Windows 10 launches most intrusive pop-up yet

Avantar said:
Till recently had to help with a company still on Win 3.11 and still use thin ethernet. Cannot find any more BNC terminators and network cards - not sure what they will do next.
[MENTION=1402]Avatar[/MENTION] - DOS! - now that is hard core. So they have one of those menu's created on screen and each menu option is a batch file opening the desired program? Lol. I did love DOS though.
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MANY MANY years ago I did support for Borland Quattro Pro (Two names you haven't heard in ages), anyways so some of Borland's products were bought over by Novell (so Quattro Pro became part of the Novell PerfectOffice suite) and was then bought over by Corel ultimately becoming part of Corel WordPerfect Office. Anyways so we were pushing Corel WordPerfect Suite 7 and Corel WordPerfect Suite 8 hard at the time and this one guy (out in KZN) was hellbent on sticking with Quattro Pro 2.0 (DOS based) so much so that we even at one stage gave him Corel WordPerfect Suite 8 for free to try and lure him to the latest version.

Then months later he was running Windows ME and Corel WordPerfect Suite 8...he was not a happy camper.
 
PsychoFish said:
MANY MANY years ago I did support for Borland Quattro Pro (Two names you haven't heard in ages), anyways so some of Borland's products were bought over by Novell (so Quattro Pro became part of the Novell PerfectOffice suite) and was then bought over by Corel ultimately becoming part of Corel WordPerfect Office. Anyways so we were pushing Corel WordPerfect Suite 7 and Corel WordPerfect Suite 8 hard at the time and this one guy (out in KZN) was hellbent on sticking with Quattro Pro 2.0 (DOS based) so much so that we even at one stage gave him Corel WordPerfect Suite 8 for free to try and lure him to the latest version.

Then months later he was running Windows ME and Corel WordPerfect Suite 8...he was not a happy camper.
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Lol! I would also be unhappy running Windows ME! Remember Quattro Pro well as well as Corel. I am sure there were other products from Corel I enjoyed too. Had my fair share with Novell. Those were the days - not so much for technology - but just being young, playing with computers pushing your Voodoo graphics card to the max running on a local Vesa bus slot on a motherboard coming from the future! I think we pushed Samna and Lotus 1-2-3 for productivity software back in the day. My memory sometimes fails me when thinking back on the XT and 286 computers I worked on.
 
Wyvern said:
Xpress vs14

I unfortunately cant upgrade without DrPro - its a programme we use to issue our plans with and the boss wont upgrade it ever
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We also had a problem with Pastel Xpress v14 and Windows 10. Plus our server refuses to download updates. The problem was .net 3.5 just wouldn't download, eventually the pastel guys remoted in on teamviewer and fixed it.
 
czc said:
We also had a problem with Pastel Xpress v14 and Windows 10. Plus our server refuses to download updates. The problem was .net 3.5 just wouldn't download, eventually the pastel guys remoted in on teamviewer and fixed it.
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yea we just decided we wont take the risk
 
You were pretty fortunate. :-) I made my own serial cable for playing Doom and Duke Nukem 3D 2 players. It was only 3 pins - 2,3 and 7 was it? One side pin 3 and 2 just needed to be switched on one side. Certainly played some Quake on BNC a bit later. Not sue if I was just poor but network cable and cards were a bit expensive for me.
Remember copying Warcraft 2 on stiffie - 48 of the things. When you unpack the files and get to stiffie 46, the archive got a CRC error. Swap the disk out for another and go to my friends house to do the whole archive again. I remember having to do this 3 or 4 times.
 
Avantar said:
You were pretty fortunate. :-) I made my own serial cable for playing Doom and Duke Nukem 3D 2 players. It was only 3 pins - 2,3 and 7 was it? One side pin 3 and 2 just needed to be switched on one side. Certainly played some Quake on BNC a bit later. Not sue if I was just poor but network cable and cards were a bit expensive for me.
Remember copying Warcraft 2 on stiffie - 48 of the things. When you unpack the files and get to stiffie 46, the archive got a CRC error. Swap the disk out for another and go to my friends house to do the whole archive again. I remember having to do this 3 or 4 times.
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I remember those. The old Serial "LapLink" cables. We used that for a while, but you were limited to 2 people so we all pitched in to buy second hand PCI 10base-2 ethernet NICs from somewhere. The terminators were cheap and we could make our own network cables from antenna cable we found in the garage. The biggest issue was to run IPX/SPX and to get the NIC to work under DOS.

I also recall walking 5km to a mates house to get Descent from him. Used ARJ to compress and split that 10M game over my box of stiffies, walked 5km back and disaster aka CRC error.
 
PsychoFish said:
I remember those. The old Serial "LapLink" cables. We used that for a while, but you were limited to 2 people so we all pitched in to buy second hand PCI 10base-2 ethernet NICs from somewhere. The terminators were cheap and we could make our own network cables from antenna cable we found in the garage. The biggest issue was to run IPX/SPX and to get the NIC to work under DOS.

I also recall walking 5km to a mates house to get Descent from him. Used ARJ to compress and split that 10M game over my box of stiffies, walked 5km back and disaster aka CRC error.
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Geez, haven't thought of ARJ files in ages. I was lucky enough to have access to a CD-ROM drive relatively young, so I could at least have the CD as source, then dump on stiffies to get it home. Soonish, though, the Sound Blaster 32x drives were cheap enough that we could get one at home, and I got a CD jam packed with demo's of Quarentine, Descent, Rise of the Triad, Magic Carpet, Terminal Velocity, Keen, and loads of other awesome titles with joystick. I wore that disc out!
 
PsychoFish said:
I remember those. The old Serial "LapLink" cables. We used that for a while, but you were limited to 2 people so we all pitched in to buy second hand PCI 10base-2 ethernet NICs from somewhere. The terminators were cheap and we could make our own network cables from antenna cable we found in the garage. The biggest issue was to run IPX/SPX and to get the NIC to work under DOS.

I also recall walking 5km to a mates house to get Descent from him. Used ARJ to compress and split that 10M game over my box of stiffies, walked 5km back and disaster aka CRC error.
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Oh my word! What a memory! I couldn't for the life of me remember the software's name - ARJ of course!
 
Avatar said:
Geez, haven't thought of ARJ files in ages. I was lucky enough to have access to a CD-ROM drive relatively young, so I could at least have the CD as source, then dump on stiffies to get it home. Soonish, though, the Sound Blaster 32x drives were cheap enough that we could get one at home, and I got a CD jam packed with demo's of Quarentine, Descent, Rise of the Triad, Magic Carpet, Terminal Velocity, Keen, and loads of other awesome titles with joystick. I wore that disc out!
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Avantar said:
Oh my word! What a memory! I couldn't for the life of me remember the software's name - ARJ of course!
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The only reason I ever remember ARJ is because I use Tar and BZ2 so often. Hell, let's see..

arj a -jm pirated_copy_of_doom.arj C:\games\doom\*.*

arj x pirated_copy_of_doom.arj D:\games\doom *.*

aah the memories
 
PsychoFish said:
The only reason I ever remember ARJ is because I use Tar and BZ2 so often. Hell, let's see..

arj a -jm pirated_copy_of_doom.arj C:\games\doom\*.*

arj x pirated_copy_of_doom.arj D:\games\doom *.*

aah the memories
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Wow, the flashbacks.. I think ARJ might've been the first software I had to use command line arguments with in Windows.. I vaguely remember trying to figure that out.
 
Switched to Win 10 early on and never looked back. Then again I might be a bit of a Windows fanboi at times...
 
Have 4 laptops on Win10, one on 8.1 and my own desktop ( + 2 others) on 7. Have a older twin tv tuner in there that , at the moment, doesn't play nicely with 10. Luckily the rollback work perfectly :) Will one day bite the bullet and transfer the tv tuner to one of the other Win7 desktops and reinstall mine clean. Have the Win10 iso for that.

So far very little issues with any of the Win10 machines (touch wood)
 
PsychoFish said:
The only reason I ever remember ARJ is because I use Tar and BZ2 so often. Hell, let's see..

arj a -jm pirated_copy_of_doom.arj C:\games\doom\*.*

arj x pirated_copy_of_doom.arj D:\games\doom *.*

aah the memories
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Impressive - I started off using pkzip and then just the awesomeness of ARJ came along. Used it a lot to share stuff over ICQ. I wish I could remember my account details; since I 've been one of the first 2000 to have ICQ. Used it last in 1993 I think.
 
Avantar said:
Impressive - I started off using pkzip and then just the awesomeness of ARJ came along. Used it a lot to share stuff over ICQ. I wish I could remember my account details; since I 've been one of the first 2000 to have ICQ. Used it last in 1993 I think.
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I can't forget certain things, it's like a curse. But also some of ARJ's command line switches are the same as tar so it makes it easier to remember.
 
Wyvern said:
Bwahahahahaha sorry

it took him 8 years to upgrade from Pastel vs6 to 14.... He doesnt upgrade or spend money unless it breaks. Unfortunately DrPro works well in win 7 - even though it really shouldnt
But I know I am pushing my luck to make it work in anything higher
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Make a clone of the hard drive. Put the original drive safely somewhere.
Do the upgrade and test.

If not work. Put original back. If works. #score

Did it to a pc here at work
 
Wyvern said:
Xpress vs14

I unfortunately cant upgrade without DrPro - its a programme we use to issue our plans with and the boss wont upgrade it ever
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I never sign and return those transmittal slips from the program. :p
 
czc said:
I never sign and return those transmittal slips from the program. :p
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And then I have to chase you down and make you sign it. We normally dont bother keeping the slips, but currently we have a contractor that will blatantly lie about receiving drawings.
 
I upgraded to Windows 10 on my home machine as soon as it was possible. I then upgraded my old work machine but got a new work machine soon after which I also upgraded. And I upgraded my wife's machine to Windows 10. Had no problems whatsoever...

Actually I lie! I had one problem on my home machine where the time would just change randomly. It turned out to be an Asus utility that was causing it. Otherwise it has been smooth sailing.
 
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