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Re: Dos questions

Posted on 2024-05-15, 12:03

This is really cool, and even more impressive that you were able to multi-boot all those ancient OSes. My suggestion would be to backup your DOS 6 install and install 7 to test it. If it doesn't work, just remove 7 and copy 6 back.

Re: My experience returning to Win98 after 25 years

Posted on 2024-05-14, 11:45

by ldeveraux

in Marvin \ Software

Windows 98 is just a nostalgia machine, IMO. I started out with it when I got back into vintage computing, but the bugs and stability issues are just obnoxious. Eject a CD? Nah, Windows 9x is still randomly locking onto it--blue screen. Put the CD back in, hit enter, and then eject it again. It's …

Re: Programs for win98 to totally uninstall a program

Posted on 2024-03-28, 15:28

by ldeveraux

in Marvin \ Software

Apparently there's an old version (~2.XX) of ccleaner that works on Windows 98. So says Google!

Re: Where to upload old software extracted off old floppies?

Posted on 2024-03-26, 17:05

by ldeveraux

in Marvin \ Software

Create a free https://archive.org/ account and archive your finds there. That's what a majority of people do. It's an excellent resource for hard to find data. I just started mine as well, only has a few things on it at the moment, until I have time to start going through all my disks. :) REMOVED …

Re: Clonezilla - Motivation and quick tutorial

Posted on 2024-03-07, 16:11

by ldeveraux

in Marvin \ Software

The same Clonezilla CD you burn to create an image / backup of your disk drive(s) can be used to restore such backup. I just did that by the way, I restored the image you see on the last 'screenshot' to a different drive. So, I now have all my DOS games exactly the same in both the K6 machine and …

Re: Clonezilla - Motivation and quick tutorial

Posted on 2024-03-06, 15:46

by ldeveraux

in Marvin \ Software

So this essentially saves a folder backup that can be stored and restored by running CZ again. Then if you want to create a bootable installer ISO, it's another step. There are better options if you're willing to remove the HDD every time to backup with another PC driving, but this is good for same …

Re: autoexec.bat in MS-DOS 6.22 - how to start at C:\ after auto-executing?

Posted on 2024-01-08, 12:59

by ldeveraux

in Marvin \ Software

The same is still true in Windows 10 and 11 though. Are you suggesting Windows 10 and 11 have been both released for 30 years and killed off? I think he means in Windows 10 and Windows 11 you still can write batch files. There is still the possibilty to call sub-routines with a "CALL" command. well …

Re: autoexec.bat in MS-DOS 6.22 - how to start at C:\ after auto-executing?

Posted on 2024-01-05, 13:46

by ldeveraux

in Marvin \ Software

Azarien wrote on 2024-01-05, 09:48: ldeveraux wrote on 2024-01-04, 17:44: You're arguing best practice on a 30 year old dead OS? I guess? The same is still true in Windows 10 and 11 though. Are you suggesting Windows 10 and 11 have been both released for 30 years and killed off?

Re: autoexec.bat in MS-DOS 6.22 - how to start at C:\ after auto-executing?

Posted on 2024-01-04, 17:44

by ldeveraux

in Marvin \ Software

You're arguing best practice on a 30 year old dead OS? I guess?

Re: autoexec.bat in MS-DOS 6.22 - how to start at C:\ after auto-executing?

Posted on 2024-01-03, 13:20

by ldeveraux

in Marvin \ Software

Conversely you could have appended CD\ to the last line in liveinit.bat No. What's hapenning is that he's diverting execution to LIVEINIT.BAT, so once that batch file is done, execution won't return to Autoexec. All commands after LIVEINIT.BAT will be skipped. Only CALL LIVEINIT.BAT can fix this …

Re: autoexec.bat in MS-DOS 6.22 - how to start at C:\ after auto-executing?

Posted on 2024-01-02, 17:00

by ldeveraux

in Marvin \ Software

Conversely you could have appended CD\ to the last line in liveinit.bat

Re: New forum suggestions/Feedback

Posted on 2023-11-15, 00:34

by ldeveraux

in Milliways

Dominus wrote on 2023-11-14, 18:37: That‘s actually the forum software’s way 🤷‍♂️ I know 😉

Re: New forum suggestions/Feedback

Posted on 2023-11-14, 18:30

by ldeveraux

in Milliways

Apologies if it's been asked, there's a chance I've even asked it! But I haven't got a solution so I'll ask. Browsing via firefox, I come to the Software subforum and I see there are new replies to a topic. If I click on the topic it takes me to the first page. Is there a way to take me to the last …

Re: New forum suggestions/Feedback

Posted on 2023-11-12, 13:10

by ldeveraux

in Milliways

Apologies if it's been asked, there's a chance I've even asked it! But I haven't got a solution so I'll ask. Browsing via firefox, I come to the Software subforum and I see there are new replies to a topic. If I click on the topic it takes me to the first page. Is there a way to take me to the last …

Re: New forum suggestions/Feedback

Posted on 2023-10-08, 10:56

by ldeveraux

in Milliways

Not sure if this is the right place, but I noticed an oddity with the "Report this post" option. It only shows on my posts but not anyone else's. This would seem to be profoundly pointless, as why would I want to report my own posts? Surely, if it was to be there at all, it should be on everyone …

Re: Is there a patch for 3D Windows XP.scr Screen Saver to work on new OSes?

Posted on 2023-10-04, 15:42

by ldeveraux

in Marvin \ Software

This wasn't really on my radar, but really cool that it works!

Re: Want to upload DOS program!

Posted on 2023-09-27, 16:16

by ldeveraux

in Marvin \ Software

BloodyCactus wrote on 2023-09-26, 12:44: its hosted on sourceforge, why does it need to be anywhere else? you have one place to keep it updated instead of updating loads of other sites. Came here for this...