After looking through several CD-ROMs, I guess I finallly found the best version of the Soundblaster 16 driver for DOS, Windows 3.1 or Windows 95. Here it is installing on my 25MHz COMPAQ Deskpro 386. 😉
https://archive.org/details/sb-16
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Is anyone still familiar with this photo editing classic from 1997? "Kai's Photo Soap"... for Windows 95. I've had this as a young student back in the day... And I remember wasting a lot of expensive ink with my poor LPT1 ink-jet printer.
The CD-ROM runs great using 86Box. Pure nostalgia! 😍
P.S. Here's a link: Link: https://archive.org/details/kais_photo_soap_de
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Thanks to #WireGuard, my emulated Windows 98 machine just mounted its Samba share on my home server, which happens to be 1,500 km away right now.
Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake (Alpha 6) on 86Box with Socket 370 [1998]
We’re now back with the sixth alpha of Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake, which was released on June 2006! Two months shy of the 20th anniversary of the first Ubuntu LTS release, we are very excited for this experiment on 86Box.
Our focus in this article is testing Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake on an 86Box emulated machine with a Socket 370 [1998] motherboard. You can download it from here.
We’ve configured the virtual machine as follows:
We’ve configured a virtual machine to run with:
Once everything is configured as above, we can now start the virtual machine. Insert the Ubuntu 6.06 installation disc called ubuntu-6.06-alpha6-install-i386.iso to the CD-ROM reader, then configure BIOS as necessary.
You’ll see this main menu where we can choose to install either to the hard disk, in OEM mode, or as a server. Let’s choose the first option, which is a normal install.
Afterwards, the old-fashioned installer that looks similar to what a Debian textual installer would look like appears.
After we have chosen a language, we are asked for our location.
Finally, the installer asks us for the keyboard layout we need to select.
As soon as we press ENTER, the installer starts looking for the Ubuntu installation disc and load additional installer components after searching for CD-ROM hardware.
After that, the installer tried to find the network adapter. Since we don’t intend to have one installed, because this system is unsupported as of long ago, we have answered No when the installer asked us if we have FireWire Ethernet.
After that, we’re prompted for the host name.
Then, the installer asked us if we need to provide proxy information for Ubuntu mirrors. We left it blank.
Afterwards, the installer started finding hard disks and starting the partitioner.
The installer found an 8 GB hard disk, so we’ve agreed to install Ubuntu to it by erasing the whole disk.
Afterwards, we’re prompted for the full name, the user name, and the password of the new account that our Ubuntu installation will contain.
The installation then started from this stage.
It took a considerable amount of time, especially when it had to do with installing and configuring the desktop packages. After a lot of patience, the installer finally set everything up in the new installation, such as users, and gave us a congratulatory message below.
When we pressed ENTER, the system automatically rebooted to the new Ubuntu installation.
Then, the login screen appeared.
We signed in with our username and password, and the GNOME splash screen appeared with “Dapper Drake!” drawn over it, with “THIS IS NOT THE FINAL ARTWORK!” at the top. Those two writings don’t appear in the final version of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, suggesting that this is the pre-release version.
Once the desktop gets loaded, the desktop looks like this:
We can verify that this alpha version of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS uses Linux version 2.6.15.
Applications, such as Firefox and gedit, work, too.
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Oh, mein gutes, altes Windows 95 hat heute auch bemerkt, dass die Sommerzeit begonnen hat. Hat sich vermutlich auch keiner der damaligen Programmierer vorgestellt, dass das Ding noch 2026 Verwendung finden würde! 😜
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Thanks to a recent upload to the Internet Archive from "LazArchive", I could finally put together a set of compatible MS-DOS 3.31 floppy disks. The COMPAQ FASTART utility disk from 1989 finally works as intended using the COMPAQ User Programs v6.01 Rev B. This never worked for me before, so it's a huge improvement! 😃
MS-DOS v3.31 is a particularly useful version of DOS, because it was the first version to support a partition size of over 32MB... up to 512MB!
Link: https://archive.org/details/compaq331
Another Link: https://archive.org/details/ms-dos.ver.-3.31d-oem-compaq.-english
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Damn Small Linux 4.4.9 on 86Box with Socket 370 [1998]
Did you know that Damn Small Linux 2024 RC7 is different from the classic DSL Linux distribution, which focused on being a small distribution that has the size of 50 MB? Unlike the classic Damn Small Linux, which can fit on a business card sized CD-ROM, the modern version doesn’t fit on a mini CD because it has a size of 718 MB.
Our focus in this article is testing Damn Small Linux 4.4.9 on an 86Box emulated machine with a Socket 370 [1998] motherboard. You can download it from here.
We’ve configured the virtual machine as follows:
We’ve configured a virtual machine to run with:
Once everything is configured as above, we can now start the virtual machine. Insert the Damn Small Linux 4.4.9 disc called dsl-4.4.9.iso to the CD-ROM reader, then configure BIOS as necessary.
Once done, let Damn Small Linux start.
The desktop looks familiar and old-fashioned, which brings classical eras and nostalgia. However, how did people install Damn Small Linux to the hard drive (if they wanted to do so)?
We started with opening the DSL menu and navigating to Apps > Tools > Install to Hard Drive.
Sounds simple, right?
Wrong! It immediately asks you for the partition block name for your hard drive, such as hda1 or sda1.
So, let’s overturn the steps for a bit and open the root terminal shell to partition the disk manually using fdisk /dev/hda. Why /dev/hda? Because the hard drive was installed and configured as an IDE drive (primary master drive) instead of SCSI.
Next, we need to create an 800 MB first primary partition (type 83) which will hold the Damn Small Linux system files, which will be identified as sda1. Afterwards, we need to create a second partition which will be the swap partition (type 82) identified as sda2.
After the partitioning step, we need to write the partition table to the disk before continuing with the installer, but only after we’ve verified that we made the partition table correctly.
Now that we have enough information to select the correct disks, we need to write hda1 to the “Enter the target partition” prompt, which points to the 800 MB partition we’ll install DSL to.
After that, we’ll need to support a single user, while running DSL with ext3 as the filesystem. The format process then begins, and the installation process starts.
After the installation finishes, we need to install the bootloader to the hard drive’s MBR, with GRUB as the bootloader.
After that, we need to reboot the system.
After that, Damn Small Linux installed on the hard disk runs like below:
As this is a first time run, DSL then prompted us to provide both the root password and the default user password.
After that, DSL GUI is now running, and we can verify the Linux version, which is 2.4.31.
However, we need to manually set up the swap partition, since the hard drive installer didn’t prompt for the swap creation and enablement. So, we need to manually run both mkswap /dev/hda2 and swapon /dev/hda2 as root.
Now, when DSL starts up, the swap space gets automatically enabled.
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I do believe Windows 98 was the last version of Windows still available on floppy disks. A complete set includes 38 (!) 1.680K DMF format diskettes. Holy cow! 😉
#Diskette #FloppyDisk #Windows #Microsoft #90s #90er #Retro #Tech #RetroComputing #Oldschool #Emulation #86Box
I just received this version of Windows 98. Yes, Windows 98, not Windows 98 Second Edition. The original! I used this CD-ROM to update my 86Box VM from Windows 95 and everything worked right out of the box without any issues with drivers or within its device manager. It even managed pretty high-res resolutions and full 24-bit color. 😜
#Windows98 #Win98FE #Win98 #Retro #Computing #Tech #RetroGaming #Emulation #86Box #Microsoft #Windows #Oldschool #90er #90s
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