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This page is just a placeholder for DOS-related links. DOS is pretty old and crusty, but still useful for some tasks and along the way, tools have been developed to keep up with more modern hardware such as, for example, a working network stack, or even USB support. Have fun with DOS. RESOURCES Rufus: Create bootable USB drives the easy way Yes, there are USB drivers for DOS... DOS USB Drivers Usage with Cypress DUSE driver for DOS The FreeDOS Project Motto Hairu DOS Drivers DUSE by Example DOS USB Driver - EXAMPLES Connection from a DOS-system using TCP/IP Installing TCP/IP Protocol on DOS Computers DOS TCP/IP Networking with Packet Drivers DOS Software DOS-Meta FAQ: Useful information for DOS users FAQ: DOS Applications for Internet Use Universal TCP/IP Network Bootdisk GNU utilities for Win32

The game will install using Crossover, using the following recipe: Select an "unlisted app", select the setup.exe program from the installation folder, create a Windows7 bottle, at the fourth tab, add 'DirectX for modern games' and then begin the installation. Everything shoudl go smoothly from there on, but it might take a while. Start the game and get to the first checkpoint to generate an autosave. Quit the game and install the full v-1.42 Full Patch for Windows ; you can skip all the intermediary updates. You can installed 'saved games' to access all the maps. You can also install hires textures . This game is new enough to install without too much fuss. Just follow the HOWTOs. Download the Linux installer from [the very slow, but  it's free!!] IdSoftware or from here (faster). There is a Linux update as well found here . Because it is older, the Linux version may present some installation issues on your system, so check out the Quake4 FAQ/HOW...

The popular GUI DVD-authoring apps like K3B and Brasero, do not support burning ISO images in sizes greater than 4GB, which is odd, since they can detect the discs and can create an ISO image greater than 4GB. Please recognize that "4.7GB" is sleazy marketing misrepresenting GigaBytes, i.e. 1000  and not 1024. If translated to actual capacities, single layer DVD±R[W] capacity is only 4.4GB, and 26GB BluRay Disc is actually 23.3GB. Keep this in mind when creating your ISO images to burn manually. I purchased a Blue-Ray writer (an LG-brand Hitachi Model WP40NB30 )  hoping to use the 25GB M-Discs to archive some of the files I have accumulated spread out over several computers. Fortunately, the growisofs tool comes to the rescue, so from the command line, I just execute as a regular user: $ growisofs -speed=1 -Z /dev/sr1=big-image.iso I need the lower speed to keep from prematurely emptying the buffer which borks the disc. Although older, this page provides plenty...

The advertisement for Xtra-PC is alluring. Xtra-PC: The $25 Computer. New life for old or dead computers. If you were an MS-Windows user with an older or non-functional desktop or laptop, and you just needed to do a few things: Use Facebook to keep in touch with the grandchildren, send a few emails, type a letter or even watch a few cat videos, it would seem too good to be true . . . but it's not. Behind Xtra-PC is the power of Linux, Debian Sid (Casper?) to be exact. That knowledge would be intimidating to that MS-Windows user. After all, Linux is for computer geeks and hackers and is way to complicated for ordinary folks to install, configure and use. By touting its virtues and barely mentioning its underpinnings, Xtra-PC will entice the unwary and deliver on its promise.  Linux users know this, so Xtra-PC may seem to them as a waste of money. They already know how to install, configure and use Linux, but they are not the market for this device, their grandparents are...

Return to Castle Wolfenstein is a first-person shooter originally released on November 19, 2001. The game, like many other classic games, is available at GOG.com and costs only US$5.99. iortcw for Linux Don't bother with old and crusty Linux binaries offered by idsoft; they are problematic and it's painful to use them on a modern Linux. Fortunately for us, there are more modern GPL-licensed Linux binaries available for 32- and 64-bit systems as well as high resolution textures packages. The project at GitHub provides source code that can also be compiled for MS Windows using MinGW. iortcw for Windows and Mac You can download pre-compiled binaries for 32- and 64-bit Linux, MS Windows and Mac from here . Let's put our files in /usr/local/games/rtcw . As root, extract the downloaded .ZIP file for your architecture to  /usr/local/games/rtcw . All we are missing are the game data files. I purchased them from GOG.com. The game installer downloaded from GOG.com can be ...

Just a place to leave some bookmarks for data recovery that I can access anywhere. Recover Data From a Scratched or Damaged CD or DVD GNU ddrescue Manual Making backup copies of damaged dvds using ddrescue Recovering damaged CDs or DVDs with Linux ddrescue at ForensicsWiki.org Guide to Using DDRescue to Recover Data Ddrescue - Data recovery tool How to Clone Hard Disks with ddrescue CD-ROM data recovery - ddrescue 12 Linux dd, ddrescue and dcfldd command examples dd_rescue at forensicsWiki.org dcfldd at forensicsWiki.org "The DoD version of dd is called dcfldd. It works the same way, but is has a progress bar." How to use dcfldd instead of dd How to do everything with dd Photorec WIKI TestDisk WIKI   download all OS CmosPwd WIKI Chntpw for Dos WIKI Disk Cloning with dd

Mageia does not provide makeself, so you must obtain it from it's homepage (which re-direct to its Github page). The homepage provides a description of the application and a discussion of its options as well as some history of the application. Download it from: https://github.com/megastep/makeself/tarball/master . Unpack it to a sub-directory of your /home directory and change to that directory. Then run $ sh  ./makeself.sh and makeself will unpack itself to ~/makeself . Read the README.md file contents. This provides a good overview of what the application does and how it goes about building itself and eventually extracting itself. For my example, I will create a makeself shell archive that will install certain files in my  /home directory that I use in every /home directory on every machine where I have an account. To quote the README.md file, the syntax of makeself is the following: `makeself.sh [args] archive_dir file_name label startup_script [script_ar...