Caz @caz@computerfairi.es

Journey to replace my broken 98 rig (part 2/?): More troubles. My USB keyboard works in bios settings, but stops working when my cdrom boots up an installer. However if I use a live installer like KollibreOS the keyboard works again once it fully boots into the operating system. Unfortunately my only ps/2 keyboard is dead, and I can't find any USB compatibility mode settings in the bios.

Journey to replace my broken 98 rig (part 1/?):
My new motherboard came in the mail. By some bizarre fuck up, the label for power switch was labeled completely wrong in the motherboard, but somehow right in the manual. At least it powers on now!

Sometimes when you test software on a virtual machine, you don't touch it for a while and forget what you installed. What the fuck am I looking at?

@pango Appreciate it! Unfortunately, when I looked there earlier I found nothing. I'm going to give up for now.

@mavica_again Thanks, I wasn't aware of that! My main tool of choice is usually: mmnt.ru/int/ and unfortunately, neither of these can find the program. It's called CycleDial https://web.archive.org/web/19970221223958/http://www.walusoft.co.uk/page5.htm

Specifically the ibmpc section, currently not interested in acorn stuff, I'm looking for a Windows 95 program.

Do any of you know where a backup of demon.co.uk's FTP server may be?
#retrocomputing

I have 3 computers capable of burning CDs:
1. A Broken Pentium III Dell that goes through power supplies like water filters.
2. A Powermac G4 that currently cant recognize it's hard drive
3. A Thinkpad T430 that despite everything I put it through, it always turns on and does it's thing as long as it has an SSD.

Guess which one I almost always have to rely on to burn a CD?

@nazokiyoubinbou By classic I'm thinking 1.0 to XP. I don't want to gatekeep.

I really hope someday we can have a #microsoftober where we celebrate Microsoft's operating system from hell: Classic Windows.
Not only do we do cool stuff with our windows installs, but we make Halloween "Windows Plus!" Themes and change our bluescreens into Halloween colors. #retrocomputing

@arielmt Thanks! Unfortunately the only website that had my adapter available and in stock was so broken it kept getting my billing information wrong. Glad to know an adapter exists somewhere on this planet though.

@salith I'm sorry. That's never easy, even if they lived a long life. :(

Take care of yourself.

Hey #retrocomputing did anyone ever make a converter for the proprietary PSU slots on those old 90s dell motherboards?

@cuddle I'd test the advice I got in a reply about using retrozilla...but my old 98 rig just died on me. 🫠

My only Windows 98 computer just died on me... for the second time. I really wish those old dells didn't use proprietary PSUs, then I could easily put in a new one.

I just had a "fun" realization that despite collecting old computers, I hate all the companies who made them.

I guess what I'm into is what they brought to society. I'm interested in all the contributions people made to the world of computers. The fun we had on them. The usefulness they still potentially have. The long nights programmers spent writing code for to make a program that people used for a little while, then sadly discarded.

That is why I hunt for old programs.