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PSA: M-Audio Firewire 410 Firmware Downgrade Success! Now Working in Mac OS 9

Mac OS9 Lives about 5 months ago

Long story short: I was able to get an old version of the M-Audio Firewire 410 firmware loaded using a laptop with Windows XP and the fw410_10013_cd.exe installer, which has gotten it working in OS 9!   Long story long: I picked up an ... …

PC 486SX (ao486) • DOSContainer alpha release

MISTerFPGA about 5 months ago

Dear fellow PC enthusiasts. Enjoy!https://gitlab.com/do... DOSContainer project started out over a year ago in response to me becoming aware of community-created "packs" of games. These come in the form of large hard drive images with …

IBM PC, PCXT, Tandy 1000 • Mtools and MS-DOS 3.3x

MISTerFPGA about 5 months ago

Would anyone here happen to know of any sort of in compatibility between GNU mtools and old versions of MS-DOS? I'm writing a tool that generates bootable hard disk images and everything is just fine from 6.22 down to 4.00 but 3.31 and 3.30 won't boot in …

HP's UCSD Pascal for MS-DOS?

VCFed about 5 months ago

I am trying to identify a Version of Pascal for MS-DOS. It seems to be a variant of UCSD Pascal, but I am not sure. Maybe the following details ring a bell somewhere... HP obviously used this system to develop software for the HP 150 as well as for the H …

Voodoo 5 5500 AGP Graphics Card + Extras $350 starting

VCFed about 5 months ago

Hello all - thank you so much for the opportunity to post here. This card is in excellent shape, with only light use. I have tested it on a Win98 testbed, and it runs Quake 2 beautifully. This card would be perfect for your retro gaming rig. In fact, if th …

MSDOS software to generate printable ASCII calenders

VCFed about 5 months ago

I seem to remember there was a simple MSDOS application that would generate a printable monthly or yearly calender as a text file. I may be thinking of pcal for Linux consoles. Anyone know of a simple command line app that generates a text calendar like …

Windows 10- old games (dual boot, virtual machine)

Neo Geo Forums about 5 months ago

Does anyone here use a dual boot system (for example, Windows 7 & Windows 10)? Or a virtual machine (running different OS's)? Are there problems with using a newer graphics card (that doesn't support Windows XP or 7)? Some older games don't play on Wi …

Windows 10- old games (dual boot, virtual machine)- graphics cards

Neo Geo Forums about 5 months ago

Does anyone here use a dual boot system (for example, Windows 7 & Windows 10)? Or a virtual machine (running different OS's)? Are there problems with using a newer graphics card (that doesn't support Windows XP or 7)? Some older games don't play on Wi …
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Pole Position II Skids Onto Nintendo Switch & PS4 Later This Week

Time Extension about 6 months ago

Arrives on December 7th.Namco's racing sequel Pole Position II will be coming to the Nintendo Switch eShop & PS4 this week on December 7th, as reported by Famitsu. It joins the original game, which was released across both consoles earlier this year on …

Software Compatibility Question

VCFed about 6 months ago

Hey everyone, I downloaded Elcotel PNM manager 2.2 (pay phone programming software) for running on my 386DX/33. However, the manual says it needs a 486, MS-DOS 6.2, and Windows (95, 98, or NT). Has anyone had success with running software with a computer …

xflash utility for Teknor ISA Single Board Computers SBC

VCFed about 6 months ago

hi all, I have a Teknor AT4 single board computer (486sx33), and from reading the manual there is a utility called 'xflash' that is used to manage the flash memory that is used to boot the computer as if it had a disk in the A: drive. The SBC i have i …

FREE MS-DOS OS AND SOFTWARE IN 5.25" FORMAT

VCFed about 6 months ago

Offered free to good home, my 5.25" floppy collection of MS-DOS software comprised mostly of MS-DOS system disks, Turbo Pascal, C, debuggers, and related along with Microsoft C and QuickC. This is a non-specific list but the collection contains the 19 …

Devolution - A real-time strategy game for the C64 and MS-DOS by Windigo Productions

Indie Retro News about 6 months ago

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MS-DOS utility collections

VCFed about 6 months ago

Any good ISO or torrents of miscellaneous DOS utilities/programs? Here are the ones I'm looking for: pkzip zoo telix list ... or any good directory lister I can find everything individually so I guess I could always make one. It's not too many items. I' …

File/System Integrity Monitoring for Windows 95

VCFed about 6 months ago

Normally I like using TinyWatcher for this purpose and that works great on anything Windows 98 and above for watching changes in the registry, files, etc. However despite the system requirements saying it'll run on Windows 95 it has never run on any versio …
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Review: Duke Nukem Collection 2 - A Trio Of Duke's Less Essential Adventures

Time Extension about 6 months ago

Smells like someone cut the fromage.Although Duke Nukem's history is filled with notable titles – the much-delayed Duke Nukem Forever being perhaps the most infamous of all – it's fair to say that his most beloved game is 1996's Duke Nukem 3D, an FPS c …
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Review: Duke Nukem Collection 1 - The King's First Three Adventures In One Place

Time Extension about 6 months ago

Shake it, baby.A few years before he was "all outta gum", Duke Nukem starred in a pair of MS-DOS action platformers which were distributed as shareware. Created by Apogee Software, Duke Nukem (1991) and Duke Nukem II (1993) were two rare beasts, at least o …

Remote file downloading examples for TOPS-10

VCFed about 6 months ago

All -- Back in this thread (DEC-10: connecting remote sites and usage in 20HAL) from a few years ago, I mentioned reverse engineering an old tool used during the development of MS-DOS 1 and the IBM-PC (described on my web site here). I've made much progre …
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New Releases • Free Release - Tristam Island by Hugo Labrannded just Updated Minimum Price to $0.00

Lemon64 about 6 months ago

https://hlabrande.itch.io/... Author:After crashing your plane at sea, you end up drifting to a small island, with not much to survive. You explore, and find out the island was inhabited, years ago. But why did the people leave? And why is th …

Test Computer Problems

VCFed about 6 months ago

Hi, I had a test computer built for me, but I'm having issues with it. It's a 386 computer and I have the ability to select either DOS or Windows XP. I'm currently running under DOS to check out some older floppy disks. The computer has a 5 1/4" di …

Need Help Creating MS DOS 6.22 Boot Disks

VCFed about 6 months ago

I have just purchased, a Tandy 1400LT and I would like to run DOS 6.22 on it since I would like to have the most up to date dos and I would like to play around with Zip Disks and other storage media that DOS 3.2 won't support. I know 6.22 cannot fit on one …

Reading files from DEC Rainbow drive image

VCFed about 6 months ago

I read the ST-412 (RD51) drive into a sector image using Dave Gesswein's mfmemu and would like to loop mount the MSDOS partition under Linux and read out the files. So far I've been able to decipher the Rainbow partitioning scheme (described in the DEC MS …

Rainbow 100 Hard-disk partition scheme?

VCFed about 6 months ago

I have a failing ST-412 in my Rainbow 100B and would rather not lose the files that came on it. Today I was able to read a sector data image from it using a Gesswein mfmemu. However I cannot figure out how to loop mount the partitions on a Linux system a …

32-bit acorn software: classic games • Decent PD, Freeware, Shareware Games?

Stardot about 6 months ago

Below are some of my favourites, please feel free to suggest more (including cover disk exclusive games).Ace Crusader - decent Defender clone with end of stage bosses - below average graphics but plays pretty wellShangai - the version by Julian Jiggi …

"My Documents" as system icon under Windows 95

VCFed about 6 months ago

I use Windows 95OSR2.1 on my 486 and I would like to add a "system icon" (like "My Computer","Network Neighborhood") to my Desktop and Explorer trees which opens "C:\My Documents" folder, similar to the later impleme …