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by einr 5y ago
In the 1990s, a lot of desktop software was Windows-only, and used the Windows toolkit directly, so they supported the OS theming [1] including high-contrast options. Windows wasn't alone in providing this. Most desktop operating sys
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Consistent graphical user interfaces drawn by the operating system with standard widgets that automatically respected user selected color and font themes.
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This is true but depending on personal preference/perception and usecase it might not matter. If you really care about latency for twitchy old-school games, a MiSTer (or a real Amiga!) and CRT monitor would be ideal.
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by einr 5y ago
This is a Firefox bug which has been open for years and years with no fix. Try it with native apps like Finder or Terminal. Absolutely works for me on Big Sur.
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by einr 5y ago
MiSTer is an FPGA implementation of the Amiga (and a lot of other cores) based on an easily available FPGA dev board. https://misterfpga.org/ Apollo Vampire V4 standalone is a "modern" FPGA implementation of a 68k
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by einr 5y ago
Adding printer drivers manually with the "Have Disk..." option still brings up a dialog box with an icon of a floppy disk that defaults to a path of A:\.
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To be fair, it's usually pretty awkward and feels bad though. It is often very easy to accidentally scroll a bit on the wheel while depressing the third button.
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This feels pretty weird on macOS in a way I never realized, because I thought you were wrong but you're actually right -- you can slam the cursor right against the right edge of the screen and the scroll handle lights up and you can cl
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by einr 5y ago
At this point I think it is questionable whether the X16 will ever come out. There have been a lot of technical and supply issues, a lot of scope creep and drama in the community and there seems to have been no real significant progress upd
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PC DOS diverged from MS-DOS from version 6, went to version 7, and then around the turn of the millennium had a final commercial release called PC DOS 2000 which was essentially PC DOS 7 with some y2k fixes and other little modernizations.
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by einr 5y ago
Right click -> Options -> Double size, just like in the original program :) That said, it doesn't seem to center the scaled version in the window in Firefox so it's not very usable.
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> At work for new devs we bought ThinkPads with Ryzen. These are in general fine, except that multiple people have this weird issue with the computer completely freezing at random times on Linux. The one person who had Windows didn'
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> So, a CPU upgrade? How is that not what OP mentions? Are you asking how replacing the motherboard in a laptop with a custom third party hobbyist replacement is different from putting a faster CPU in a CPU socket?
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You can buy it without RAM, without storage, without WiFi card, and without OS and sort out all those things yourself. It's still a laptop with all that entails, but everything that was reasonable to make configurable or swappable -- t
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by einr 5y ago
No it doesn't. Windows ME didn't just remove support for booting into real-mode. It removed support for VxD drivers. No, it really didn't. Windows ME supports VxD drivers just fine.
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32 bytes per private key, 904625697166532776746648320380374280100293470930272690489102837043110636675 possible keys = 2.89480223 × 10^52 yottabytes
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by einr 5y ago
They really were. No-nonsense drivers, just worked. About the only Samsung product I could truly recommend. Unfortunately, HP bought their printer business in 2017. My ML1640 is still truckin' along just fine, however...
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https://downloadmoreram.com/
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When Windows ME was released, it was little more than a reskin of Windows 98 that removed or disabled much of the 16 bit capabilities and support for the ISA architecture in favor of 32 bit and PCI. It couldn't be installed on most ex
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by einr 5y ago
Speaking of booking systems, here's an interesting video about a campground in Germany which has been using an Atari ST with custom booking software every day since 1985: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LxPEz9x2fs
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by einr 5y ago
They're boiling the frog. It will get gradually more inconvenient, but still kind of viable, until the day they pull the plug entirely. The day that happens, Firefox is likely no longer a viable option and it is too late. If you care
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by einr 5y ago
Firefox has said they will implement V3, but "we will diverge from Chrome’s implementation where we think it matters and our values point to a different solution." Specifically, "we have decided to implement DNR and conti
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by einr 5y ago
macOS is absolutely not a FreeBSD fork, but there are lots of bits and pieces in current macOS that are direct derivatives of FreeBSD code, including kernel code, libc and lots of userland stuff. https://developer.apple.com/
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by einr 5y ago
No, it is possible to run 16 bit protected mode applications (i.e. Windows 3.x apps) under 64-bit "long mode". Microsoft explicitely chose to not support that -- with a few exceptions. In true Microsoft fashion, NTVDM on x86-64
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Yeah, GEM from Digital Research had nothing to do with GEOS/GeoWorks, apart from being DOS-based graphical interfaces that attempted to compete with Windows.
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Thanks for the reply! That is interesting and makes a lot of sense. Yes, running a 40 or 50 MHz bus made a huge difference, especially if you could get VLB graphics running reliably on it. I'm into collecting and tinkering with 486-era
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by einr 5y ago
This was already an issue on the Commodore 128, which had a 2 MHz "fast" mode but you had to manually engage it, and doing so would turn off the VIC-II. Good for doing large calculations or working in 80 column text mode, but usel
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and heating up the chip to the point that it needed a cooling fan -- a COOLING FAN, can you imagine a CPU running so fast it couldn't cool itself on ambient air? This feels super nitpicky but I'm curious about your setup and if
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by einr 5y ago
The correct way to wire them is so that turbo "on" means full speed and turbo "off" means slowed down. Different motherboards implemented it differently. Usually downclocking the FSB or inserting waitstates for memory ac
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It's a 386SX, which absolutely will run Windows 3.1 but if you're going to be real picky, it definitely won't be as snappy as in the video ;)

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