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Vintage software diskettes and CDs

VCFed about 6 months ago

I'm looking to get rid of a collection of software installation disks dating to the mid 1990s. Before just tossing them in the trash, I'm exploring whether anyone collects such treasures. I see some of this software is being sold via eBay, but I wonder i …
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Chit Chat • Unpreserved games: Have you played any?

Lemon64 about 6 months ago

In my case as a CPC/MS-DOS/PS1/PS2 guy, I have the good or bad luck of having played one MIA game (Missing in Action, games that were never preserved).But it was probably a homebrew game that was basically very close to many other games but with a few var …

IBM ISA 16 BIT 16/4 Token Ring Adapter issues

VCFed about 7 months ago

Hi guys, Has anyone setup the IBM ISA 16 BIT 16/4 Token Ring Adapter under MSDOS? I'm trying to use the IBM local area network support program 1.1 (DXMA0MOD.SYS and DXMC0MOD.SYS in my config.sys) which I used with my 8bit ISA Token Ring network adapter but …

Crimbo - A remake of the ZX Spectrum game for MS-DOS by Jvdw007

Indie Retro News about 7 months ago

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(msdos) how to get the most out of floppies with bad sectors

VCFed about 7 months ago

Hi everyone, I have a done quite a few repairs but I have never tried to repair floppies. I know that there is an entire community around preserving vintage floppies, with specific tools that I have never used, one of which with 'flux' in the name,iirc …
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Anniversary: Sam & Max: Hit The Road Turns 30 This Month

Time Extension about 7 months ago

"You're an ignorant dolt, Max".Sam & Max: Hit the Road, one of LucasArts' most beloved point-and-click adventures, is 30 years old this month (thanks, @Bhaal_Spawn).Based on Steve Purcell's anthropomorphic detective duo, the game launched on MS-DOS in …
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Cinemaware's Rocket Ranger Is Coming To Atari Jaguar 35 Years Later

Time Extension about 7 months ago

Take to the skies!Atari Age has announced that Rocket Ranger, Cinemaware's action-adventure game inspired by The Rocketeer comics, is getting a port for the Atari Jaguar that will be arriving on its store.Originally released in 1988 for the Commodore Amiga …

8-bit acorn software: other • DFS explorer, is it still active

Stardot about 7 months ago

Hello GuysDFS EXPLORERI purchased this program years ago to allow file management between the BBC and pc when working with SSD It’s a useful program albeit it no longer works due to the serial being linked to the computer hardware it was purchased for, …

FS: Compaq Armada E500 Windows 98 Laptop

VCFed about 7 months ago

have for sale a Compaq Armada E500 in very good to excellent condition. The system has the following specs: -500MHz Pentium III CPU -30GB hard drive -256MB of RAM -3Com PCMCIA ethernet card with dongle -AC adapter -main battery (holds a charge but needs to …

IBM Thinkpad T42 -- $20 or for trade

VCFed about 7 months ago

Intel Pentium M, 1.80ghz 512mb RAM 60gb hard disk The system comes from around 2005. It's in decent condition, everything is functional except for the battery. The battery is effectively dead; it lasts only a minute or two. You'll need to run the compute …
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Gateway Pentium 4 ATX power supply with -5 volt?

VCFed about 7 months ago

Hi, thanks for being here Tried to boot this barn find of a PC, came up with 768MB RAM running Windows XP Black edition! Did not run long, OTOH. I immediately suspected the power supply, and will try others, starting with the one that came with it in a cu …

PC 486SX (ao486) • etherdfs-client and MS-DOS 6.22 on PC 486SX!

MISTerFPGA about 7 months ago

Hi!I've downloaded the official Dos Tools for networking on AO486 core here https://github.com/MiSTer-d... ... s_ftpd.zip.In AO486 I've installed MS-DOS 6.22 on a VHD partition, I've launched PPPDD.EXE and I've got correctly a 192.168.1.254 ip on …

Windows 2.x Installation Disk/Files

VCFed about 7 months ago

So, here is my conundrum, I have a 286 computer, with ms-dos installed. I want to however, also install Windows 2.x, preferable Windows 2.1, windows/286 onto as a "graphical" interface. I originally wanted to download some windows 2.1 files onli …

Compaq LTE 5400 Issues

VCFed about 7 months ago

I have a Compaq LTE 5400 laptop I bought in 2014. This laptop is running Windows 98 SE. I am having a few issues however, attempting to try and transfer files over to my modern PC. I'd like to send over a word document over! Issue 1 - I've tried to burn …
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Games • Is Bruce Lee the only game where player 2 can control the "bad guys" while player 1 completes the levels?

Lemon64 about 7 months ago

Hey guys, I'm mostly a CPC/MS-DOS/PS1 fan from Spain, but I appreaciate all retro platforms. I believe the true war should be retro Vs. modern. I created this account to ask this question here as this seems a very active forum and Bruce Lee came out for m …
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Help & Support • Read MS-DOS disk with 1571 and zoomfloppy

Lemon64 about 8 months ago

Hi. I wanted to image some old MS-DOS 5.25" diskettes using kryoflux but found out that my disk drive has died.I understand the 1571 can read MS-DOS disks. Is it possible somehow to use that drive for imaging, in combination with zoomfloppy? I tried nibre …

CF PCMCIA card makes sound choppy

VCFed about 8 months ago

Hello! I installed a CF PCMCIA adapter to my Compaq LTE 5300 laptop and it makes sound from internal sound blaster compatible card choppy. Even in MS-DOS mode. Is it normal? How to fix it? …

retro-computing.com Windows 3.x Software Archives Fully Populated!

VCFed about 8 months ago

A while ago I posted here to introduce retro-computing.com, a new software repository and blog covering the full gamut of retro-computing, from the 6502 to Pentium IV (from Apple GS/OS to Microsoft Windows ME, and everything in between). At the time of my …

BIOS dump for Dell Latitude CPI-A 300XT?

VCFed about 8 months ago

Edit: The model is CPi-A 300ST, not X. From what I gather the only difference is in the display size, so it probably doesn't matter. (crossposted to VOGONS) …

Artisoft "The Network Eye" / tne.exe; what was it?

VCFed about 8 months ago

I've seen a reference to an app called "The Network Eye", aka tne.exe; apparantly it was a remote control program for MSDOS systems. Anyone have any information on it? Can't find anything else beyond a passing mention... …

Do you think Tim Patterson infringed on DRI's rights with QDOS/MSDOS?

VCFed about 8 months ago

Those of you who used CP/M and then used MS-DOS, I wondered what your opinion on this was? From the books I've read and the interviews I've seen with Tim, I do not think that he copied any CP/M code into QDos. However, Gary Kildall threatened IBM with a la …

Sekonic SPL450 Pen Plotter

VCFed about 8 months ago

Hi everyone, I just hijacked an old thread about this issue but i think its best i create a new one! I have a Sekonic SPL450 plotter that i am trying to get working with Windows XP so it can be displayed at a museum i volunteer at. Its proving tricky! T …
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Discovering R.B.I. Baseball on NES

Retro Arcadia about 8 months ago

I regularly come up with stuff here I say I’ll come back to and look at it more detail sometime later, and do you know what? Sooner or later I generally do! Either a man of my word or it just saves me thinking what’s next, take your pick! Let me give …

CP/M floppy trying to transfer using 22DISK

VCFed about 8 months ago

I have 5.25 by Elephant No 92-170 double sided double density soft sector Dennison Carter that needs to be transferred to Windows 10 Have Windows 98 with 22DISK running, while selecting in the menu type of diskette can find the right one. Advise will be a …

Linksys WPC11 and Compaq LTE 5300 for WiFi

VCFed about 8 months ago

Hello! I am trying to connect to Wi-Fi on my Win98 SE laptop Compaq LTE 5300 and I got Linksys WPC11 ver 4 PCMCIA card. Unfortunately, even power led is not on when I insert it into the slot and Win98 says slot is free. I have another PCMCIA card adapter …