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Tyler K. Nothing<p>I’m definitely a fan of <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a>, but my allegiance clearly lies with <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> rather than <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a>. My old PCs run <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> or <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Haiku</span></a>, but I get what retro <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Windows</span></a> peeps want. So, if you want to install <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Windows98" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Windows98</span></a> quickly, here you go. <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/howto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>howto</span></a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/utilities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>utilities</span></a> <a href="https://boingboing.net/2025/03/31/how-to-install-windows-98-asap.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">boingboing.net/2025/03/31/how-</span><span class="invisible">to-install-windows-98-asap.html</span></a></p>
Ethan Black<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@256" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>256</span></a></span> I can only imagine how cool it would look to have a 9-monitor <a href="https://social.librem.one/tags/Windows98" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Windows98</span></a> setup with CRTs of different sizes, in a half-organized manner (like the setup in <a href="https://social.librem.one/tags/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs</span></a>)</p>
Kazy.EXE 💾 :connection_apng:<p>Picked up one of those GBA shaped retro handhelds and had to do what I do and immediately made a Windows 98 theme for it. <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/retrohandheld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrohandheld</span></a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/windows98" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>windows98</span></a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/gameboy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gameboy</span></a></p>
James | PixelRefresh.com<p>It's 1996... On your Windows 95 computer, a warning appears when starting a game that says...</p><p>"You appear to have Dial-Up Networking enabled.</p><p>For best performance, you should exit Road Rash and disable Dial-Up Networking."</p><p>Of all the things to be asked to disable for performance 🤣</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrogaming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/roadrash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>roadrash</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/windows95" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>windows95</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/windows98" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>windows98</span></a></p>
Cainmark Does Not Comply 🚲<p>Finally copied it all, saved to my own laptop and left with hers for her to copy.</p><p>I'm sure others would have an easier way to this, but I felt accomplished that I got it done.</p><p>6/6</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/z_lib" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>z_lib</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Software</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/qa_computer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>qa_computer</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/computer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>computer</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Windows98" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Windows98</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PuppyLinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PuppyLinux</span></a></p>
Cainmark Does Not Comply 🚲<p>Couldn't find the hardware detection program so turned it off and on again. Hardware detected, searched for driver on that CD.</p><p>Not found.</p><p>Huh?</p><p>Oh.</p><p>Copied to hard drive and ran as executable and searched again.</p><p>Winner!</p><p>I ❤️ love love The Internet Archive!</p><p>Tried to copy and nothing would copy. Then realized I was trying to copy on wrong part of the USB drive.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/z_lib" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>z_lib</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Software</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/qa_computer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>qa_computer</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/computer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>computer</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Windows98" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Windows98</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PuppyLinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PuppyLinux</span></a></p><p>5/6</p>
Cainmark Does Not Comply 🚲<p>Turned it off.</p><p>And remembered the Internet Archive <a href="https://archive.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Maybe they had older drivers?</p><p>Searched and used CTL-F to search for USB mentions in each old Windows98 page I used. Downloaded a few that might have it.</p><p>Found one that seemed promising.</p><p>Extracted it on my current laptop. Burned it to CD.</p><p>Copied from CD to Windows98.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/z_lib" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>z_lib</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Software</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/qa_computer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>qa_computer</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/computer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>computer</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Windows98" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Windows98</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PuppyLinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PuppyLinux</span></a></p><p>4/6</p>
Cainmark Does Not Comply 🚲<p>And remembered the Internet Archive&nbsp;<a href="https://archive.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Maybe they had older drivers?</p><p>Searched and used CTL-F to search for USB mentions in each old Windows98 page I used. Downloaded a few that might have it.</p><p>Found one that seemed promising.</p><p>Extracted it on my current laptop. Burned it to CD.</p><p>Copied from CD to Windows98.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/z_lib" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>z_lib</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Software</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/qa_computer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>qa_computer</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/computer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>computer</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Windows98" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Windows98</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PuppyLinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PuppyLinux</span></a></p><p>5/?</p>
Cainmark Does Not Comply 🚲<p>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.</p><p>Turned it off and on again, hoping Puppy Linux would detect it.</p><p>Nope.</p><p>Turned it off and on again, hoping Windows98 would detect it.</p><p>Yes!</p><p>But no driver!</p><p>Oh, fiddlesticks.</p><p>Maybe I could get a USB 3.5 floppy to USB reader? Or take it to a computer repair place?</p><p>Turned it off.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/z_lib" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>z_lib</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Software</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/qa_computer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>qa_computer</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/computer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>computer</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Windows98" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Windows98</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PuppyLinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PuppyLinux</span></a></p><p>3/6</p>
Cainmark Does Not Comply 🚲<p>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.</p><p>Then I found older USB Flash drives. I found one that was only 512mb and thought that maybe it could be read.</p><p>Couldn't be found in Puppy Linux. Windows98 didn't find it.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/z_lib" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>z_lib</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Software</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/qa_computer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>qa_computer</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/computer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>computer</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Windows98" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Windows98</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PuppyLinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PuppyLinux</span></a></p><p>2/6</p>
Cainmark Does Not Comply 🚲<p>Long thread. 🧵 </p><p>Found old 3.5 floppy 💾 disk.. 20 unused, 3 of my wife's used. One of them with old family recipes on it.</p><p>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.</p><p>Floppy drive worked.</p><p>Oh, this should be easy.</p><p>Tried to burn a copy of her floppies to a CD. Kept failing. Copied to the hard drive in both OSes.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/z_lib" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>z_lib</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Software</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/qa_computer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>qa_computer</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/computer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>computer</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Windows98" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Windows98</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PuppyLinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PuppyLinux</span></a></p><p>1/6</p>
Tobias HellgrenHere is some more <a href="https://pixelfed.chuggybumba.com/discover/tags/HardwarePorn?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HardwarePorn</a> of <a href="https://pixelfed.chuggybumba.com/discover/tags/BeigeMachines?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BeigeMachines</a>!<br> <br> Dell Dimension XPS D233<br> CPU - Intel Pentium II 333MHz<br> RAM - 512MB<br> HDD - 16GB SD (using OnTrack 9.57)<br> GFX - Nvidia Riva 128 (STB Velocity 128 3D AGP)<br> CD - Toshiba XM-6202B<br> ETH - 3Com Etherlink III (3c509b)<br> SND - ESS1868 Audiodrive<br> OS - Windows 98SE<br> <br> <a href="https://pixelfed.chuggybumba.com/discover/tags/Windows98?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Windows98</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.chuggybumba.com/discover/tags/RetroComputing?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RetroComputing</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.chuggybumba.com/discover/tags/DellDimension?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DellDimension</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.chuggybumba.com/discover/tags/PentiumII?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PentiumII</a>
James | PixelRefresh.com<p>My retro Windows 98 computer is complete.</p><p>Finished off with an Iomega 250mb zip drive.</p><p>AMD Athlon 2000+<br>512MB RAM<br>128GB IDE to Micro SD<br>2x Voodoo 12mb SLI graphics cards<br>Matrox Mystique 220 (2D/3D)<br>SoundBlaster Live! Platinum 5.1<br>Yamaha SW1000XG</p><p>It's been a really fun build!</p><p>Beige is beautiful!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrogaming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/3dfx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>3dfx</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/windows98" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>windows98</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/iomega" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>iomega</span></a></p>
ComradeVlast<p>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.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/techquestions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>techquestions</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fileformats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fileformats</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/abandonware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>abandonware</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/windows98" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>windows98</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/techie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>techie</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oldtech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oldtech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a></p>
Manuel 'HonkHase' Atug<p>"mit FOCUS online. „Viele sagen dann: Das geht ja noch, das ist nicht kaputt, das kann man weiterbenutzen.“</p><p>Atug spricht aus Erfahrung: „Es gibt <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/medizin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>medizin</span></a>'ische Geräte, die noch mit <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Windows98" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Windows98</span></a> laufen.“</p><p>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..."</p>
vga256<p>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</p><p>does anyone in the digital preservation world know someone at the Microsoft Open Source Programs (OSPO) office?<br>i'd love for this to be officially sanctioned as an OSS project.</p><p><a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/digitpres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>digitpres</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/softwarePreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>softwarePreservation</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/windows98" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>windows98</span></a></p>
James | PixelRefresh.com<p>There is something oddly satisfying and dare I say therapeutic defragmenting a mechanical hard drive on Windows 98.</p><p>How many of you have carefully watched the progress as the churn and crunch of the drive is heard?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/defrag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>defrag</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/windows98" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>windows98</span></a></p>
Anopka<p>Someone should build a Luanti (Minetest) version of the famous Windows 98 3D-Maze screensaver 😃 </p><p><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Minetest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Minetest</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Luanti" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Luanti</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Voxelibre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Voxelibre</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Windows98" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Windows98</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/screensaver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>screensaver</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/maze" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maze</span></a></p>
SuperIlu<p>I just released v1.13.0 of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DOjS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOjS</span></a> on <a href="https://github.com/SuperIlu/DOjS/releases/tag/v1.130" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/SuperIlu/DOjS/relea</span><span class="invisible">ses/tag/v1.130</span></a></p><p>This is the first version with a native win32 port (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Windows98" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Windows98</span></a> or never).</p><p>See thread below for more release details!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MSDOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MSDOS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DOSGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOSGaming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JavaScript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JavaScript</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreeDOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeDOS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/creativecoding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>creativecoding</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/p5js" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>p5js</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrodev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrodev</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrodevelopment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrodevelopment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/3dfx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>3dfx</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenGL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenGL</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Processing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Processing</span></a> <br>1/</p>
Amin Girasol<p>I finally got a <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/CompactFlash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CompactFlash</span></a> to <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/IDE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IDE</span></a> adapter working in my gorgeous and rugged <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/IBM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IBM</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Thinkpad760CD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Thinkpad760CD</span></a> from 1996! The IDE disk continues to work beautifully, but using CF gives me more options to quickly switch operating systems. </p><p>I'd <code>ddrescu</code>ed the IDE disk at various points along the way as I experimented with <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/MSDOS622" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MSDOS622</span></a>, <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Windows98" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Windows98</span></a> and finally most recently and most successfully, <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/WindowsNT4" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WindowsNT4</span></a>.</p><p>I wrote those images to CF cards but bloody hell I dunno how many times I faced the dreaded error 174 early in POST (which indicates "no hard disk detected") while trying out different Compact Flash cards and adapters. </p><p>I finally hit on the right combination today, quite by accident, as I probably moved a jumper on one of the adapters that had failed for me before. This after very close reading of the Thinkpad Legacy Hardware forum on <a href="https://forum.thinkpads.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">forum.thinkpads.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>This CF card is a little bit faster than the original disk; I'd just picked the first 2GB one I found in my collection. I have benchmarked all of them so the next OS will go on the fastest one I can find. Probably an ancient Linux or IBM OS/2 Warp 4.</p><p>It's hard to describe the satisfaction of getting old kit like this working again! <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a></p>