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Tech Addicts 2025 – Vibes of a Vinyl Revival
Gareth and Ted are back with news of Vinyl records hitting the high street big time, the Retroid Flip 2, Gadhouse’s Cosmo Solar Edition portable turntable and a scam involving YouTube
https://garethmyles.com/tech-addicts-2025-vibes-of-a-vinyl-revival/
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Finally copied it all, saved to my own laptop and left with hers for her to copy.
I'm sure others would have an easier way to this, but I felt accomplished that I got it done.
6/6
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Couldn't find the hardware detection program so turned it off and on again. Hardware detected, searched for driver on that CD.
Not found.
Huh?
Oh.
Copied to hard drive and ran as executable and searched again.
Winner!
I 
love love The Internet Archive!
Tried to copy and nothing would copy. Then realized I was trying to copy on wrong part of the USB drive.
#z_lib #Software #qa_computer #computer #Windows98 #PuppyLinux
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Turned it off.
And remembered the Internet Archive https://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 https://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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So tried to copy to USB in the USB port in the back. No USB Flash drives could be read. And I don't have a floppy drive in my current desktop or laptop.
Then I found older USB Flash drives. I found one that was only 512mb and thought that maybe it could be read.
Couldn't be found in Puppy Linux. Windows98 didn't find it.
#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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Here is some more #HardwarePorn of #BeigeMachines!
Dell Dimension XPS D233
CPU - Intel Pentium II 333MHz
RAM - 512MB
HDD - 16GB SD (using OnTrack 9.57)
GFX - Nvidia Riva 128 (STB Velocity 128 3D AGP)
CD - Toshiba XM-6202B
ETH - 3Com Etherlink III (3c509b)
SND - ESS1868 Audiodrive
OS - Windows 98SE
#Windows98 #RetroComputing #DellDimension #PentiumII
Dell Dimension XPS D233
CPU - Intel Pentium II 333MHz
RAM - 512MB
HDD - 16GB SD (using OnTrack 9.57)
GFX - Nvidia Riva 128 (STB Velocity 128 3D AGP)
CD - Toshiba XM-6202B
ETH - 3Com Etherlink III (3c509b)
SND - ESS1868 Audiodrive
OS - Windows 98SE
#Windows98 #RetroComputing #DellDimension #PentiumII
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.
Got a Retro Computing question:
Do you have a recommendation for a printer that would reliably work with Windows 98? Grey-scale laser printer is okay.
#retro #retrocomputing #Windows98 #printer
Do you have a recommendation for a printer that would reliably work with Windows 98? Grey-scale laser printer is okay.
#retro #retrocomputing #Windows98 #printer
Right, I have my retro PC setup with what would have been my rig back in the 90s...
- Windows 98
- Matrox Mystique 220 (with Rainbow Runner)
- 2x 3dfx Voodoo 2 in SLI
- SoundBlaster Live
What should I play after Unreal and Unreal Tournament that will make use of those lovely Voodoo 2 cards?
Let's share some nostalgia!
All you who played weird games on #Windows98 back in the day: Do you have any shareware or freeware/public domain games you can recommend? Not abandonware or the like, the games should be small and released for sharing.
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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..."
Minecraft java sur Windows 98.
A person who takes their job very seriously in Shogo Mobile Armor Division.
Originally released in 1998, having a blast from the past on my 3dfx Voodoo 2 and Windows 98.
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.
Hey #retrogaming users ! I'm trying to clone my fresh working #Windows98 setup using Acronis on exactly the same drive (tested OK several times), but it keeps corrupting the data and Windows won't boot (never happened to me, after 10y of using Acronis). Would #Clonezilla do the trick ?
There is something oddly satisfying and dare I say therapeutic defragmenting a mechanical hard drive on Windows 98.
How many of you have carefully watched the progress as the churn and crunch of the drive is heard?