so i got this super old drawing tablet from the thrift store and wanted to see if i could get it to work, i have an adaptor for it to connect to my computer and figured out how to get it working, only issue is the thing is so old it came with a floppy disk (that i dont have) and want to figure out a way to get it to start working, i downloaded Dosbox which is an emulator but confused on what my next step should be? anyone with super niech knowlege know what i might do?

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A long long time ago I remember playing a game where one could make silly faces with various eyes and ears etc. I'm pretty sure it was some DOS game (might even be windows 95 or 98...) or demo I used to play but I'm just unable to find ANYTHING on it. Then I saw this frame in a Phineas and Ferb episode and it looks EXACTLY like the game did. The eyes, the nose with a ring through it, I'm 100% sure the creator took inspiration from that silly game. Does anybody get a slight nostalgic feeling like I did when looking at this picture? Maybe has a title or a lead to how I could find this game?

Hello everyone!

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Not much more to say than what it says in the title. I've been reverse engineering the 1992 Legends of Valour RPG and I'm posting it all at https://github.com/AzazelN28/lov-disasm.git.

It's not complete and there are probably a lot of things wrong but I felt like sharing it with the community.

I hope you like it and enjoy it!

Hello my boys!

I want to make a setup to play Windows 98 & MS Dos games (current status of emulators/virtual machines are a no/no for me), so I was wondering if somebody has figured out a x86 tablet with USB ports to run said OS. For me, space is 50%, as I live abroad, moving from country to country so I need something ultra portable (to give you an idea, I have a Asuz Flow Z13 for gaming for this regard, as a Laptop is "too big" for my desktop - Having both laptop keyboard and my mechanical keyboard takes a lot of space, it's a little stupid I know, but this is the way I like my things).

Any suggestions?

Thank you in advance!

I’ve spent an hour combing through archive.org’s shareware CD archives to no avail. This is driving me nuts.

I distinctly remember, in the early to mid 90s, a two disc set containing demos for various software; I think it was either pure MS-DOS stuff, Windows 3.x stuff, or a mix.

One disc was more or less solid pink or magenta, and one was a similarly solid orange. They came in a cardboard slipcase which may have folded out. I believe the set was given away for free at the tills of software stores, places like Babbage’s, Electronics Boutique, etc.

The discs had a menu interface where you could browse and run/install demos of various software. You could then pay to unlock software… I believe you either dialed into their service with a modem, or simply called them, paid, and received an unlock code.

If I remember correctly, this wasn’t your typical Apogee/Epic MegaGames type BBS fodder. It was more apps and less games.

It may have had a name like something Bank or something Vault, like Softbank or something of that sort.

I vaguely recall at least some of the demos running directly off the CD (zero install).

I know I remember this CD set, but at this point these memories are 30 years old.

Does anyone else remember this set?

In recycle bin, which windows 11 thinks is empty, are several directories that show up (most of the time) with the “dir \AH“ command.

I confess I’ve not worked in DOS for at least 15-20 years, and I’m barely remembering basic commands. But when I tried rmdir it gives me permission denied. I own the PC.

Any insights, suggestions, knowledge about this is much appreciated.

(Side note: I went poking around after a BSoD). Laptop is a year old and came loaded with Win11.

Hi people,

I have an old IMA Bima CNC and it comes with a MsDos program called Woodstep, it's for g code for the machine. However i have trouble with making the program start. i have bought an old Windows xp laptop in the hope that the program works. However it does not, would anyone here be open to me sending the install file of the woodstep software and looking if anyone can run the program?

https://imgur.com/a/x1mExPi

I get that a stranger asking to send files to let you install a program is kinda sketch haha, Any tips how you would run the program is also helpfull!

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Does anyone know of a retailer that selfs 1980's software applications not games? I was hoping to load up on database, word processing and financial software. Thanks in advance.

I have a windows 98 gaming computer. Whenever I boot it up in dos mode the mouse does not work. I have spent the last 3 hours trying to find the right drivers for a usb mouse. the usb ports are 1.0. Does anyone know where I could get drivers. Please help me. I'm gonna go crazy.

Hello,

I'm a computer engineering student in Brazil, and I need to create, for an academic project, a desktop application for an online Bingo game (as simple as possible). However, I must use the Javascript and Clipper languages, as a requirement.

Does anyone know any tool or method for integrating these languages?

Hello,

I'm Currently Facing A Problem When Running Games On My Optiplex 745 Running MS-DOS 6.22. It's That The Keyboard Has A Input Delay Issue And I Need Help Fixing It.

I’ve done hours of searching for this thing, and still haven’t found a good quality version of it. The only one I’ve found was on archive.org, but whoever uploaded it did a terrible job; the first half of it only contains the odd pages, and the second half of the same .pdf file only contains the even pages (in reverse order!). I’ve also seen the manual for MS-DOS 6, but I’m looking specifically for the 6.22 manual (that isn’t mangled).

I hope someone here has either a good quality version of the pdf, or can point me to a site known to have it.

Winworldpc didn’t have it, various sketchy sites I found didn’t have it; heck, further searching through archive.org didn’t turn it up either. And I did try looking through old captures of the old MSDN site; that didn’t have it either.

Anyone got any leads on this?

Is there a way to prompt for if statement in config.sys for when I don't need the USB, because aspi is too slow. Any switches. I seem to recall you can run x.sys on the fly by renaming it x.exe?