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Software • A good terminal emulator?

Tatung Forum about 1 month ago

I'm not sure when I developed a masochistic need to "keep things authentic" and avoid sensible solutions like goteks, but now with a homebrew serial cable and EinTrans happily running under Wine in Windows 98 mode I am able to create some disks for my Alb …

What do you like for benchmarking drive speeds on windows 98?

VCFed about 3 months ago

I've been thinking a lot about storage interfaces recently. My retro 98 PC has both a fast CF to IDE and a SD to IDE just as part of the setup. Today o was going through my parts boxes and found a nice u160 SCSI drive and PCI controller card. I've also got …
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Please help me with my rare Toshiba libretto 30CTK

VCFed about 3 months ago

Hello! Someone at work gave me this Toshiba Libretto 30CTK for free I'm trying to get it to work. It doesn't boot. It doesn't see the HDD. So i thought... okay, the hard drive is broken. But its not. I connected it via an adapter to my windows deskto …

Blue-screen when updating USB drivers, win98

VCFed about 3 months ago

I bought a lovely little pentium II from the consignment area at VCFSoCal which I plan to use as a DOS gaming system. It came with win98 preloaded on a spinning disk which I want to keep. Now I don't know if it was like this on first boot, but at present t …

Help finding ram for my Satellite 335CDS

VCFed about 3 months ago

I'm putting out a bit of a cry of help, I've got this Toshiba Satellite 335 CDS, runs great, but 32mb of ram on windows 98 isn't going to cut it. I've looked it up, and it can go up to 160mb, with a 128mb stick. Though, finding this stick for a resonable p …

Need help wit BlueSCSI

VCFed about 3 months ago

Trying to figure out why my BlueSCSI is not working. (Not sure the version but it's an STM controller) Pentium 133 MoBo running Windows 98. Tried two different SCSI cards: Adaptec AHA-1510A(ISA) and AHA-2930 (PCI) The images are mounting ok according t …

Need help with BlueSCSI

VCFed about 3 months ago

Trying to figure out why my BlueSCSI is not working. (Not sure the version but it's an STM controller) Pentium 133 MoBo running Windows 98. Tried two different SCSI cards: Adaptec AHA-1510A(ISA) and AHA-2930 (PCI) The images are mounting ok according t …

Comm Port Troubles GA-5486AL

VCFed about 3 months ago

Hi, I got this board: ... GA-5486AL G... GA-5486AL is a motherboard based on the ALi M1489/87 (FinALi-486 PCI Chipset) chipset. Get specs, BIOS, documentation and more! ... …
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Win98 Extended Memory

VCFed about 3 months ago

So I was put on a data recovery mission recently where I needed to pull the data off an IDE drive. Remarkably simple, I happened to have an old Intel Atom motherboard with an IDE connector on it and Win98 booted right up! Or it almost did. First I was …

Does anyone know where I can Find restore CD images for my late 90's P3 Dell Latitude CPX-J laptop?

VCFed about 4 months ago

My pentium /// 550mhz Dell Latitude laptop is getting long in the tooth. I have been running linux on it for years now but its not really to useful for that anymore either. I was using it for ADTPro disk transfers for Apple II systems but honestly my HP mo …

iSCSI on Windows 98 ? [Microsoft iSCSI Software Initiator 1.x versions]

VCFed about 4 months ago

Folks, I love ramming my head into the wall because it feels so good when I stop... Does Win98 support iSCSI? Were any PCI iSCSI HBA released with W98 support [maybe an M$ iSCSI Software Initiator included] ? Does iSCSI Bridging eliminate the need for an i …

PCI parallel port card / Windows 98

VCFed about 4 months ago

I am in moderate need of a 2nd LPT port on my Win98 box. I tried a cheap card off ebay based on the WCH CH351 chip set. While "something" was installed that vaguely resembled an emulated LPT port, I could never make it work. Seems like legacy …

Win98 on P4 systems: COM ports not working

VCFed about 4 months ago

I'm looking for some help to debug an issue I have seen twice now on 2 separate hardware. I am trying to run Laplink from a windows 98 machine to an old 8088 laptop, using serial transfer. I have two different Pentium 4 class systems, both with windows 9 …

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 …

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 …

"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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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) …

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 …

Windows 98 / serial / Laplink??

VCFed about 8 months ago

Hi, I have a Pentium 4 box loaded with Windows 98, to act as a tweener. The W98 box is on my home network, and I want to use it to transfer files from the outside world to my old machines. I've come across a strange issue and looking for feedback. The is …

FS: Matrox Marvel G400-TV video card

VCFed about 8 months ago

This is an AGP card that includes a connector box that has A/V in and out (S-Video, composite & stereo) plus coax input for analog TV. Original owner and it was used successfully on an ASUS P2B-B motherboard under Windows 98. Manuals, connector box, …

triple boot windows 98 windows 2k and freedos

VCFed about 8 months ago

What at first seems like something easy to archive turns to be quite hard to do. Have this configuration drive number 2 - partition 1 windows 98se partition 2 windows 2000 drive number 1 - Freedos 7 now on drive 2 have the …