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Turned it off.

And remembered the Internet Archive archive.org

Maybe they had older drivers?

Searched and used CTL-F to search for USB mentions in each old Windows98 page I used. Downloaded a few that might have it.

Found one that seemed promising.

Extracted it on my current laptop. Burned it to CD.

Copied from CD to Windows98.

#z_lib #Software #qa_computer #computer #Windows98 #PuppyLinux

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archive.orgInternet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

And remembered the Internet Archive archive.org

Maybe they had older drivers?

Searched and used CTL-F to search for USB mentions in each old Windows98 page I used. Downloaded a few that might have it.

Found one that seemed promising.

Extracted it on my current laptop. Burned it to CD.

Copied from CD to Windows98.

#z_lib #Software #qa_computer #computer #Windows98 #PuppyLinux

5/?

archive.orgInternet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
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So I tried the wifi dongle to connect to wireless. Probably too old to connect to modern wifi. Got an ethernet cord out. No ethernet port to connect.

Turned it off and on again, hoping Puppy Linux would detect it.

Nope.

Turned it off and on again, hoping Windows98 would detect it.

Yes!

But no driver!

Oh, fiddlesticks.

Maybe I could get a USB 3.5 floppy to USB reader? Or take it to a computer repair place?

Turned it off.

#z_lib #Software #qa_computer #computer #Windows98 #PuppyLinux

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Long thread. 🧵

Found old 3.5 floppy 💾 disk.. 20 unused, 3 of my wife's used. One of them with old family recipes on it.

Then found an old laptop, a Toshiba Satellite 320cdt I'd forgotten I'd had. Windows98 and a version of Puppy GNU/Linux on it.

Floppy drive worked.

Oh, this should be easy.

Tried to burn a copy of her floppies to a CD. Kept failing. Copied to the hard drive in both OSes.

#z_lib #Software #qa_computer #computer #Windows98 #PuppyLinux

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Looking for some more advanced techies to help me out here. I was browsing the files of old abandonware (as one does) and came across the .zym file format in a game called Gubble 2. Does anyone have any idea what this file format is? Is it something proprietary by the gubble devs? Something that just isn't used anymore? The only thing google brought up regarding .zym was some mods for quake.

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"mit FOCUS online. „Viele sagen dann: Das geht ja noch, das ist nicht kaputt, das kann man weiterbenutzen.“

Atug spricht aus Erfahrung: „Es gibt #medizin'ische Geräte, die noch mit #Windows98 laufen.“

Bemerkenswert ist die Reaktion des Bundesministeriums für Digitales und Verkehr auf eine Frage vom 19. Dezember, wie man mit dem Support-Ende von Windows 10 umgehe. Darin heißt es, man könne die Frage nicht beantworten..."

urgh. after a week of very interesting research and digging, i've located the source code for a very popular 3d rendering/modelling program from the 90s and 2000s: Caligari trueSpace

does anyone in the digital preservation world know someone at the Microsoft Open Source Programs (OSPO) office?
i'd love for this to be officially sanctioned as an OSS project.