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I wasn't misleading anyone. I said "pluck some 100 Euro notes", not pluck ONE 100 Euro note," or even "pluck a few 100 Euro notes!" We're all well aware that the cost of a modern PC is more than a few 100-Euro notes. I figured the reader would know how many notes would have to be plucked! But quibbles over adjectives aside, I think we actually agree! My whole point was that there's no such thing as a money tree! Most of us actually have to work quite hard to earn enough money to buy a modern PC; thus it was quite arrogant for someone to respond to a complaint about a Web site being deliberately blocked from working on an older PC with "just go out and buy a new one," as if that were a trivial thing for anyone to do!

Under the BIOS PCI devices listing, both are shown as having IRQ 5. In Win98 device manager too, both still have the same IRQ 5. And yet now everything works perfectly. Very strange and I don't have the first idea what's going on. Another interesting thing - before when I played Hitman Contracts with EAX enabled (SB Audigy 2 ZS), after a while the sound would start tearing and repeating (as if some sound buffer underflow or overflow happened). After this IRQ steering related change, even that sound problem went away. As I said, very weird..

@SweetLow Hey man, thank you so much for giving me the hint of IRQ Steering. I looked it up online and found that IRQ steering settings can be found in PCI Bus device settings. So I went to pci bus properties in safe mode, then in settings tab, under Device enumeration, changed from "Use Hardware" option to "Use BIOS" option. Left the "Override Bridges" check box unchecked. Then in the IRQ Steering tab, I just unchecked the "Use IRQ Steering" check box (this also disabled all the sub-options: Get IRQ table using ACPI BIOS, Get IRQ table using MS Specification table and Get IRQ table from Real Mode PCIBIOS 2.1 call). Then after restarting, both the VGA driver and SMB via LAN access works perfectly. I admit I don't have the least bit of idea what those options meant. Maybe I only had to disable one or two things or suboptions. I'll test with games further and update here if anything got broken after my changes

Since I don't make changes directly in the source tree of my fork (I apply a few changes after cloning), I could try to apply 2 diff's with your proposed changes. Could you check if this is what you want (I left out the changes in README.md)? GvsPoTokenPolicy only set to false for HLS. StreamingProtocol.HLS: GvsPoTokenPolicy( required=False, recommended=True, ),

Do you have working PCI IRQ Steering? Do you use jumbo frames on this device,? And yes, I have to note that you didn't share the results of your previous problem solving...

I'm still working on this. I found my old Pentium 133 Windows 95 system and have downloaded some alternate builds of Pidgin and GTK+2. The rev-a version seems to be the mistake; the original GTK 2.6.10 was the last build for 95 except for a special build of 2.14.4. Google "gtk+2 win95-compatible version" AI Overview:

Not me. I've never understood that. I'm still using a 10-year old 4G phone. People like you describe act as if they actually have money trees, throwing away an over-$1000 piece of equipment every 2-3 years just because there's an even more expensive version out! Because that's how the World Wide Web was designed to work, that's why! The original idea behind HTML was that, no matter how many fancy bells and whistles were added later on, a Web page should still look the same to folks using a browser that didn't support the new bells and whistles. The page may be slow and look like one of those ugly pages from the '80's, but it's still supposed to work. (And for the most part, the WWW really did work that way for its first couple of decades.) I know we got away from that ideal long ago, but I still think it's an ideal worth striving for, rather than Discourse (or whoever) shutting you out of their sites completely because your browser/OS doesn't support all the HTML features they think they might want to use someday. Someone once told me there's a difference between dealing with organic change like the shifting seasons, and the change forced on you by someone who is whipping you forward like a drover, toward a destination of their choosing, not yours. You misunderstand the situation. We don't get to choose whether to use "old school" or "new school" methods! If the Web designer used the "old school" method of sniffing the UA (e.g., chase.com), then we have to use the corresponding "old school" method of spoofing the UA just to get in! Of course, we often have to use "new school" methods as well, like those built into a Web browser like R3dfox or Supermium, or the site will likely not work well (see above) but that doesn't mean we can ignore UA spoofing just because it's considered "old school."

Thanks! My dads StartAllBack is now licensed.

Funny enough I used not care about it too much, I had my private IRC server for comms and still do. IRC is nice since all you need do is forward single TCP port, it works just fine even over SSH port forward using Putty legacy build under 95. I originally started test alternative communications over request from friends who used it. They wanted stuff like presence, proper file transfers, proper single and multi user chat. First I did testing on old Microsoft Communicator server disc I had laying around from friend suggestion (was before lynx/skype for business server), but it was too complex to be used in my scenario. So I ended up trying XMPP/Jabber server software since I had heard about it features and it did fit great for this purpose. First it was just XP+, then I began test other platforms. Of course I did not forget my IRC and create bridge between XMPP MUC and IRC channels So far I gotten XMPP full functionality under Windows NT/98/SE/ME with Pidgin 2.6.6, Windows Whistler build 2267 with Pidgin 2.6.6 and legacy GTK runtime (just because) and Mac Os X 10.4 Tiger (PowerMac) using PSI 0.14. Limited functionality I gotten to work under Windows 95 using PSI 0.10, Classic Mac Os 9.2.2 using tvjab and Symbian S60 3rd edition using nnproject putty 0.68 for Symbian S60 3rd (backport) and Talkonaut chat client. At this point it feels like I just love push limits of what you can with obsolete legacy and outdated stuff, but it has some good things too. Some of my friends has started use their legacy systems more after I discovered these. All sudden they can things they can do on their new system on older one and it makes them happy. I can tell this is also stuff they don't teach anywhere how get legacy stuff do certain things, it is all trial and error and hours of research but it is rewarding to beat the odds

I do apologize, I'd love to follow the path jumper has started, and or research rebuilding/test alternative run-times/applications. I don't need Pidgen (prefer IRC/BBS[Mystic]/Hotline/KDX), but I enjoy working this kind of thing out. Access to my.... Retro machines? is limited, and free time is gobbled up. Supposedly, this winter will improve the situation (for awhile). @jumper has again stepped up as an upstanding member of the community. Several members here are quite inspirational to me; and I am glad they so willing help other.

Avidemux - https://avidemux.sourceforge.net/ Free program to work with video and audio. It is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. The last XP version of it is hidden - avidemux_2.7.7 r210228_win32.exe Windows Executable 23 MB Feb 28 2021 2:43 PM You can download it here: https://avidemux.org/nightly/win32/ I tested it today with re-coding FullHD videofile of Saturday Night Live S50E20. The problem was that audio is E-AC3. And it need to be usual AC-3 or AAC for my TV and Blu-Ray player. With simple interface it recoded audio to AAC and didn't change video. And i got new saved file with same h.264 video and AAC audio. Took only several minutes. Good program.