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Ist vermutlich auch nur eine weitere dieser billigen 90er-Jahre Spiele-Sammlungen für MS-DOS, aber vielleicht hat ja hier auch jemand Verwendung und Nostalgie für diese Diskette.

Im Unterschied zur anderen "4-PC-Super-Spiele" Diskette hat diese hier nun ein weißes Label. Enthalten sind die Spiele "Megadschump", "Wari", Brix 3 Superlogic" und "The Incredible Adventures of Mad Mac". Wahnsinn!

archive.org/details/4_pc-super

Viel Spaß! 😜

Created a brand-new 86Box system, custom made for MS-DOS 3.31 and Windows/386 2.11.

This is using a 386 CPU with 4 megs of RAM, Trident TVGA 8900D graphics and a 120MB WDAC2120 harddisk. Everything seems to be pretty compatible and works without issues, running in 386 enhanced mode. Including the latest and greatest MS Word 1.1a and Excel 2.1d.

I ran into a few issues with Windows 2.x and later versions of MS-DOS, so I figured I should simply install an older version of MS-DOS. Version 3.31 seemed appropriate, because it supports harddisks larger than 32MB.

Easier said than done, because - as a surprise to me - this version of DOS apparently didn't even have a setup program. You have to do everything yourself: FDISK, FORMAT, SYS,... you even have to copy COMMAND.COM from A: to C: by hand. Simpler times!

Just casually playing with old #ham #msdos #packetradio software #GraphicPacket, my favorite in the 90's, in a #DosBoxX window.

I'm thrown 30 years back and thrilled to have managed to make it work with a #KISS modem and #TFKISS resident driver (a NordLink TNC2 "TheFirmware" emulator for MSDOS).

Btw, I am preaparing some real hardware (Pentium 233) to make that work on, with a legendary 1200 bauds packet-radio #BayCom modem...

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@fozztexx This looks promising en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DriveSpa

You will probably need an older Linux distribution (Debian Potato, perhaps; it used 2.0/2.2) but you could probably run that in a VM, extract the files to a more modern file system, and then transfer that via a more modern system.

Bit of work, but should definitely be possible.

en.wikipedia.orgDriveSpace - Wikipedia

Is there a way in #Linux to mount a DOS disk that was compressed with DoubleSpace? The 40MB hard drive that was in my Toshiba T5200 was compressed that way and I was able to ddrescue it back in November, but all I found on the DOS partition was a great big 39.9MB file called DBLSPACE.000.

#MSDOS #RetroComputing #VintageComputing

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Back in 1992, when releasing Windows 3.1, Microsoft chose to remove the game "Reversi" from the system. So, today, while sorting through various versions of Windows 3.0, I am also checking out the different revisions of REVERSI.EXE.

Interestingly, there's an upgraded (grey) version of Reversi for Windows 3.1, which seems to be no longer compatible with the original Windows 3.0 or 3.00a. When I tried to run it, it just threw an error message in my face.

Another bad retro diskette! At first glance, this one seemed pretty much gone. None of my disk imaging tools were able to read it. Windows Explorer just crashed.

Only a low level KryoFlux dump managed to uncover the physical cause behind this: A corrupt root directory beyond any chance of repair. Luckily, both the file allocation tables as well as most of the data clusters were still in good shape. I used a hex editor to manually recover all the files from the valid tracks. It worked!

I guess these games are nothing special, but it still made me happy to pull usable data and working files from such a destroyed file system!

I just sacrificed another 86Box VM and ran a quick install of "Windows 3.0 with Multimedia Extensions".

This was Microsoft's first version of Windows to support soundcards out of the box. You even get asked about your card's IRQs and MIDI ports during setup. For the first time, this came with several multimedia programs, like the "Sound Recorder" or the famous "Media Player". Even an Alarm Clock!

After watching some very interesting videos about the "History of Windows" last night, I got a little curious and installed a copy of Windows 3.00a onto one of my virtual machines. Back in 1993, my first PC already came preinstalled with a modern Windows 3.1, so this is something new to me.

On the one hand, the system does look familiar, but on the other hand... everything looks a bit "off". Mostly the colours. But, so far, everything seems to be working just fine. At this time, Windows still lacked any kind of multimedia software, so there's no Sound Recorder or Media Player yet. But, as a nice bonus, they still included the "MS-DOS Executive", so you can make it look and feel very close to Windows 2.x.

Unfortunately, unlike WIndows 3.1 or 3.11, there has never been a Y2K patch for Windows 3.0, so its usefulness, even within an emulator, is a bit limited.