For anyone looking to view the site with vintage browsers, don't forget that solutions like https://github.com/ttalvitie/browservice exist. Browservice does all of the heavy lifting on a chromium-embedded proxy server, leaving an image map that almost any browser can correctly render. It's definitely worth a try!

- Alex

Actually, Ultimate Hardware works fine even with Internet Explorer 2 and 3. You can perform search with these ancient browsers and the output is perfectly readable even without CSS.

These ancient browsers don't support UTF-8 (that character encoding is supported by IE4 and later) but the text is perfectly displayed in English (UTF-8 is backward compatibility with ASCII)

I must say I really appreciate the effort in making the site work with older browsers 😀 It's nice to be able to browse directly from one of my Win9x builds.

Found a scan of the actual manual for a BEK V429S http://exeyesoftware.com/wp-content/uploads/2 … motherboard.pdf

BitWrangler wrote on 2021-10-04, 00:46:

Found a scan of the actual manual for a BEK V429S http://exeyesoftware.com/wp-content/uploads/2 … motherboard.pdf

added, thanks!
https://www.ultimateretro.net/motherboards/1043

Just want to say this is a great project!

I will add it to my links section (https://soggi.org/misc/links.htm) with the next update. 😀

computerguy08 wrote on 2020-05-21, 13:24:

• compatibility: you can view UH19 on devices with at least a 386, Windows 3.1/95 and Internet Explorer 5 (Win16) / 4 (Win32)

vetz wrote on 2021-10-01, 08:57:

I must say I really appreciate the effort in making the site work with older browsers 😀 It's nice to be able to browse directly from one of my Win9x builds.

Oh yes, a minimalistic design with compatibility for older browsers (also OSes and hardware) is very important and appreciated - that's also the way I do my stuff to make it viewable on vintage/retro computers.

kind regards
soggi

Important update!

We've moved hosting to a new domain: https://www.ultimateretro.net
There is also a HTTP fallback version available.

UH19 is dead... long live TURP!

... are you sure you didn't wanna call it The Ultimate Retro Depository ?? No? Not even for t3h lulz? 🤣

BitWrangler wrote on 2021-10-24, 01:00:

UH19 is dead... long live TURP!

... are you sure you didn't wanna call it The Ultimate Retro Depository ?? No? Not even for t3h lulz? 🤣

🤣
Hey back in the Battlefield 1942 days mid 2000's knew a great player named Turpman, he was also talented in web design and other stuff.
Long live TURP ! 😁

How well can the new site be archived ?

maybe you should make a pointer to the new site at the old location now that links to it have already been spread all around, or even better just redirect to the specific page locations.

weedeewee wrote on 2021-10-24, 10:22:

How well can the new site be archived ?

What do you mean ?

imi wrote on 2021-10-24, 10:37:

maybe you should make a pointer to the new site at the old location now that links to it have already been spread all around, or even better just redirect to the specific page locations.

Yes, this is in progress.
TL;DR, the reason for this is because we had a disagreement with win3x.org owner. We just figured that we had different visions for uh19 ur.net and nobody wanted to change their vision so we chose to simply move away. No drama here, he should put a link to the new website soon.

computerguy08 wrote on 2021-10-23, 23:11:

Important update!

We've moved hosting to a new domain: https://www.ultimateretro.net
There is also a HTTP fallback version available.

Thanks for the note, link will be changed!

Nice, I also have a HTTP fallback. OK it's not really a fallback (as yours also isn't), it's just reachable via HTTP and HTTPS - maybe one day I'll integrate a real fallback (HTTP only for browsers not supporting TLS 1.2 and higher).

kind regards
soggi

Small update: the HTTP link has been temporarily redirected to the main link, reason being that we're planning something different for older PCs. More news coming later.

I hope the HTTP version will come back soon.

It makes more sense to download drivers from vintage computers directly, instead of having to use an other device and, then, transfer stuffs to the target machine.

I agree, but we'll come with a service optimized for old machines and improve the "modern" service for the rest.

By the way, now that we've moved, I'd recommand everyone to stop linking to win3x.org/uh19/. That part of win3x.org will be turned off in late december as you can read on the main page.

Also, if moderators/admins of vogons could help us on this to replace each http://www.win3x.org/uh19/ with https://www.ultimateretro.net/en/, it'd be great, because as you can expect the old links will die (and it'd help us for the referencing of course 😁).
Thanks !

Whatever has transpired, I think the new dedicated URL is a great outcome. Really looking forward to the expansion card section!

Deksor wrote on 2021-11-24, 23:36:

By the way, now that we've moved, I'd recommand everyone to stop linking to win3x.org/uh19/. That part of win3x.org will be turned off in late december as you can read on the main page.

Also, if moderators/admins of vogons could help us on this to replace each http://www.win3x.org/uh19/ with https://www.ultimateretro.net/en/, it'd be great, because as you can expect the old links will die (and it'd help us for the referencing of course 😁).
Thanks !

pretty unfortunate considering the win3x domain links had just started to get established on google results

yeah 😒

also if you ever start replacing forum links automatically might as well get rid of all the sta$on links too :p