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Very very very cool videos! How I miss those text based menus! Took me back 30 years! Thanks for posting these!

[Steven W]

Those applications that had drop-down menus in the DOS era were the best.

[!]

Truly yes...

[Steven W]

The little utility that I used to check CPUs for SSE2 in Windows XP has been updated and, apparently, has a new site:

http://www.steunebrink.info/chkcpu.htm

[Steven W]

Been enjoying LTris on the Linux disto:

https://lgames.sourceforge.io/LTris/

I see there's a Windows build, not sure of the exact Window requirements. There's other games listed there too.

[Steven W]

DOSBox apparently can't run Microsoft's SHARE.EXE. I downloaded a program that whined for it. I happened to remember an old utility named fakeshar and tracked it down. The program didn't like it and still whined for SHARE.EXE. Anywho, in my searching, I found another utility called noshare. Noshare worked. I found it at a simtel mirror:

http://www.lanet.lv/simtel.net/msdos/sysutl-pre.html

Me upload now!

NOSHARE:

NOSHARE.ZIP

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-------------------------------------------------------------------------
NOSHARE.COM Version 1.00 December 19th, 1993
Copyright (c) Martin Filteau, 1993
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

This small TSR (Terminate and Stay-Resident) program provides
*dummy* SHARE functionality. That is, it makes believe that
the DOS SHARE extension is installed although it is not. This
is especially useful for Word for Windows 6.0 users who don't
want the hassles of loading SHARE.

To install, type at the DOS prompt (outside Windows):

NOSHARE /INSTALL

To remove the TSR:

NOSHARE /REMOVE

Typing NOSHARE alone or with the /HELP switch will display an
help screen.

DISCLAIMER:
This program is provided as is. You use it at your own risks.
The author will not assume any responsability for it. Comments
and donations will be greatly accepted.

Martin Filteau CIS: 72607,2711
9416 ave de Bretonvilliers Internet: filteau@scribens.polymtl.ca
Montreal (Quebec) Canada fm59@music.mus.polymtl.ca
H2M 2B1

----------------------------- END OF FILE -------------------------------

This is rather nice, I don't have to set it up, I can run and remove it on-demand:

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NOSHARE  /INSTALL

Code: Select all

NOSHARE  /REMOVE

Running noshare (sans switch) yeilds:

noshare_noswitch.jpg (45.6 KiB) Viewed 21640 times

[Steven W]

The program that was whining for share.exe was the DOS version of Ability Office. Something else you can haz 4 free!

https://www.ability.com/support/dos

FYI, the company that gives that away does sell a modern office suite too:

https://www.ability.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcGDgoc7hMg

Ah, gotta appreciate Jim Hall.

[Steven W]

[Steven W]

Long ago, in the before-fore times, there was a post @msfn. A couple of fucktards named ProblemChyld and Steven W were there:

https://web.archive.org/web/20231203001 ... e-word-97/

It's really a shame that, outside of ProblemChyld putting Word in SP3, nobody really expanded on the ideas there. That Steven W asswipe is pointing out that more than Word could be made to 'work', with a few extra bits in addition to the files from Office 97 sr2b. The stupid fucker realized some time later that doing the things mentioned there also work under WINE on Linux.

https://web.archive.org/web/20231203001 ... e-word-97/

[Steven W]

Maybe worth mentioning too, if you can find the correct updates for older (than Office 97) 32 bit Office products, such as Office 95, similar things can be done.