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  2. NotHereToPlayGames
    I wondered why it said "we", lol Congrats on finding a fix! I honestly was trying to find a hosts-file-only type of fix, but every time I fire up a UXP browser these days has me wanting to pinch my nipples with battery cables. Much LESS pain than the "experience" UXP provides. I really don't know how you guys (without Android backups) "survive" in this day and age.
  3. Today
  4. j7n
    Yes that is what we believe. I blocked fen.peryuck.com (yuck!), and it is not redirecting me to an error page at this time. So everything seems to work. I only need the mail to activate or log into some account, or refresh a sytes.net domain once a month. The adblocker would have to kill a script that goes inside the main page, which then errors out when ads are blocked, to stop it doing so. Maybe Yahoo didn't properly add it. The Ad-Shield guy talked about "billions" of lost revenue from ads, as if they were some kind of resource harvesting machine. Somehow knowing what my machine properties are through tracker scripts would generate them revenue. Most in capitalism only transfer fake money from one another. We may have saved billions of grams of greenhouse gases from being made by not watching ads.
  5. AstroSkipper
    OK. Patient number 12.0.0.6818 from 2019 has been resuscitated and is eating again. „Oops!... I Did It Again“ ...
  6. autodidact
    There are new Vista builds linked in the previous post. If you can let me know if ffplay is working for you.
  7. Drew Hoffman
    Release: WDMHDA Alpha-022 https://github.com/andrew-hoffman/WDMHDA/rele … s/tag/Alpha-022 Changes: Fix choppy playback/silence if stream is paused and resumed near the end of the audio buffer add Mute for the main output (doesn't work on all codecs yet) Fix CORB/RIRB on NForce chipsets Send a power-up command to all Power Widgets on the codec just in case that is needed. Reduced max audio buffer size to 128k again, too much buffer can cause significant lag I should also mention that sdz on VOGONS has released a standalone OPL3 emulator for Win9x which works well in combination with WDMHDA: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=111787
  8. Drew Hoffman
    Nowadays there's also JHRobotics' SoftGPU project https://github.com/JHRobotics/softgpu/ which will convert DirectX and Glide API commands to OpenGL using Mesa and then either render it on the CPU or (if you're using VMWare or VirtualBox) it can pass the GL draw calls over to the host and render them there. The overhead is too high for it to be practical for anything past late-90s games but there is some potential it could be improved.
  9. NotHereToPlayGames
    https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/there-is-no-war-in-ba-sing-se
  10. Yesterday
  11. NullEntity
    "there is no job crisis in ba sing se america" ~ Executives probably
  12. joop
    Good news, the Firefox release calendar says there comes a mega extension for 115 ESR until as late as Jan 2027! https://whattrainisitnow.com/calendar/
  13. NotHereToPlayGames
    Browsing without uBO: sitting in a damp medieval dungeon no food or drink for three days ankles chained to the legs of the chair wrists duct-taped to the arms of the chair battery cables attached to my nipples, 100-volt electroshocks overy 10 seconds Browsing with uBO: sitting in a hammock at the beach on a cool evening with a slight breeze while enjoying the sunset
  14. NotHereToPlayGames
    On second thought... We will always have "naysayers" that will NEVER use uBO. They will *always* run their browser their way, without uBO, no matter how often we suggest to them that they need to "let go" of the old-school thinking. No skin off our backs, it is their computer, let them "suffer" by sticking to their not wanting to use uBO, be it modified or as-is, old or new.
  15. NotHereToPlayGames
    I guess I agree and disagree both at the same time. I use uBO. Can't live without it! And that goes for XP or 10 or anything in between. And that goes for slow-as-sh#t UXP to fast-as-H#ll way better options available to those that "let go" of XP. BUT... I *hate* uBO in its current evolution. I prefer the older versions. But I *hate* them also. I **LOVE** the MODIFIED version that I can not live without. I see the side of anybody that doesn't want to use the current evolution !!! And I don't expect them to be able to MODIFY it into something that the DO like. We can't "force" them to use it if they have their own reasons, legit or not, to NOT use it. BUT... If they could at least tell us WHY, maybe we could "teach them" how to modify what they don't like 'out of it' and create something that they DO like.
  16. AstroSkipper
    As I already said, it is no longer time to be picky when it comes to real-time protection under Windows XP. And of course, I read such reports about IOBit Malware Fighter. I personally never liked the IOBit company. Their products have never really been any good. And in the case of IOBit Malware Fighter, I can see why. The positives: Easy to install. A clearly structured, very tidy and modern interface. Good usability. Lots of features not usually found in freeware. Excellent uninstallation speed. The negatives: No daily updates as advertised. Today, it’s still installing the version from 9 July. Not really integrated efficiently into Windows XP. When the protection is activated, performance plummets. Version 13 is constantly being promoted, and you’re told to download it, even though it’s not compatible with Windows XP. No self-protection. The scan speed is so poor that I’m lost for words... The scanning speed is the absolute worst I have ever experienced. Smart Scan was cancelled after 123,226 files!!! and 120 minutes!!! with only 5% progress!!! This is no Smart Scan. I then uninstalled it completely. The uninstallation was done in seconds. That just goes to show how poorly the programme was integrated into Windows XP. It was practically just a superficial add-on. And it can even be shut down completely with just two clicks. That’s a goldmine for malware. My conclusion: Looks great on the outside, but a flop on the inside. P.S.: And that’s the good thing about my ancient P4 computer. It mercilessly exposes the weaknesses of software.
  17. Monroe
    The Mind-Bending Company That Gets a Million Job Applications—and Rejects 99.9% Getting an offer from Bending Spoons, which owns AOL, has become harder than getting into Harvard https://archive.ph/kY6Th By Ben Cohen / July 10, 2026
  18. AstroSkipper
    New Moon, Serpent or Mypal are a nightmare without uBO. And the forum editor is a nightmare, anyways. I already again reported that some weeks ago. There have been many such reports in the past.
  19. NotHereToPlayGames
    "Good luck with that."
  20. NotHereToPlayGames
    And you don't need something "heavy" like uBO to block. Just a lightweight custom userstyle does the trick.
  21. NotHereToPlayGames
    1) posting on MSFN today is an outright NIGHTMARE 2) I spoke too soon, I logged back in and NOW (but not earlier) there is an EHARMONY ad at the very top and a banner on the right that rotates between a few different ads. 3) but even if I could paste a screencap, I kinda CAN'T because the eHarmony ad reveals my city (I wouldn't say I "hide", per se, but I prefer to limit my location to "midwest USA", not to my CITY).
  22. xjani
    I agree with you. On older hardware, I preferred the HTTP protocol, but what can you do when the world has gone crazy in this race to make life harder? I no longer feel like turning the Amazon River around with a stick.
  23. NotHereToPlayGames
    Yes. New Moon. XP x86 VM (being a VM should *make no difference* in this discussion). I can no longer "paste" screencaps into the post editor (this has been mentioned in other threads, directed at @xp... @trip... @dave-h).
  24. Tangy
    @AstroSkipper Free . I am sure you are aware that reviews have been unfavourable since its inception. Western propaganda ? Regarding Chinese products. Better than nothing is debatable ? Yes, it could run seamlessly along side the Italian one and still be a very light compo. What do you reckon ?
  25. VistaLover
    ... But as I had pointed out here, your sample Polish radio stream still works in plain HTTP mode ... I never, for the life of me, understood WHY rich media content (streaming video and/or audio) has to be served over HTTPS ; this isn't about security at all, it's not like we're dealing with financial transactions where highly confidential/sensitive data/details are involved... The culprit, once more, is Google and their web-dominating browser, Chrome ; Chrome was the first browser/engine that disallowed the delivery of "mixed" content inside a page (with the known "mantra" of doing so to protect their users from on-line fraud), i.e., if the webpage has been loaded through HTTPS, likely to be a media service's web-player containing page, then the video/audio content inside the web-player HAS to be streamed over HTTPS, too, because otherwise Chrome would block it; thus, the media CDNs are now forced to stream via HTTPS, adding (practically) unnecessary TLS overhead (more easily perceived on old H/W) to the viewing/listening experience ...
  26. VistaLover
    @j7n are adamant on NOT using an extension-based adblocker (e.g. uBO) in the browser, because they harbour the conviction that such an extension would considerably impede their browser's performance ; in the past, both myself and other members here have suggested to them the installation and use of uBO, but they still think that their old ways of dealing with ads (blocking "known" ad-serving domains in their HOSTS file) is still sufficient/effective in the web-ecosystem of 2025+ ... Is this on a UXP-based browser (the object of these megathreads) ? Because if you're talking about recent Chromium/Firefox, these now come with built-in ways of dealing with (some of the) unwanted content ...
  27. reboot12
    Oh, maybe my screenshots are from C64 or MS-DOS Guy probably use one-core-api-base with patched kernel32.dll
  28. NotHereToPlayGames
    His screencap of it working is in 64bit XP. Your screencap of it failing is in 32bit XP (I think).
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