root42Oh, there is a new version of MS DOS out: Version 6.0! Let us upgrade from version 5.0!
And MS DOS 6 comes with memmaker, to free up that conventional memory! It worked pretty well, I would say!
And I have access to my Linux Mint iMac, and can move files back and forth. This makes it so much easier than juggling floppies...
Forgot this bit of Upgrade pr0n: Setup for a German Windows for Workgroups 3.11 install. The reason was originally just to get a more up to date version of EMM386, but led to the whole TCP/IP rabbit hole. Interesting enough WfW3.11 didn't ship with TCP/IP, it was a separate download.
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Rob Fahrni@root42 Hey! I worked on that release! š
@root42 Nothing too exciting. I was on the Windows International team and we did all the localization testing for Windows for Workgroups 3.11.
One of our Test Engineers reported a bug in the easter egg dialog because it didnāt work properly in German and the developers just about murdered him because Easter Eggs arenāt supposed to exist.
There were a bunch of functions called bear1 through bear[X] that were written in assembly language and when someone touched them, they typically broke.
Opa Gollum Catuvolcus DN9MS@root42 In 90s i used the NE2000 Dos Driver. This works with WfW3.11.
@root42 I absolutely LOVED the old file manager. Iām sure it would feel awful today but I was bummed when Windows 95 came out. I preferred the old Win 3.1 UI.
In fact I also worked on Windows NT 3.51 ā which was extremely solid and one of my favorite OS releases ā and it had the old UI. Loved that darned OS.
@fahrni NT 3.51 was a very solid OS, that's true. I worked more with NT 4, though. It had support for more stuff. I used Win95 alongside OS/2 Warp 3 for a while. Then Windows 98 for some time. Windows 2000 was the last Windows I used at home. Afterwards it was all Linux and macOS for me.
@root42 What Linux distribution do you use? The last time I used Linux I was using Ubuntu, in 2009. Itās been a while. š
TobiX@fahrni @root42 Microsoft released the file manager (WINFILE.EXE) as open source some way back (https://github.com/microsoft/winfile) and someone modernized it: https://github.com/brianluft/heirloom
SlaĆne@root42 what were you using to share files ? I did something similar yesterday where I setup a little Flask web app to share a directory to my Quadra.
@slaine samba. It comes with every Linuxā¦ you need to dumb it down a bit for Windows 3.11, but works. Totally insecure, but works.
Chris š š§@root42 god, I love that kind of retro stuff
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Colin Haynes@root42 I remember them all from 2.1 onwards. I still have a soft spot for EDLIN.
Thomas@root42 HighScreen from Vobis. My first PC was from WĆ¼rselen / Aachen. Bill Gates was there and wanted to talk to Theo Lieven about Microsoft and IBM OS/2. Liven said to the service team: Tell this idiot i am on hollyday. He went out the backdoor behind the bulding.
Boris Kretzinger@root42 Oh wow, a Highscreen Colani PC, what a beauty! One of the machines I might actually want to get myself someday. Maybe. ššš
@Datassette_User i have a Highscreen CRT here as well, but sadly itās going into protection when turning it on. Someday I need to get it fixedā¦