Vibra16 Win3.x floppy images: (this is actually CTCM) WinNT 3.5x driver floppy image: Win95: a pain to figure out what they are/extract them. I had to make an iso with these, load it up in vmware, then run the exe to 'write' a rawrite floppy image through vmware, then open it in winimage to extract.
These appear to be quite outdated, but since the DOS/Win3.x floppies are a 3 disk deal, it's more complete (as far as apps/utils) than what is currently in our collection Oldbie Posts: 839 Joined: 2011-2-12 @ 08:39. Any of you remember the Creative Connection Club back in 1996? It appears all of those files from there are lost. And I almost thought they really be gone forever because I.did.
download them. I dug through my zip disks and found them! Creative Connection Club was short lived but there were a few cool things that could be downloaded if you were a member: 2mbgmgs.sf2 9ftgrand.sf2 gmdrum.sf2 horror.sf2 rhythm.sf2 rockgtr.sf2 techno.sf2 woodwind.sf2 world.sf2 and there was also Vienna SF Studio 2.0. For Windows 3.1 and for Win95. It came as 3 floppies. Disk 1 as unified for both windows, and there were two separate disk 2s. I tried to find them to download but I couldn't.
I lost the original archives, but then I remembered that I actually extracted them to floppies. 5 minutes later, I found them! Recreating the WinZIP SFX files now on my retro box these will ALL be on the ISO it has now grown to 650MB!
Oldbie Posts: 839 Joined: 2011-2-12 @ 08:39. The ISO is now 671MB. I have 50MB to work with.
Actual data is 721MB already, but thanks to master optimizations, I could put a lot more in! I believe I am seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. I just did a test install of the Vienna SF Studio under Win 3.11. It bitched about needing disk 2, so I rebuilt the ISO again and put both disk 1 and disk 2 files together. Installed smoothly after that on another note, the AWE64 full install will detect if you have an SB16 or not. It will also install the wavesynth drivers if the system meets its requirements. The apps are actually the same version as the real SB16 disc I have, so no changes.
Still 1994/1995 stuff. They did add some extra help files, but who cares? So, it's still a better idea to install the normal SB16 stuff if you just have an SB16 since the AWE64 installer bitched about the 'system' not being able to run wavesynth, it didn't install the drivers. So I installed the standalone wavesynth upgrade package and it installed fine, but it fails to work in virtualbox I'm pleased so say though, that all of the apps that aren't archived on the CD have been test installed and works great. Except for the goldfinch, and waveblaster 1 stuff. I know wb2 works because I own one Oldbie Posts: 839 Joined: 2011-2-12 @ 08:39. Found the Midi Blaster MB10 floppy files from when I downloaded from QuestStudios 3 years ago.
Links are now dead, but I still got them: test installed webphone lite 2.0 and 3.0 in win98. Surprisingly, it asked for a serial #. I guess it was part of the manuals or some sort of paper that was part of the box. I have the real disc with webphone, but no such serial #. I thought this program would check for a real creative card and let you bypass it (initial assumption after I installed it on 32-bit Windows 7 under SVS), but apparently not. Since this thing is utterly useless now and NetSpeak Corp is defunct, I see no reason not to share the serial # I found googling just so it can be ran and played with.
It won't do anything as there's no servers to connect to. Like I said, useless. Total Entertainment Network includes a Duke3D shareware and some other shareware game.
Forgot as I didn't care to read it as I installed it. Interesting but mostly useless Inspire might work but I don't have a working NIC in 98 under virtualbox. Not going to really care much more.
I don't want to use any modern archiver for the sake of compatibility with DOS. Same reason why it is a CD and not DVD. I have to assume that the user using the retrobox won't have a DVD-ROM drive or can't install one. Backwards compatibility is also why the files/directories are in 8.3. Except for 2 files in the inspire 1.0 folder, it is just the way it was. Also, most of the FTP/BBS files I downloaded are original archives, so I am not going to rearchive them just to make space. The point is to preserve them the techniqs folder from the cakewalk CD, I did use rar to compress them and then made a 32-bit DOS sfx.
7zip doesn't even support DOS, and only slightly more efficient. Not worth the trouble Oldbie Posts: 839 Joined: 2011-2-12 @ 08:39.