+----------------------------------------------------------+ + + + Important announcement: + + + + For technical reasons I no longer have constant access + + to the Internet, so this Gopher will be updated rarely. + + However, I am glad that during this time I was able to + + collect all the relevant and useful programs and drivers + + for Windows 9x-XP in one place. With this collection + + sotfware and scripts that have helped me for many years, + + you can achieve the level of modern computers based on + + legacy systems. I hope this project will expand space + + and interest in Gopher Space. I hope it will also allow + + you to take a new look at your old computers. I'm not + + talking good bye. I say until we meet again. + + I'm glad you can enjoy the world of Canceled Software + + whether I have access to this server or not. Thanks for + + visiting! + + + + Mr. Roman + + + +----------------------------------------------------------+ N.E.W.S: 12 October 2024 A collection of 7525 icons for Desktop from the 90s of the 20th century has been added to the Desktop themes for Win9x and wallpapers section. --- 6 October 2024 Now, thanks to the patches I have selected for Windows 95 OSR2, which I have placed in the section "Actual browsers for Windows 98", you can visit sites with TLS 1.3 encryption, for example, Wikipedia, directly from Windows 95! Also in the DLL section added five versions of the Microsoft Visual C mfc42.dll library 4.21.0.7160, 4.21.0.7022, 4.21.0.7303, 6.0.8168.0, 6.0.8665.0 for Windows 9x. --- 5 October 2024 A small but important update for all USB storage users. In the section Dos/Windows 9x - XP utilites -> Removable and external storage utilities two utilities for obtaining hardware information about flash drives have been added. One program was created by Chinese developers, the second by Russian ones. My script replic of the 1997 Web chat for PHP7/8 based on files has been added to the PHP scripts section. --- 1 October 2024 I added 20 links to other still active Gopher servers from my browser Favorites to the my first page of the Internet. --- 28 September 2024 In the Doom section, my portable version of Scultag Doom has been added with an addon that replaces standard weapons with real modern weapons. --- 21 September 2024 In the Useful things and widgets section, two programs for observing the starry sky, DeepSky 99 and StarCalc, have been added. And also a game of Tarot cards. In the section Original desktop themes for Win9x and wallpapers the program DeskNite has been added, which shows the starry sky on the desktop in real time. Tested Jabbers Servers Open Fire 3.3.1 and Jabberd 1.0.0 as been added to the Servers and Networks section. Also, a few memes from the 20th century have been added to the links section. --- 14 September 2024 To Other software for legacy PC added subsection Virtualization and emulators. There I added Virtual PC 4.2 for Windows 9x-NT, as well the 8bit computers multi-emulator Emulator 3000. --- 13 September 2024 A some of medical programs have been added to the Other software for legacy PC section. --- 7 September 2024 I accidentally found some useful utilities in my old CD-R. In the Office programs -> Cad's section, programs for drawing a kitchen and planning home rooms were added. In the Networks and servers section, Proxy Server WinGate 3.0 was added in two versions for NT and Win9x. --- 5 September 2024 In the Servers and Networks -> Usenet subsection I have added another News Groups reading client Forte Agent 1.7 --- 1 September 2024 Added some useful links in different sections. I found an old collection of midi ringtones from my push-button phone from the past and therefore created a section with the same name. --- 29 august 2024: In the section office programs->Cad's and design added a9cad CAD system and telescope design utility for Win9x inclusive. --- 26 august 2024: Fixed broken link to NTP server for Windows NT. --- 21 august 2024: A great and simple RSS reader library for PHP8x with Atom feed support for your site added to the Scripts section. --- 19 august 2024: Due to complaints from people about not being able to find anything in search engines, I made updated version of the links directory this time for PHP7. You can download it in the PHP scripts section. Store, exchange any links with friends without censorship and prohibitions! NO SQL! --- 17 august 2024: We are working on creating interactive elements like chat and more in our Gopher Hole. These are long untrodden paths and ways, so we are essentially reopening up the work of scripts in Gopher from zero. Stay tuned. This is an interesting and challenging task. To the links section I have added a new GAG - Autosearch outdated drivers Online. ---- 11 august 2024 Whenever I have free time, I continue to dig up useful programs for legacy systems. This time I involved some techies I knew. And here's what else I brought you, given yesterday's update. Calculators for make lasers, as well as Engineering Power Tools s a library of engineering programs that can be used to quickly solve a wide range of commonly encountered engineering problems instant access to over 70 programs and data tables added to the useful widgets section. These are technical programs that are highly respected in the technical community. ---- 10 august 2024 Two scientific programs have been added to the useful widgets section, this is CwGet morse decoder via a sound card and a program that creates a Densitometer from your computer. --- 1 August 2024 I continue the theme of free independent communication of the early 2000s. In the section of other useful programs I have added three portable versions of IRC clients: Best IRC, Xchat, Hydra IRC. In the Networks and Servers section, I added the world's smallest IRC server for Windows - sPRINT. And also instructions for it. --- 30 july 2024 Restoring the old information about IRC servers software took a lot of work and sweat. But I am happy to be able offer any visitor a wide selection of IRC servers software for Windows, which will allow you to create your own indenpendent communication center on any junk computer. This time I have specially prepared for you a portable version of the IRC server WircSrv5.07s. This is a wonderful simple product with a lot of flexible settings. Just unpack and use! --- 29 july 2024 In the Networks and Servers section I added another else IRC server - IRCplus 1.5 Fixed for Windows. With this solution you can create your own IRC chat server based on a computer from any trash. --- 28 july 2024 We have some technical issues with the server. I apologize for the inconvenience. --- 25 july 2024 In the servers and networks section, I added a simple CSO:// client for the CCSO servers in the SMTP/MAIL subsection, and I also uploaded a professional corporate IRC server Confrence Rooms 1.7 with a simple and clear GUI. --- 21 july 2024 Final chords. I collected all games and console emulators that work perfectly without lag on my Pentium 133 with 32 MB of RAM and upoaded them in the Games section. Now nothing will be lost for sure. This games is portables and do not require installation. --- 20 july 2024 My friends, are exist programs that can replace many different software packages. Usually such programs written by people who are not commercial developers. I bring to your attention a program for mass text replacement using a template inside many files with the ability to change encodings HTMLchanger from the office programs section. --- 15 july 2024 With the growing interest of people to BBS, I decided to additionally place Telnet terminals for Windows. In the section of other useful programs, I placed Telnet terminals that I have tested many times: NetTerm 3/4, MTelnet32, TaraTerm32, NetRunner 0.09, ExTerm 1.2, NT CRT 3.46, Sync Term 1.0 as well as a patch with fix displaying ASCII graphics in the Windows console. Also, in order not to go through the CD-R disks twice, I added two classic IRC clients to the same section: Pirch98 and Visual IRC. Veterans of IRC battles know what this is. The SSH client for Windows 9x/NT has been added to the Server and network software section. AND! Added another old UNIX TALK network protocol, but with a Windows client! This was a unique thing that allowed Windows users to communicate with UNIX MainFrames users. I think this update will help increase the lifespan of your Legasy systems and abandoned/ alternative network protocols. Thanks! --- 12 july 2024 Today I added utilities to the useful widgets section: program for teaching Morse code, a TV screen tuning grid, calculator of inductors, selector of resistors by color. A COM port AT terminal has been added to the section of other useful programs. In the office software section I added file converter to UTF8 encoding. Also, especially for you, in this section I have placed my portable version of the Front Designer 3.0 program. This is a simple CAD utility for drawing various kinds of labels on cans, packaging and elsewhere. --- 9 july 2024 Always exist something else! I added a new subsection to the Other software for legacy PC section, Psychotronic tech and fields. In this section I have placed a program for generating brain waves used in brainwashing, as well as additional presets for it. Also i was adds some programs that can cause epileptic seizures and altered states of consciousness. A micro program has been added to the utilities section that shows MD5 hashes for files, a utility for an expanded number of non-printable Unicode characters has been added to the DLL/wrappers/mappers section, and a micro utility has been added to the local networks section that allows you to directly transfer files via the TCP/IP protocol. Everything works in Windows 98/XP. --- 8 july 2024 I added three more useful programs: ABC file converter a program for mass converting documents from old text file formats, XYPlorer - a replacement for the standard Windows Explorer, and another professional calculator, Moff free calc. --- 7 july 2024 The icing on the cake of the latest updates are very small and useful utilities that I finished tested. 1) Dos Navigator+ another build of console file manager; 2) Earch screen saver - screensaver shows the illumination of our planet; 3) Moon phase - very simple moon phase program; 4) Win CB utils - console programs for working with clipboard; 5) File Case - files name case changer; 6) Hardware monitor tool for Win9x; 7) Scanner provides a visualization of your media usage; 8) WFil2PRN is a designed to copy files directly to print; 9) UniFlash is a flash program, used to write a new BIOS on your FLASH ROM Chip. --- 6 july 2024 A pack with 6 very small graphic utilities has been added to the Office tools for legacy PCs. In the Useful Utilities section, I have added three calculator programs: Hcalc, Riona Calc, and Solve Expressions Calc. The latter two could potentially serve as a simple replacement for MathCad. The Finger:// client has been added to the Servers and Networks section, along with a utility for forcing programs to use proxy servers. --- 3 july 2024 A big update that I finally organized. Firstly, I added navigation tips for all sections. Now programs have their own subcategories. And it's convenient. What will I please you with this time? This is what was found in these endless archives of old CD disks and will be useful to us today: 1) Edmark educations widgets pack for childrens 8 in 1; 2) Windows 95 power toys; 3) Pin and password saver software; 4) Mws Snapshot software; 5) Cursor clock for Windows 9x; 6) Simple clock; 7) Database of Egyptian hieroglyphs; 8) Powerful calculator Calc 98; 9) Program for constructing algebraic graphs; 10) Converter of units and quantities; 11) Gimp 1.9 for Win32 graphic editor; 12) Visua photo graphic effects program; 13) Explorer extension for decoding encrypted files, for example Base64; 14) Fs Hex viewer and editor; 15) Ptfb and ZdKey wrappers; 16) AutoIt program for automatically pressing menu keys; 17) AX dll's pack for Windows 9x; 18) Hdd scan util for Windows 2000/XP; 19) HDD Wipe util for Windows 2000/XP; 20) Palmail very small mail POP3 client. ADS: DOS & Don'ts. A Modern Newsletter for Vintage-minded Folks http://dosanddonts.mywebcommunity.org --- 1 july 2024 I continue my experiments. Script for multiple connections to IRC servers has been added to the Mirc scripts section. I added another php chat to the section of my scripts developments on Php 5x. This time it is a simple chat room similar to an IRC channel room for communication without users registration, a replica of the original chat from 1997. This is a very economical chat for you resources, even if there are will be 100 people in room, your server will not notice its work. --- 28 june 2024 Today update scientific widgets. Added the Orbitron satellite monitoring program (updated online even in Windows 98), also added an assistant for creating electronic circuits using TDSL vacuum tubes, a slide rule simulator and abacus calculation, as well as a regular algebraic calculator for education that provides visual indications about the real roots of an equation. --- 26 june 2024 Added a library for running VB programs to the DLL section, added a powerful graphical utility iManiac for abandoned Internet protocols to The servers and networks -> finger section, added a sound check program to the widgets section, Windows 9x/XP reboot programs, a reminder to drink water, text encryption program. --- 24 june 2024 I finished viewing and testing programs from this CD-R. As a result, out of 12 programs for working with graphics, only three turned out to be efficient and convenient: Embelish, 20/20, Art Gem. All of these are photo editors created specifically for viewing and processing photos using a variety of effects. I especially recommend the 20/20 utility. I uploaded all this to the Office programs -> Graphics software section. --- 23 june 2024 I finished checking the archives from my old CD-R disk. Unfortunately, not all file managers turned out to be useful. Nevertheless, I have added 12 file managers for Windows and the console, among them there are both very simple and convenient programs, and serious things for professionals. I added a utility for organizing Mp3 music catalogs to the office program section, added the world's smallest email client for POP3 to the other programs section, and added a quick notes utility and virtual menus for the system tray to the widgets section. --- 21 june 2024 Guys, thanks for the feedback. Yes, I know that you can find a computer in a trash heap and use it for full-time work. Yes, I also know that most of the application programs presented here work fine even in Windows 8. Thus, we come to the conclusion that virtually nothing has changed over the past 20 years. Let's think about this. Continuing to sort through my archives, I found an interesting CD-R disc. There are a lot of interesting things on it. Gradually I will upload everything here. Two spreadsheets KyPlot and Sphygmic, as well as two full-fledged office packages 602 PcSuite 2001 Pro and Budgie Office have been added to the office programs section. You will be surprised how small and functional they are. In the widgets section I added WinGlobe, an algebaric and programmable calculator, as well as an extension for quickly sending Copy To files. In the system utilities section, I added a program for monitoring system resources, as well as a system for collecting data of your hard drive - DiskData. I also discovered that I have more than 25 different file managers and something else. Once I've tested everything it in the virtual machine, then I'll host it in Gopher. --- 17 june 2024 More than ten libraries and components necessary for the work of some programs in Windows 9x-2000/Xp have been added to the DLL's section. --- 13 june 2024 This time I updated myself with very rare, one might even say exotic, but very useful programs. I bet you have never heard of these programs and you will be surprised how convenient, economical and wonderful they are. List of software: 1) Ef Commander - file manager for Win32; 2) Ranish ZeroServ 1.8 - antiADS http server; 3) Xrat amazing similar WinAmp mp3 player; 4) GrafX bitmap console paint; 5) Mt Paint - windows photo editor; 6) Stp mp3 player - very small and economical mp3 player; 7) ProTray - changing wallpapers in Win9x for one click; 8) 5Ranish Partition Manager - little DOS manager; 9) XOSL Boot Manager - graphic boot manager for DOS; 10) Wmemory for Win9x - system resource monitoring; 11) Disk Free for Win32 - monitoring of hard drives in real time. --- 4 june 2024 Added facts I know about the dead internet. --- 3 june 2024 The latest update is large in number of programs, but small in size. Almost all sections have been updated, more than a hundred small programs and utilities useful for your legacy Windows. At this point, the dig of my old archives is 100% complete. --- 1 june 2024 The Gophoogle link directory has been updated with new links, and broken links have been removed. Thank you all for reading these lines. This is important to Gopher if you are reading anything here. --- 30 may 2024 A new section has been created with Wrappers, DLL's, mappers not included to other sections. --- 28 may 2024 Residual update left over from the previous time. Added floppy disk formatting utility for Windows, ACDSee image viewer 3.1 and Text Magican text util. --- 27 may 2024 6 programs have been added to the useful widgets section: a screen ruler, screen capture utilities, and a fractal generation program. In the section of useful office programs, the graphics subsection, I added 18 small but very useful utilities. These are image viewers, programs for working with color and tags, several simple 2D CAD systems that will work everywhere, as well as programs for drawing diagrams, working with file icons and creating GIF animations. It looks like my epic with digging up my old works archives is coming to an end. Since the archives are gradually running out. Although perhaps I will find something else on the forgotten disks. I know from my own experience how big a problem with Legacy systems for to find one place where you can download everything you need for them is too hard. In the near future I plan to sort through the archives of DLL libraries and mappers. And this concludes the current batch of my old archives. --- 26 may 2024 I finished uploading exotic and not very server software for Windows NT family. Server and client programs for the following network protocols have been added to the server and network software section: WAIS, XMPP, TIME, SSH, SMTP (mail), FINGER, DICT, DAYTIME, NTP. Three new GAG's have also been added to the links section. I continue to rake through the archives, next in line are the necessary DLLs for Windows and mappers. --- 25 may 2024 I continue to update our gopher. This time I uploaded 16 new utilities, mostly widgets. As usual, everything except the virtual CD works simultaneously in Windows 98-XP. Added to the useful widgets section: - 3000 Years Calendar; - Calendar Painter; - Contact book; - Lofty Homebrew Helper; - Program for creating secret messages in JPG image; - Pneu Calc; - Sundial design program; - Mini personal organizer - Today; - VBadge L4, office ID card creation program; - Words cracker - crosswords helper; - Moon Phase; - RAS ensitivity radio telescope program creation; - Desktop stickers util; - Food comp; - Powerful yet lightweight organizer KTnote; Added to the other software section: - Hekko Virtual CD for Windows XP. --- 24 may 2024 I continue to upload many useful utilities from my old archives. This time, utilities for copying DVD discs to AVI/ISO have been added to the other useful programs section. This is DVD Decrypter 3.5.4.0 and DVDx 2.3. A number of quick and simple utilities have been added to the server software section. Ftp clients: - FTP Explorer; - CF Simple FTP; - Free FTP Commander. Usenet client: - Free Newsgroup Commander; Telnet client: - HyperTerminal Private Edition 6.3. As always, all programs work equally well in Windows 98 and Windows XP. The next update will be dedicated to useful widgets, of which I also have a lot in my archives. --- 23 may 2024 I continue to dig out my old file archives. I added five more text editors (not notepads) to the office utilities section, as well as two programs for storing multiple text fragments in clipboard. This is: 1) Mega Hyper Text Editor; 2) Poly Edit Lite; 3) Qjot Editor; 4) SText Viewer; 5) TeXE8; 6) Nippy Clippy; 7) Clipboard Express. --- 22 may 2024 I continue to slowly but surely look through my old archives. I have added five more new GUI utilities for working with files to the file managers section. This is: 1) Ab commander lite; 2) Easy Explorer; 3) Gyula's Navigator; 4) Turbo Navigator; 5) File ANT 2007. In office section added Notepad's ultimatum pack for Win32 by Roman. A collection of 12 Notepad-like programs for Win32: 2x editor, Mdipad, Notehalf, Writing Pad, Hesky Software Pad, Home Site Html Editor, Html Text Editor, Tab Pad, Tray Pad, Unreply, Win Pad, Wide Html Editor. Everything works in Windows 98 - Windows XP! --- 19 may 2024 Added GAG "rest in nature" (do nothing) to the links section and Angel writer without a spell check function to office sofware section. --- 17 may 2024 I added a very nice and free spreadsheet for all versions Windows to the office software section. Abykus 3.0 is a compact spreadsheet with a simple interface that allows up to 32 separate worksheets to be loaded at one time. It requires less than 3 mb to install, yet offers over 190 built-in functions, a built-in script language, and a full statistics package. --- 2 may 2024 Added another else Gopher client for Android. So I got three Gopher clients for Android. What I also wrote about in questions about connecting to Gopher. --- 30 april 2024 Two Gopher clients for Android have been added to the mobile applications section: Overbite android 0.2.6 and Diggie Dog Gopher Client 1.5.2 --- 28 april 2024 Minor inaccuracies have been eliminated and minor corrections have been added. Angel Writer, a text editor for Windows 98, has been re-uploaded, along with instructions and non-English spelling dictionaries. If you have problems, please report them to the guestbook or email. --- 19 april 2024 While I have free time, I continue to restore prank gopher pages direct from the 90s of the 20th century. Added new 8 links to the Links section. --- 16 april 2024 I added 10 more joke - pages to the links section straight from the 90s of the 20th century! --- 15 april 2024 I found my old archive with the latest versions of archivers released for Windows 98. I double hecked it, repacked it and uploaded it to the "other programs" section. In fact, the claim that only 7zip 9.04 works well in Windows 98 among the newer archivers is a big misconception. Added: - Pear zip portable 5.5.1; - Arj 3.20 console version; - Freebyte Zip 2.3.1 --- 14 april 2024 The links section has been updated - "First Page of the Internet", links to guest books and some Gopher catalogs have been added. Another joke added to bottom of the my hole. --- 9 april 2024 Added to "First page of Internet" section links to Gopher guest books known to me. An archive with Microsoft desktop games from older versions of Windows has been added to the "other games section". This is: Checkers, Marbles, Minessweper, Mshearts, Pinball, Solitair and Spider. --- 8 april 2024 Finished my documenting rally text based browsers with images and TLS 1.3 support for Windows Xp. Thus, the section of current browsers for Windows XP has been replenished with two more text based graphic browsers for slow systems and the Internet. These are QtWeb browser 3.7 and Net Serf 3.10 browser. Two microscopic versions of Process Info for Windows 9x/XP have been added to the useful patches and utilities section, designed to view the current system processes in memory. In the section of other useful programs, Password Unlocker has been added for forgotten (***) passwords in software. --- 6 april 2024 In the section of actual browsers for Windows XP added two more links to modern browsers for this system. --- 2 april 2024 The most important update in recent times! I spent a lot of time finding programs for Windows 98 that fully work with DocX files. Unfortunately, I can't find anything on the modern Internet, so I had to test a couple of dozen utilities until I found something that really worked. Thus, I added to the office utilities section: 1) DocX2Rtf converter for Windows 98 2) Abdio Word DocX reader for Windows 98 I also added the following necessary office programs that you cannot live without: 1) SoftMaker Office 2010 portable for Windows XP Just amazing office suite, better than M$ Office 2007 2) Angel writer for Win32, little RTF editor 3) Atlantis Nova 1.0 tiny RTF word processor 4) Lview Pro 2006 for Win32. Graphics viewer Added to the file managers section: 1) MeeSoft commander 1.40 for Win32 2) Alt Commander for Win32 Added to the patches and utilities section: 1) Cpu Core temp for Windows XP+ 2) Anvir Task Manager for Win32 Free AnVir Task Manager provides convenience by offering all of its features in a single interface. This big update fixes major issues I've had with Windows 98 and Windows XP computers that I've been resolving recently. --- 1 april 2024 Opening DocX under Windows98 is like a three-body problem. It seems that there is a solution, but it always has its own peculiarities. There will be details in a while. I'm on the way to give you soon a third solution that allows you to work with DocX files in Windows 98. Stay tuned! --- 30 march 2024 Wi-Fi for Windows 98/2000 update. I continue to sort through old notes and archives in search of things worthy of being placed in eternal storage in GopherSpace. For some reason unknown to me, pages with information about Wi-Fi support for Windows 98/2000 were blocked. I had to spend some time searching for these lost utilities. Thus, I present to your attention an update to the "Networks" section with Wi-Fi clients for Windows98/2000. Now you can download six different Wi-Fi network clients in one place. Three clients for Windows 98 and three clients for Windows 2000. Another couple of years and there won't be anything useful left in HTTPs... Move to Gopher before it's too late... --- 29 march 2024 Remembering of the fun old days of the late 90's and early 2000's, I've added some fun pages of my own to the links section. 1) Last page of Internet 2) Spray against idiotic questions 3) Vaccine against stupidity 4) Internet off switch 5) Official Micro$oft Notepad Gopher 6) Page for real man 7) Useless link page 8) Erotic page for Dial Up --- 28 march 2024 I turned the links section into the first page of the Internet and called this place Gophoogle. I know a lot of people complain that they can't figure out Gopher logic. This place was created specifically as an entry point for all wanderers who were accidentally brought here. I replaced the buggy Foxit PDF DocX Viewer with my portable version of TexMaker Viewer 2009 for Windows XP. Just unzip the archive and work with documents. --- 27 march 2024 Portable and very convenient modern up-to-date email clients running in Windows 9x-XP have been added to the section of "other useful programs". --- 22 march 2024 Added a graphical text browser for Windows XP Linx graphic with TLS 1.3 support. Text browser for Windows 98 Lynx, resource extraction utility for Windows 98 and file extension administration utility for Windows XP. A portable version of the text browser Lynx 2.8.5 rel 1 from 2024 has also been added, running on Windows 98-Xp, see the section of other useful programs. --- 19 march 2024 Unfortunately, the Jarte text editor did not live up to expectations, as it requires the installation of an additional Microsoft update package to work with DocX documents. It has been replaced by my portable versions of AbiWord for Windows 98 and Windows Xp. The portable version for Windows XP perfectly opens DocX files without additional system update packages. --- 18 march 2024 I continue upload to our Gopher my portable rebuilds and repacks. All programs work equally well in Windows 98 and Windows XP. Here's what I added: 1) Nokia monitor test - portable version 2) Active undelete - portable version 3) Norton Ghost 8.2 - portable version 4) Password Renew tool - portable version 5) Process Explorer XP - portable version 6) Uninstall tool - portable version 7) Restorator - Dll editor - Full version 8) Folder Guard - Full version 9) Blue tooth utilites - Full version 10) Network stress test - portable version 11) Captain Nemo Multiplatform file manager - portable version 12) "Little office" for Windows 98 by Roman - portable version 13) Small CD writer - portable version 14) Archive Password Recovery tool - Full version 15) Office Password Recovery tool - Full version --- 17 march 2024 I have uploaded my new special portable version of the my "Little office suite" for Windows 98. It allows you to avoid installing heavy office packages. Everything works without any problems on a Pentium 133 and 32 MB of RAM. --- 13 march 2024 The 3dfx emulator for Direct 9.0+ nGlide has been added to the drivers section. --- 7 march 2024 Small update to the "Useful things and widgets" section. --- 28 feb 2024 I took into account your wishes. I added programs for working with sound and converting sound, additional players, utilities for working with CD/DVD discs, as well as more archivers. Thus, I had to expand the section of other programs. Send your suggestions to me by echo-mail or in the guest book. --- 25 feb 2024 Added to other programs section Emulator AY-3-8910 ZX spectrum, player and Music Ripper with music from abyssice.trd (is received from FIDO, ZX.SPECTRUM) abyssice.diz is original and come with abyssice.trd together. --- 22 feb 2024 In the section of browsers for Windows XP posted links to actual browsers in 2024 for this operating system, as well as Windows 2000 and 2003. --- 18 feb 2024 Actual video codecs and players for Windows 95-Me/2000/NT systems have been added to the office programs section. Also added USB Guard 5.3.20 - protection against automatic install viruses via USB and other removable drives for Windows 98/Me/2000/XP to the Utils section. --- 17 feb 2024 A port of the Doom game for Windiws 9x/2000/XP Doomsday Engine 1.8.3 with support of the Open GL and high screen resolutions support has been added to the Doom section. NewWolf for Win32 - OpenGl version of a favorite game has been added to the Wolf games section. --- 11 feb 2024 Two replacements for Notepad for Win32 systems have been added to the office programs section, as well as a text editor for Windows XP with DocX support. The Putty 0.61 terminal running on Windows 98 has also been added. --- 9 feb 2024 The GoOO Office package has been added to the office programs section, which opens DocX and XlsX files from M$ Office 2007+. The package is compiled by ToughDev based on the Chinese GoOO Office and OpenOFFICE 2.4.1. Thus, this is the only full-fledged modern office for Windows 98/ME/NT. A Shell32 update patch for Windows 95 has been added to the patches and utilities section for connecting network printers and drives. --- 8 feb 2024 I was added instructions for working with Gopher for beginners. I had to structure recommendations for different versions of Windows with an explanation of how to access Gopher from the console, and how to get to Gopher:// from modern Windows. I also added four patches for Window Me. --- 4 feb 2024 I continue to work with my old CD-R discs, so I prepared another update. The Apollo mp3 player, as well as the MouseIMP utility, have been added to the office programs section. The Useful things and widgets section has been updated with many utilities for changing the design of Windows 9x, as well as a screen recording program to the AVI file. The Actual patches and sytem utilites section has been updated with Windows Lite, a tool for editing Windows 98/Me installation for remove Internet Explorer and return to the Windows 95 design. --- 1 feb 2024 Added an image conversion utility and creating images in ASCII graphics for Win32 to Office software section. I continue to review my old CD-R disks with files. This time, some more wonderful programs were discovered: PhotoLine32 and Star photo editor for Win32, the undeservedly forgotten mini-MP3 player 1by1, as well as the partition manager Partition Magic 8.0 for Dos. --- 31 jan 2024 Small update. An image viewer for Win32 Infan View 3.85 has been added to the office utilities section along with additional plugins. Also, when viewing old CD-R discs from 2004, a collection of desktop wallpapers from 1998-2004, downloaded from the old WorldPrints site, was discovered. The archive has been uploaded to the Windows 98 Desktop Themes section. --- 27 jan 2024 Added five different clock programs for Win32, replacing the standard Windows clock in the useful widgets section. Some inaccuracies have been corrected. The work has been completed. Gopher is 100% ready. I no have more big updates planned. --- 22 jan 2024 A Yahoo-like my fully completed working script for a fully functional link directory for small and medium-sized communities has been added to the PHP scripts section. Exchanging links is now easy! Fixed some inaccuracies in my descriptions. --- 18 jan 2024 Sorry about my omission, I forgot an important thing again. WinSCP Portable is a free SFTP (OpenSSL), FTP and SCP client for Windows XP+ with SSH1, SSH2 has been added to the "Servers and Networks" section -> FTP subsection. --- 17 jan 2024 I made a full-fledged HTML download page for my Gopher browser build for modern versions of Windows. Now there is more important and detailed information about the Gopher:// protocol --- 14 jan 2024 I made a build based on a modern browser released in 2024 to work using the Gopher:// protocol for all modern versions of Windows: http://shibboleths.org/roman/ Although testing is still ongoing. In principle, we can say that the browser is working. This is a full-fledged portable browser for Gopher:// and modern versions of Windows. --- 13 jan 2024 The section with hints on how Gopher browsers work had to be corrected. It turns out that native Gopher clients, unlike browsers, do not see backpaths to files. --- 12 jan 2024 Very, very small updates continue. An IRC client for DOS has been added to the "Servers and Networks" section, as well as an mTCP package for working with networks for DOS and IBM PC with 8088 CPU! --- 11 jan 2024 I was forced to add instructions about accessing modern browsers to Gopher:// network on the main page. It turns out that the globalists have removed clear instructions from their sites, and the plugins may not work due to limitations in BigTech company browsers. Other useful programs section has been updated with Lynx's console browsers for Win32 and DOS, allowing you to visit Gopher! --- 10 jan 2024 I created another section with Windows 9x desktop themes and original wallpapers of those times. To this, in principle, I can say that work on my Gopher:// is completed and the project has acquired the form that I planned. I also added a program for detecting the sound card configuration for DOS to the drivers section. Now I can say that this Gopher is a complete tool for working with Legacy systems, allowing you to get the necessary basic programs and updates for your Legacy systems. Just come, download everything you need and work without problems and troubles! --- 9 jan 2024 I uploaded 13 fully Internet Explorer compatible games to test how JS works in Gopher. I also posted a separate archive with all these games in the same section. The experiment confirmed that JS works fine even if you use a Gopher:// server as the host. I'll be working on desktop themes for Windows 9x soon. As it turns out, there are about 50 +/- of these themes in my archives. I need to systematize all this and place it here as well. I haven't found anything else worthy of your and my attention on my old discs. --- Off topic. Experiments... Experiments continue. I made a small section with JS online games for the browser. This is proof that there is no difference between http:// and gopher:// if the browser supports JS. So you can play these Gopher games through Internet Explorer or any other browser. My theory that .htaccess is originally a copy of gophermap is confirmed. The first WWW sites actually used .htaccess as a navigation tool, similar to gophermap. This way, anyone can use JS scripts inside HTML in the Gopher:// protocol as well as in HTTP:// if the browser supports it. You can see the screenshot in the section for yourself. --- 8 jan 2024 You will laugh, but I again forgot about important things dedicated to Legacy systems and working with them. In the patches and utilities section, I uploaded updates for Windows 98/2000 that allow you to run applications from Windows XP/7 with my detailed instructions for installing and updating these systems. --- 7 jan 2024 I had to create a small additional section with scripts for the IRC client MIRC 6x. Only scripts that have been tested over the time have been added there. --- 6 jan 2024 I'm almost finished sorting through my archives. I probably won't make such big updates anymore. In the File Managers section I added 13 programs for the DOS console and for Win32s. I am absolutely convinced that you have never even heard of some of the file managers presented here. However, each such program has important distinctive features that help in your work. In the drivers section, I uploaded the three most important patches for Windows 98. They support for RAM more than 512 mb, support for hard drives more than 137 gigabytes, as well as support for UDF DVD. In fact, I can say that the bulk of my work regarding file archives is finished. And I have already placed all the most important files here. Thanks for using Gopher! --- 5 jan 2024 My update rule is to offer you only those solutions that I have used myself for many years. This time I used old CDs that I recorded in the early 2000s, for my works. In the Servers and Networks section I added MS Lan Manager 2 with support for Novell networks and the remote administration utility for Windows 9x Remote Admin. I have added system tweakers for Windows 9x - XP to the utilities section. In the near future I will go through all the disks and plan to upload the remaining file managers. I also added some descriptions on working with Gopher:// Our Gopher:// was accepted for indexing by the Veronica search engine today. I also conducted experiments on working with my Gopher using Internet Explorer 6.0. And I found these actions quite impressive. Unlike HTTP, in Gopher doesn't have to worry about being unable to access updates and archives from the Internet. I just went in and downloaded everything I needed for Windows 98. It's really great! --- 4 jan 2024 I continue to upload some programs that I undeservedly missed. I had to tinker a lot to find them. So, I uploated three servers of protocols FSP/HTTP for Win32, as well as one FSP client. Moreover, they all have a GUI. The FreeFSP client and OminFSPd server will only take up a couple of hundred kilobytes of your server. A simple IRC server for Win32 with a GUI of 373 kb in size has also been added to the servers and networks section! Thus, any computer from a trash can can turn into a powerful communication hub! --- 3 jan 2024 I'm almost done organizing all my technical experience over these decades. This is the latest massive update with many useful programs and archives to keep your Windows 9x/NT/ XP/DOS systems up to date. Now I'm moving on to more rare updates, since the bulk of the archives have already been selected and uploaded to the server. A file manager section has been added, drivers, utilities, and office sections have been updated. --- 2 jan 2024 The analysis of old archives on old hard drives has been completed. All current programs for Windows 3.x - Windows XP are collected and systematized. Sections of patches, drv, networks, and other programs have been updated. New sections of office programs and useful programs have been created. I continue to systematize my experience, making it accessible to everyone. --- 1 jan 2024 I was find my old hard drives. I began work on copying and systematizing the technical experience I had accumulated on these storage media in the form of program archives. Lots of very useful things. Stay tuned! --- 31 dec 2023 Finally, I finished revising and systematizing all my experience working with industrial networks and legacy industrial engineering equipment. A new section has been created with archives of network and server software with a list of all the protocols that I have used over decades of my working life. Added 32 new unique archives! --- 30 dec 2023 Several new links have been added, and a CPU heating reduction utility for Windows 98 has been added to the patches and utilities section. I started sorting through my very old archives of files. In the near future I will begin to publish programs that I used in the operation of industrial networks based on legacy systems. Lots of unique things. Stay tuned. --- 29 dec 2023 New Year's surprise. I have repack the WinRampage rebuild in such a way that now you can play three parts of the cult game Redneck Rampage in Windows XP. All bugs and version conflicts of executable files, grp file and con files have been fixed. Enjoy your favorite series of games in Open GL on any office computer! --- 28 dec 2023 On the flash drive I found the history of changes in the Local Industrial Portal script. I published it in the same place as the script itself. Added link to Gopher The Undergoround USA. --- 27 dec 2023 I pulled out another old development of mine from the flash drive, created during the works of this development. This thing was created a long time ago. I cleaned it up and reworked it and decided to publish it here. You can download it in the php scripts section called Local industrial portal. p.s. This is one of my first redevelopments, so it is better not to change its source code! --- 26 dec 2023 I continue to publish things based on my experience in operating old industrial systems and equipment. This time I have collected all the drivers and all the patches that allow you to update old systems FAT32/NTFS drivers for Dos and Windows 98-NT. Various kinds of system utilities to make life easier and so on. This is all part of my work to organize my experience in one place. Expect more updates soon. This time I added 13 new archives and created a new section with patches and system utilities. Everything I offer you has been tested with daily use. --- 25 dec 2023 I started testing two new Redneck rampage repacks based on a modern engine. When I finally test everything, I’ll upload it here. These are two additional official addons that many have not heard of. Unfortunately, during testing, problems arose in the game itself while playing on Windows. --- 22 dec 2023 I continue to post things that I use every day along with tips on how to use them. This time I uploaded a very useful utility for Windows XP to the driver section. USB drives formatting utility for Windows XP. Allows you to format large flash cards (over 64 GB) in FAT32. Useful for owners of old household TV or DVD players with USB output. Since it allows you to copy a larger volume of movies by formatting large drives larger than 64 GB in FAT32. Since these devices only support FAT32. And as you know, using standard Windows XP tools it is not possible to format a flash drive larger than 64 GB in FAT32. --- 21 dec 2023 I continue to publish my crafts. This time, in the php scripts section, a deeply revised tree forum script has been published on files adapted for modern browsers. All my php scripts work perfectly on simple industrial single board computers and do not require SQL. Added link to Central Ontario Remote - Gopher & BBS project. --- 20 dec 2023 I continue to add programs that I use every day. This time we have added a very simple and fast IRC client for older Android phones. Minimalistic IRC client for mobile phones based on old Android. Nothing extra, just text. Tested in daily use. You can download it in the section of programs for push-button phones. --- 19 dec 2023 I added another project of mine to the php scripts section, a file-based local echo mail system. I continue to clear away my rubble and look for my old developments to publish. Added link to Ben Collver gopher. If you want to exchange links, then write in the guest book. --- 18 dec 2023 Files upload is complete. Gopher is ready to works. I continue to audit of my archives in search of other rebuilds/repacks that I have done before. --- 17 dec 2023 Started uploading project to the server! --- 12 dec 2023 Finally, I collected all my crafts in one place. Well, or almost. It's look like, i'll add something else when I have time. All that remains is to get the ftp passwords... --- 09 dec 2023 Here will be news...