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by Dwedit 6mo ago
It's a similar idea, but that's a DOS menu. At the point when the menu appears, MS-DOS 7.1 has already been loaded.
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by Dwedit 6mo ago
TAR archives are good in a few ways, but random access to files is not one of them. You need to iterate over every file before you can create a mapping between filename and its TAR file address. (Meanwhile, sending TAR over Netcat is a val
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by Dwedit 6mo ago
Technically this already worked with HXDOS, which emulated DirectDraw well enough that SDL could use it.
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by Dwedit 6mo ago
The really weird case is where the computer isn't actually compatible with DOS, so they put in a locked-down Linux distro that emulates FreeDOS.
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by Dwedit 6mo ago
1999 was Dialup for me. The modem said "56k" but didn't actually connect at that speed, it was more like 4.4KB/sec max. The biggest thing I grabbed then was an overnight bulk-downloading session from animewallpapers.com
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by Dwedit 6mo ago
You can use a browser extension like "Local Storage Editor" to see the contents of the Local Storage of a website. So far, I've seen it used for caching long-life images (like on gmail), or used as another way to do logins i
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by Dwedit 6mo ago
It's still useful to use MSVCRT in certain circumstances, such as targeting the earliest 64-bit versions of Windows. As for UTF-8 support, it's the manifest file that determines whether Windows sets the ANSI code page to UTF-8. (
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by Dwedit 6mo ago
A 3x5 font does not sacrifice the M or W. H,M,W end up as similar looking characters, but the M has the center pixel one higher, and the W has the center pixel one lower.
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by Dwedit 6mo ago
MSYS2 is very confusing. When you pick "MSYS2", you are building exclusively for the MSYS2 target environment, and might not have proper compatible windows headers. When you pick "MINGW32/64", you are instead buil
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by Dwedit 6mo ago
"What's My Line" had in-show advertisements for the UNIVAC computer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEQlOrPs6fw
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by Dwedit 6mo ago
DOS wasn't normally used with a network. No network = far less need for security.
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by Dwedit 6mo ago
Why waste a slot on -0?
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by Dwedit 6mo ago
The other way to detect DosBox is a one line Qbasic program PRINT VAL("5"). If it's a 64-bit build made using Visual Studio, you get 4.99999999999. Visual Studio doesn't support legacy 80-bit floating point math for tha
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by Dwedit 6mo ago
Contractual agreement? Nobody reads things like EULAs or terms of service. It's probably in there already.
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by Dwedit 6mo ago
People lend phones or computers to kids. The age associated with the user account means absolutely nothing.
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by Dwedit 6mo ago
Any way to disable the entire cloud tag system?
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by Dwedit 6mo ago
A video posted by McDonalds Canada reveals how they stage the burgers for photographing them. They shift each layer backwards (bun, meat, etc) so that the ingredients of the layer are more visible when photographed. The top bun ends up be
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by Dwedit 6mo ago
You summon Wesley Willis of course (rip).
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by Dwedit 6mo ago
"GetMessage" can do a lot of things you don't expect it to do. Ever used a global keyboard hook? Your keyboard handler code is called because "GetMessage" is calling other functions to have it get handled.
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by Dwedit 6mo ago
You can modify this stuff if you go deep enough and are willing to detour the native Win32 API functions. Some things implemented in User32.dll don't make the appropriate API calls back to other User32.dll functions, and you need to d
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by Dwedit 6mo ago
Winforms is built on top of Win32, and you can use your own Win32 code alongside it, even overriding how a control behaves.
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by Dwedit 6mo ago
Even a minimal Hello World program (1.5KB executable) takes 340K of active private working set, and 552K of commit size. Windows just don't allow programs to use any less memory than that. You're bound by what the system librari
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by Dwedit 6mo ago
ARMv7 and ARM7 look very similar, but ARM7 is ARMv3, and ARM9 is ARMv4. Similar names are very misleading here.
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by Dwedit 6mo ago
The one thing that makes a modern computer faster than an 80s computer is cache . Without cache, your computer has to go to the memory bus to fetch every instruction and memory read or write, and your system will wait to get the bytes bac
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by Dwedit 7mo ago
Browsers could still do something about mixed Internet and LAN/Localhost requests by IP address regardless of the domain name.
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by Dwedit 7mo ago
Every time I tried following alone with the winelib/winemaker documentation, I always ended up with an ELF that had to be invoked using "wine" to run. Nothing that could self-load any of the wine dependencies.
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by Dwedit 7mo ago
WinForms is a layer built on top of raw Win32. So it's not portable. Even though Wine exists, Win32 calls can only be made from Win32 programs, not native Linux programs. So a WinForms app using the latest dotnet would need to run th
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by Dwedit 7mo ago
X264 supports a lossless mode without chroma subsampling, which produces very good compression for raw emulator captures of retro game footage. It is much better than other codecs like HuffYuv, etc. But for some reason, Firefox refuses to
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by Dwedit 7mo ago
Github lets you disable the issue tracker, seems like the thing to do here if a project is serious about "not looking at tickets".
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by Dwedit 7mo ago
It seems like WUB (windows update blocker) will still prevent an update?

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