Re: Norton Utilities 4.0 for Windows vs 2001 for Windows

Posted on 2024-04-28, 23:42

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porksmuggler wrote on 2024-04-28, 14:44: Thank you for the replies, I have now experienced it. SpeedDisk and Disk Doctor did look as useful alternatives to Windows ME tools supplanted to 98, but the rest, TSRs, bloat, all typical Nortons sadly. but unfortunately NDD itself is also a DOS16M bloat.

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Re: Pocket 386, the brother of Hand386 and Book8088, the story so far ...

Posted on 2024-04-28, 23:32

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by roytam1

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Anyone know why NT 3.51 might have a hard time booting on this thing? It's not the low RAM -- I have it booting with 8MB in VirtualBox. On the Pocket386 it hangs after changing text resolution during "OS Loader v3.51........." but before the blue boot screen, with the text cut off at the top. …

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Re: Windows XP on 486

Posted on 2024-04-17, 02:20

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[...] If you have a 486 computer and a Pentium Overdrive CPU for it, you're welcome to try to install Windows XP with the Pentium Overdrive CPU installed then replace it with a 486 afterwards to see if it would still boot. I did that in the early 00's. Installed WinXP on a late PCI-based 486 board …

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Re: Windows XP on 486

Posted on 2024-04-15, 08:27

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by roytam1

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Lots of files have to be patched for doing so, but it is possible: https://msfn.org/board/topic/186080-xp-running-on-a-486-cpu/

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Re: DOS 7 IO.SYS File Format and possibility to remove included logo.sys and other data to reduce file size

Posted on 2024-04-07, 08:39

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by roytam1

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Added a undestandable IO.SYS edit. No russification. Slava Ukraini. Enyoy as long you can. Notice: localized versions have different offsets than English version, as a result batch files about en-disabling functions and cut-off logo should not run on localized IO.SYS. Ops, I trimmed my io.sys from …

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Re: DOS 7 IO.SYS File Format and possibility to remove included logo.sys and other data to reduce file size

Posted on 2024-04-05, 10:58

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by roytam1

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Cyberdyne wrote on 2024-04-05, 04:20: Added a undestandable IO.SYS edit. No russification. Slava Ukraini. Enyoy as long you can. Notice: localized versions have different offsets than English version, as a result batch files about en-disabling functions and cut-off logo should not run on localized …

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Re: DOS 7 IO.SYS File Format and possibility to remove included logo.sys and other data to reduce file size

Posted on 2024-04-02, 07:41

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I made a toolchain for packaging IOPAK.710 (I slightly modified IOPAK.8 from MERCURY127). Not universal, does not support addons. Only MSDOS 7.10 (Win95osr2 - Win98se) packages correctly. But its capabilities are enough to play around with io.sys packaging. https://www.old-games.ru/forum/blogs/ …

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Re: DOS 7 IO.SYS File Format and possibility to remove included logo.sys and other data to reduce file size

Posted on 2024-04-02, 02:38

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1541 wrote on 2024-04-01, 05:45: The link inside this Posting still works: Re: DOS 7 IO.SYS File Format and possibility to remove included logo.sys and other data to reduce file size You'll find IOPAK8.ZIP there Thanks. I wonder if I can recreate with CHT version of ME's IO.SYS.

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Re: DOS 7 IO.SYS File Format and possibility to remove included logo.sys and other data to reduce file size

Posted on 2024-04-01, 00:59

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by roytam1

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You can try compressing exe files with UPX to save more space. UPX is hard to fit for io.sys compression and it compresses 1.5 ~ 2 kilobytes worse than Apack. https://ibsensoftware.com/products_aPACK.html IOPACK8 from MERCURY127 uses Apack to compress io.sys. I wonder where I can find IOPACK8?

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Re: Memtest86+ old versions

Posted on 2024-01-21, 04:01

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by roytam1

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For information, latest memtest86+ that works on a 486 is v2.11.

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Re: Internet Explorer 5 + Windows 3.11 + 386

Posted on 2023-02-16, 06:02

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by roytam1

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s. After setting up QEMM, which was rather confusing, I did not experience any issue loading IE5, however, I did run into several other issues. For example, at Windows shutdown, I would get Windows Protection Error #0= You may need to restart your computer. C:\> I couldn't run anything at the DOS …

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Re: HWiNFO for DOS resurrected !

Posted on 2022-05-29, 02:20

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got "Fatal Error" when starting, DBG log: VidMode=3 DispComb=8 HWiNFO v6.2.1 Flushing disk caches ... Reading Data ... DetectCPU - 586 CPUID=513 Check Cx Cx[C2]=FF Cx[C3]=FF Cx[C0]=FF Cx[C2]=FF Cx[C3]=FF Cx[C0]=FF CxType=0 Check Potomac What CPU do you have and are you using the latest HWiNFO v6.21 …

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Re: HWiNFO for DOS resurrected !

Posted on 2022-05-28, 14:09

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got "Fatal Error" when starting, DBG log: Copy code to clipboard 1 VidMode=3 2 DispComb=8 3 HWiNFO v6.2.1 4 Flushing disk caches ... 5 6 Reading Data ... 7 8 DetectCPU - 586 9 CPUID=513 10 Check Cx 11 Cx[C2]=FF 12 Cx[C3]=FF 13 Cx[C0]=FF 14 Cx[C2]=FF 15 Cx[C3]=FF 16 Cx[C0]=FF 17 CxType=0 18 Check …

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Re: List of Web Browsers For All Operating Systems

Posted on 2021-04-14, 04:14

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BTW, any chance to port your NSS Netscape 9 updates to PPC Netscape 9? I know it would be a bit harder task... not from me since I don't have any PPC toolchains. I've been researching a bit lately and I have a suggestion. I think we can get around this, compiling a version of Classilla with your …

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Re: List of Web Browsers For All Operating Systems

Posted on 2021-04-01, 06:49

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Cameron Kaiser just announced his plans to end TenFourFox for PPC OSX and Classilla for PPC OS9. Sad day but understandable. yeah that's a bit sad about this. BTW Crypto Ancienne is appeared in Classilla's post. I wonder if there is a windows port for it. http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2020/11/fun-with …

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Re: List of Web Browsers For All Operating Systems

Posted on 2021-03-31, 03:46

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Cameron Kaiser just announced his plans to end TenFourFox for PPC OSX and Classilla for PPC OS9. Sad day but understandable. yeah that's a bit sad about this. BTW Crypto Ancienne is appeared in Classilla's post. I wonder if there is a windows port for it. http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2020/11/fun-with …

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Re: HWiNFO for DOS resurrected !

Posted on 2020-04-09, 00:42

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by roytam1

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I'm sure appreciative of the response, and for your taking the time to explain how backporting code to DOS would not be an easy task. Interestingly, I am running on a Lenovo laptop, i7-5500, 8 GB RAM, MS-DOS 7.10, and version 6.03 runs fine, but 6.04 locks up upon startup. Once I press OK at title …

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Re: HWiNFO for DOS resurrected !

Posted on 2020-04-08, 06:07

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hwinfo 6.04 hangs in QEMU 0.9 - 0.15. running hwinfo.exe without switch will see version dialog, hangs upon OK button is pressed and dialog disappears. running `hwinfo -r` gives attached screenshot and hangs. Filename qemu-0.15.png File size 9.38 KiB Downloads No downloads

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Re: List of Web Browsers For All Operating Systems

Posted on 2020-03-21, 23:21

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Bruninho wrote on 2020-03-21, 19:24: DosFreak wrote on 2020-03-21, 18:59: Nah you don't need it just select the different columns on the left hand side. The software names are in english Strange. All links I click on this site give me a 403 error forbidden. I can't search any software. the site is …

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Re: List of Web Browsers For All Operating Systems

Posted on 2020-03-11, 02:53

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DosFreak wrote on 2020-03-09, 18:02: SeaMonkey 2.53.1 released for Windows 7+ https://www.seamonkey-project.org/news Need to verify if Vista works or not. If Firefox 60 will work on Vista then it will.

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