i am blown away by this german rpg (with full english translation) that has been around for decades, and i somehow never heard of it until now

Teudogar and the Alliance with Rome (2003) is as close to an Ultima VII followup as we'll ever see in my opinion.

https://www.mobygames.com/game/40423/teudogar-and-the-alliance-with-rome/

i was initially crushed when i saw that the developer closed their site, and did not allow any registrations/purchases of the game - and the demo was the only thing left available.

mercifully, some digging revealed that the developer *very* kindly provided a free download of the full version of the game in a secret area of their site:
http://www.teudogar.com/private/index.html

important: the zip password is Password

caligari truespace 4.0 source for win9x

as released by the scene group Revolt in 1998

this is not my release - just my archival work. the source for truespace has been hiding in plain sight for 25+ years. having exhausted all my known avenues for finding an "official" seal of approval from the publisher, community-based preservation is the only possibility now.

the story: apparently someone from Revolt went to caligari's public FTP server in the late 90s, and found that an employee had left the full source for TrueSpace 4 in a /pub folder. it was released on BBSes and on IRC in the late 90s, and disappeared from the internet soon after.

doing some research on TrueSpace - truly the best piece of 3D modelling/rendering software aside from Bryce in the 90s - i stumbled upon a brief mention of the source code in an ancient usenet post. tracking down the release involved searching the *exceptional* scenelist.org NFO database, and trying to figure out the exact filename of the warez release.

SCiZE, the scenelist.org owner, did not have the files on his BBS. fortunately, he knew exactly where to find the release: it was buried in the massive 500GB "ibm-wgam-wbiz-collection" on IA. knowing the exact filename made it so much easier to track down in there!

so, have some fun with it. this doesn't belong on github or any publicly scrapable source site. just download it and let's see who can manage to compile it first :)

see the instructions in revolt.nfo for extra help on compiling

https://archive.org/details/ts4src

#retrocomputing enthusiasts on YT, when they feature PCs with #Win95, seem to love PASSPORT.MID.

I was watching an interview with boomer rockist David Paich of Toto while that midi track was stuck in my head, and the result wasn’t pretty. #RiffsAndGrooves

https://www.porknachos.com/files/blog/2025-02-12-d809b6c08586-Passport-RiffsandGrooves.mp3

dotnet9x - Backport of .NET 2.0 - 3.5 to Windows 9x.
https://github.com/itsmattkc/dotnet9x

Finally got my 486 online, running Win 95 OSR2 w/ Netscape Navigator.

Now I can finally install the drivers for the SoundBlaster card.

You might be thinking, but that's easy! But I have an SB128 installed, and I have a very limited selection of media on which to transfer stuff from my Win10 machine to the 486. Getting the networking working was a huge step on getting it working.

This PC is really a huge hodge-podge of components. The SB card is actually one of my old cards from the late 90s. I bought the 486 board (with a 5x86 133MHz chip in it), an AMD 486 DX4-100 bought and installed, the HDD is a 120GB laptop drive with a SATA to PATA adapter.

I am just doing what I can to put together something that helps me relive the days of my original AST 486 DX2-50.

Trying to get my 486 online is being a hell of a pain in the rump.

I've done the WinSock 2 update, but it's still not able to get DHCP to work. TCP/IP just seems borked. Really scratching my head here.

Anyone had similar issues but were able to resolve?

help!

Looking for Toshiba L50utils.exe - laptop pcmcia drivers for Windows 95. It is long gone from the Toshiba website. Anybody with a floppy with this on or know where to find a copy?

In case you missed it, there are now several #RetroComputing Mastodon apps available:

Apple II
https://www.colino.net/wordpress/en/binary-release-of-mastodon-for-the-apple-c/

Apple Macintosh OS (pre-OSX)
https://github.com/smallsco/macstodon

Commodore Amiga
https://github.com/BlitterStudio/amidon

IBM MVS
https://github.com/mainframed/BREXXTODON

MS-DOS
https://github.com/SuperIlu/DOStodon

Windows 95
https://github.com/meyskens/mastodon-for-workgroups

Oh my god, I don’t know why but the Games Sampler 2 disc for Windows 95 just popped into my head.

Monster Truck Madness, Road Rash, Diablo, Neverhood, You Don’t Know Jack…

I played so much of this!

Does anyone else remember it?

#retrocomputing #retrogames #windows #windows95 #win95

https://www.mobygames.com/game/71345/games-sampler-2-for-windows-95/

I wrote a detailed article about the inner side and the engineering of Windows 3.x.

Most people affirm it is only a subpar GUI on top of DOS, but it is much more than that! Win3.11 on a 386 is not as far from #Win95 as we could imagine.

https://xtof.info/inside-windows3.html