused towards late DOS games (hi-res, SVGA) and Win98 games. DOSBOX is always fine for DOS games that run at 320x200 resolution.

i've been at a different Win95 machine, fresh, no addons, and attempted using various browsers:

K-Meleon - Very very memory leaks, crashes, freezes, completely unusable.
Firefox 1.x, 1.5.x - refuses to install, crashes
Firefox 2.x - Whines about needing updated OLEAUT32.dll (which ships with ie6), getting OLEAUT32.dll from google and placing in windows/system causes firefox to function properly
Opera 9 - refuses to install, demands isetup or so which ships with 'internet explorer 3.02' (machine has ie 3.0)
OffByOne - FAST FAST FAST WORKS FAST, no css and advanced features but fast and works
Lynx - FAST FAST FAST FAST FAST FAST, though getting a hold of 2.8.5 for win32 that's not an installer will be too difficult for a stranded win95 user since the one who packed it as an installer made it retardedly only install for Windows NT users.

leileilol wrote:

K-Meleon - Very very memory leaks, crashes, freezes, completely unusable.

Always worked fine for me (though I haven't tried it on Win9x). Were you using the latest version?

And older versions of Opera shouldn't be hard to find. For that matter, did you try downloading it with the "Classic installer" option? Plus I think you can download a separate the MSI update package for Windows 95.

Jorpho wrote:

Were you using the latest version?

Yes
It's not fun when you can't see any menu options or any text or open any pages only to have the browser completely freeze the computer.

Also for IRCing, IamC worked good albeit it is quite simple. Miranda IM is king for ICQ client. Continuum runs flawlessly. I can survive in 2007 with this thing if I wanted to.

It's not fun when you can't see any menu options

Well by times this IS fun 😀

I'm too lazy to try Arachne (DOS browser) under Windows 95 but I can't see why it shouldn't work.

Could try K-MeleonCCF: http://kmeleon.blogspot.com/

butterfly wrote:

I'm too lazy to try Arachne (DOS browser) under Windows 95 but I can't see why it shouldn't work.

But since Arachne wouldn't be using Winsock, you've have to do all that horrible messing around with DOS packet drivers, no?

I'm not sure. If the computer or virtual machine is connected to the internet you needn't a DOS TCP/IP stacker.

butterfly wrote:

I'm not sure. If the computer or virtual machine is connected to the internet you needn't a DOS TCP/IP stacker.

OH RLY!!?

DosFreak wrote:

Could try K-MeleonCCF: http://kmeleon.blogspot.com/

Same issues.

MiniMax wrote:

butterfly wrote:

I'm not sure. If the computer or virtual machine is connected to the internet you needn't a DOS TCP/IP stacker.

OH RLY!!?

No, I'm not sure

butterfly wrote:

MiniMax wrote:

butterfly wrote:

I'm not sure. If the computer or virtual machine is connected to the internet you needn't a DOS TCP/IP stacker.

OH RLY!!?

No, I'm not sure

No. Already tried a DOS16 Lynx and no it doesn't magically detect and use your Winsock.

DosFreak wrote:

Could try K-MeleonCCF: http://kmeleon.blogspot.com/

Given the infrequency of official K-Meleon updates, this rather intrigues me, but what exactly does it offer that makes it particularly superior to the official K-Meleon?

By the way, looks like Toasty Tech has some suggestions on getting newer versions of browsers to work.

You could always try Avanat Browser, has lots of great features etc etc...

IE5.5 seem to work quite fine here in Win95 OSR2 on my P100 machine
Installled newest firefox but it crashed when I tried to launch it so I guess it's missing that .DLL file mentioned in this thread

even if you give it the dll it wants it fails

leileilol wrote:

even if you give it the dll it wants it fails

really? bah

Well, what can you expect from this OS that Microsoft abandoned in 2001-2002? 😜

...To be precise, that page I linked to suggests that you must delete "nsSafebrowsingApplication.js" and "nsSearchService.js" to get Firefox to work.