3 Feb
2016
3 Feb
'16
4:38 a.m.
Seems Windows 98 has got a few mentions on the list of late - must have just
come into the "classic era".
A while ago a good friend approached me as he wanted to get an old game up
and running that he really likes - Recoil (might ring a bell with a few list
folk) - wants the real experience, not the VM experience.
I'd be happy to help him out anyway but he has thrown a few old machines at
me from time to time rather than see them go to the tip so he definitely
gets help.
The game is quite particular and will only run on Win 98. I've resurrected a
HP e-Vectra that I have (very nice little machine by the way) that has a
serial on it for Win 98 SE but I really need the "actual" HP Recovery media
for it as I'm having some dramas getting the right video and sound drivers
for it.
I've struck out at HP and have tried a few vendors that still list parts for
this machine but no joy.
Be most grateful if someone can help me out or point me somewhere please.
Thank you!!!
++++++++++
Kevin Parker
++++++++++
3 Feb
3 Feb
7:13 p.m.
From the dim hazy past..
Didn't HP (USA) maintain a public FTP site loaded with drivers, docs, etc.
for obsolete / unsupported machines? Does anyone know if that resource is
still around?
At least your machine has a tag for Win98, so you know for a +fact+ that
the software set you need is definitely out there, somewhere.. just a
matter of finding it. And again, this isn't ancient history stuff.. support
must have been current through at least 2000 and sometime thereafter.
On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 3:38 AM, Kevin Parker <trash80 at internode.on.net>
wrote:
Seems Windows 98 has got a few mentions on the list of
late - must have
just
come into the "classic era".
A while ago a good friend approached me as he wanted to get an old game up
and running that he really likes - Recoil (might ring a bell with a few
list
folk) - wants the real experience, not the VM experience.
I'd be happy to help him out anyway but he has thrown a few old machines at
me from time to time rather than see them go to the tip so he definitely
gets help.
The game is quite particular and will only run on Win 98. I've resurrected
a
HP e-Vectra that I have (very nice little machine by the way) that has a
serial on it for Win 98 SE but I really need the "actual" HP Recovery
media
for it as I'm having some dramas getting the right video and sound drivers
for it.
I've struck out at HP and have tried a few vendors that still list parts
for
this machine but no joy.
Be most grateful if someone can help me out or point me somewhere please.
Thank you!!!
++++++++++
Kevin Parker
++++++++++
9:48 p.m.
On 02/03/2016 04:13 PM, drlegendre . wrote:
HP has gratuitously removed its driver archive from the web. At least I
can't find anything. Probably due to the slice-and-dice of HP
Enterprise from the (remaining) HP body, whatever's left of it.
I was looking last week for the drivers for the Vectra VL600. There are
still web pages that point to it, but th pages now say something to the
effect of "so sorry, we don't do that anymore"/ And I don't really
trust the third-party nastyware driver sites.
I wish it were otherwise. I reiterate that the web is written in sand,
just waiting for a good gust of wind to obliterate things.
--Chuck
From the dim
hazy past..
Didn't HP (USA) maintain a public FTP site loaded with drivers, docs,
etc. for obsolete / unsupported machines? Does anyone know if that
resource is still around?
4 Feb
4 Feb
5:16 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctech [mailto:cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of
drlegendre .
Sent: 04 February 2016 00:13
To: General Discussion: On-Topic Posts <cctech at classiccmp.org>
Subject: Re: OS help needed please
From the dim hazy past..
Didn't HP (USA) maintain a public FTP site loaded with drivers, docs, etc.
for obsolete / unsupported machines? Does anyone know if that resource is
still around?
At least your machine has a tag for Win98, so you know for a +fact+ that the
software set you need is definitely out there, somewhere.. just a matter of
finding it. And again, this isn't ancient history stuff.. support must have been
current through at least 2000 and sometime thereafter.
Filezilla still talks to ftp.hp.com. Seems to still have personal stuff in there if you
know the file names...
Dave
6:42 p.m.
Hey yeah, there it is.. and here I hadn't even bothered to try it.
Don't know if it contains what the OP needs, but at least the site is still
there..
On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 4:16 AM, Dave Wade <dave.g4ugm at gmail.com> wrote:
-----Original
Message-----
From: cctech [mailto:cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of
drlegendre .
Sent: 04 February 2016 00:13
To: General Discussion: On-Topic Posts <cctech at classiccmp.org>
Subject: Re: OS help needed please
From the dim hazy past..
Didn't HP (USA) maintain a public FTP site loaded with drivers, docs,
etc.
for obsolete / unsupported machines? Does anyone
know if that resource is
still around?
At least your machine has a tag for Win98, so you know for a +fact+ that
the
software set you need is definitely out there,
somewhere.. just a matter
of
finding it. And again, this isn't ancient
history stuff.. support must
have been
current through at least 2000 and sometime
thereafter.
Filezilla still talks to ftp.hp.com. Seems to still have personal stuff
in there if you know the file names...
Dave
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