"Windows ME"
Wed, 19 Apr 2017
09:38:02 GMT in alt.home.repair, wrote:
I installed a 10 gig harddrive, with Windows ME on it, that hadn't
been used in years and found it contains *LOTS OF GAMES*, so i've
been playing old games all evening.
Clydes Adventure is a great game, difficult, but great.
Has anyone even heard of it? I bought it way back in the late 80's
as I recall. Then theres Cosmo, Duke Nukem, Descent, Catacomb
Abyss, Wolf 3D, and *Lots More*.
yay! Do you have any of the wolf3d patches? Barney the purple
dinosaur, naked chicks on the walls, weapons conversion? etc?
Windows ME was a pretty good operating system.
Depends on your POV.
I'm using Dosbox to make everything run with sound.
Rockin! Hey, if you're interested, I wrote a saved game editor for
Duke Nukem. It supports episodes 1 thru 3. You're welcome to a copy
of it if you'd like. The exe is 5.2kilobytes in size. The entire zip
is 7.6kilobytes in size.
I wrote one for Commander Keen v4 Goodbye Galaxy around the same
time, and, secret agent. You just copy the DNHACK.EXE file into the
same folder as you've got Duke Nukem, and run it. It's self
explanatory. It'll ask for the episode, choose it. Then, it'll ask
for the saved game (1-9) and you'll be presented with the options of
things you can change. You can give yourself near unlimited health,
the claw, the boots, mod your firepower, change the last level you
completed, even change your score. All upto you.
DNHACK is not for the 3d version of Duke, so, if that's what you
have, this won't work. I wrote them back in 1997...Yea, I know..
but, I was really bored at the time, too.
This harddrive was going to be formated and used for other things,
but now I'm going to keep it. I ordered a new maxtor 250gig
harddrive today from Ebay, for $20.00 w/ free shipping. I remember
when those were $300.00.
Since the drive is so old, I'd suggest you backup the stuff you want
to keep onto a cdr/dvdr, usb stick, and/or newer hard disk. Bit rott
is a real thing.
I also found an old external Western Digital harddrive, 1.6 gigs.
It had to be formated. All the games are backed up to it now.
I'd suggest you back those games up on other media for the above
stated reason. Those drives are very old.
Windows ME coundn't install the drivers for the onboard network
card in this modern computer, so I had to dig out the old Netgear
wireless cards, that only use WEP. The drivers were already
installed. My new router doesn't even do WEP, so I had to make a
hidden SSID, with no security, to get network running. With the
hidden SSID no one should be able to even know it's there, I hope.
Umm...
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kba...orkName.htm l
Time to hit the hay. Five o'clock comes early.
Doesn't it though.
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Please be patient. I will get to you shortly.