As you may already know Renoise supports installation of additional tools to extend software functionality beyond the boundaries of existence.
Here is my personal collection of best addon tools for Renoise.
Super quick breakdown of the most essential security applications for Android OS.
[ADAWAY]
► Effective hosts adblocker [AFWALL+]
► Root-based firewall based on Linux ip-tables [EXODUS]
► Check your applications for telemetry trackers and secure your privacy [YET ANOTHER CALL BLOCKER]
► quality open-source call blocker Forked mod for Russia region
. Fork is manadatory thing for people living in a Russia because access to application online database was blocked by Czech owner, due to war initiated by bunker rat.
No bla-bla-bla here. Just a little breakdown of best computer games ever.
[Fallout 1/2]
[X-COM: Enemy Unknown]
[Transport Tycoon Deluxe]
[Tyrian 2000]
[Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl]
[Civilization II]
[Diablo I]
[The Incredible Machine III]
If you would like to play these games on modern computer you are in luck, coz most of them were forked to open-source or remastered versions.
[Fallout Restoration]
[OpenXcom]
/ Extended version
[OpenTTD]
[OpenTyrian]
[Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl OGSR]
[Civilization II:Test of Time]
[Diablo II: Resurrected]
And yeah, no cyberpunk 2077 here.
I suppose that many of you will be interested in looking at the most important operating systems of the past. Today it is possible even withour virtual machine. You can observe vintage operating systems right in your browser. [ATARI ST]
[MACOS 7]
||| [ver II]
[MACOS 8]
[AMIGA OS]
[WINDOWS 98]
BONUS PART
[CHIPTUNE.COM]
chiptune tracker music site heavily inspired by Amiga OS Workbench v1.3. Imagery by spacedrone808 @Adobe Imagery by spacedrone808 @Freepik
I already wrote about [Neutron player]
.
Provided information will be useful if you are using Neutron with high resolution digital audio player [DAP] and would to like
squeeze a bit more of that quality.
Here is a list of the most important settings to maximaze your audio output to the boundaries of existence.
UPDATED ON: 2023-11-23
¶ ESSENTIAL INTRODUCTION Finally I get up all one’s courage to compile and publish essential stuff regarding Windows 7 optimization. Note that full version of the guide will be released somewhere around early 2023. Check the warm place to stay on the edge. And now….Let’s dive into the tweaking process!
All console commands should be executed from command line with with administrative privileges. Most of mentioned tweaks could be done via control panel, to enter it in a fast way just type in command line or execute Start Run:
Crew was kindly advised by [Belka205]
Some recent hits at your disposal.
Crappy YT can show
This live event is no longer available. Just reload the page couple of times to fix things up.
[KAELAN MIKLA - HVÍTIR SANDAR FEAT. ALCEST]
[KAELAN MIKLA - STORMURINN]
[KAELAN MIKLA - ÓSÝNILEG]
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UPDATED ON: 2023-02-15 Secure Boot now supported [officially]
!
▒ HARDWARE Motherboard: Gigabyte X570 Aorus Ultra BIOS: F34 [F35b breaks compatibility with Windows 7]
I think that guide will be useful due to nightmarish non-ergonomic structure of Gigabyte’s BIOS menus.
▒ UEFI vs MBR Windows 7 supports UEFI only partially, there is no native handling of this modern tech. I don’t see any reason to use UEFI, only if you want to boot from drive which is larger than 2TB.
UPDATED ON: 2023-02-06 v1.0b: please [contact me]
if you find errors or inaccuracies.
In this guide i will quickly show my system configuration tweaked for privacy. I’m using essential stuff like 3G/4G/WiFi & BT. Additional pleasantries are blocked.
█ ANDROID 8: OS WITH MINIMAL TELEMETRY Operating System: Android 8.0 [Android 8.1 ain’t good, coz it brought support of neural networks to do effective data mining] Security patch: 1st September 2018 FW Version: 47.
It is a known fact that dxomark resource
is a complete sellout and very prone to assign fake rankings. And no one in sane condition will use their results as a reference, because of their prepaid nature. dxomark’s cool conclusion of the past
that iphone is better then [Nokia PureView 808]
in terms of detail, makes me laugh till today.
Days go by and it looks like we have another “winner” here – [dpreview]
, to be precise.
UPDATED ON: 2023-08-04
IMPROVING FIREFOX PRIVACY & SECURITY FIREFOX ADDONS [Part I]
Finally I’ve managed to finish this part of the FAQ. Note is a loooong-read, so mistakes can occur » please [report them to me]
.
One of the most distinctive features of FireFox was customization. With each new version it becomes less customizable, thanks to marketing people at mozilla corp. They do everything to make Firefox look like google chrome.
UPDATED ON: 2023-08-21
All batch files are tested under Windows 7 x64.
► SHUTDOWN PUTER shutdown /p /f ► REBOOT PUTER shutdown /r /f /t 0 ► RESTART AUDIO SERVICE net stop "AudioSrv"
net start "AudioSrv" ► DISABLE HIBERNATE powercfg -h off ► DISABLE/ENABLE LAN INTERFACES netsh interface set interface name="Local Area Connection" admin=disabled netsh interface set interface name="Local Area Connection" admin=enabled Where: Local Area Connection ◄ the name of your network connection
Some really quick software lists with information on which version of application is a last one to run on Windows 98/2000/XP/7.
[Windows 98SE Gold]
[Windows 98SE KeX]
[Windows 2000 SP4]
[Windows XP SP3]
As for Windows 7 SP2 ESU i maintain my [personal list of trusted’n’latest software]
. Coz Seven is my daily driver system. So Windws 7 list will be constantly updated!
Don’t forget about my [dedicated WINDOWS 98/2000/XP/7 support page]
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And will not sing praises on how cool Linux is. Because I know that it has its own quirks and inconveniences. For testing I almost randomly choose [Manjaro Linux]
with lightweight [XFCE desktop]
. Manjaro is based upon [Arch distribution]
.Yeah, ubuntu is too much pop for me. Key benefits of Manjaro are quite transparent: modern & stable environment and pretty vibrant community. I understand that Linux don’t have all software, which I need and try to find software replacement in a while.
In case you are wondering regarding status and the main purpose of my blog feed. Here is some legal stuff you might want to know.
SITE WILL NEVER CONTAIN FOLLOWING THINGS:
ADS “TRENDY” NEWS POLITICS COVID NONSENSE ALSO YOU DON’T HAVE TO:
SUB PUT LIKES SHARE STUFF WRITE COMMENTS All these boring things you can do in your favorite social-scroll-down-network [if you have such]. But instead of this monotonous stuff I’d rather go for a lil` stroll in a local park.
UPDATED ON: 2024-10-26 NOTE: list will be updated in the future [final renewal is planned somewhere around 2028]. List of essential software needed for smooth and hassle free system performance. I use these applications on a daily basis. Selection is really private, but nevertheless of this fact I want to share my knowledge with you. List doesn’t contain any microsoft or adobe products. Sorted by usage frequency.
Also i’ll do my best to provide final Windows 7 compatible versions of software.
DON'T EVEN THINK THAT WINDOWS 7 IS DEAD!
Official extended support for Windows 7 operating system [ended on January 14, 2020]
. Home users can’t extend support for the operating system while business and enterprise customers may extend support by up to three years [till January 14, 2023]
, to be precise. This is done by joining the ESU program which is available per machine [business] or per user [enterprise].
Here is a short breakdown of the most frequently used commands, which could be launched from the START menu. [WIN] + R ► START ► RUN ► …. CONTROL PANEL control panel LAN CONNECTIONS ncpa.cpl REMOTE DESKTOP mstsc SYSTEM SERVICES services.msc USER CONTROL PANEL control userpasswords2 MICROSOFT CONFIG TOOL msconfig DIRECTX DIAGNOSTICS TOOL dxdiag SYSTEM INFORMATION msinfo32 REGISTRY EDITOR regedit TASK SCHEDULER taskschd.msc GROUP POLICY EDITOR gpedit.msc Imagery by spacedrone808 @Adobe Imagery by spacedrone808 @Freepik
UPDATE 2021-10-11: Added Excellent [APKGrabber]
▓ ALTERNATIVE FIRMWARE As for firmware, I recommend to use [LineAgeOS]
if your device is supported. Neat FW with minimal tracking and no bloat from big corps. If there is no native LineAgeOS support check [XDA forum threads]
for unofficial ports by community enthusiasts. If your device is not supported in both cases I do not recommend to update stock firmware to prevent bloat’n’telemetry installation.
The roots of bench-marking tools come from [Demoscene]
.
The most quality products were crafted by Finnish and Russian coders.
Here is a little breakdown of most notable benchmarks just for your convenience.
UPDATED: 2021-10-05
Some good old-school sites regarding ‘puters and technology. I will update this post when stumble upon something very cool.
[Razorback95]
► cool guy doing retro stuff [DXZeff]
► small vintage computer forum, also guy has pretty neat YT channel [Retro revival blog]
► excellent selection of vintage software [Vogons forum]
► the most important place for old school gamers [Old-games.ru portal]
► very vibrant old games Russian community
Software is not perfect. Windows, Linux or any other OS. It doesn’t really matter. In this quick note, I will talk about Windows operating system.
For basic deleting of stucked files big chance that you are already using utility like Unlocker or smth. However, some time ago Unlocker was caught in spreading malware, so no trust to this application anymore. As for me, I prefer [Lock Hunter]
instead.
And what about frozen processes?
Even mighty Windows 7 comes with preinstalled junk. Yeah, you can’t go wrong with Microsoft.
In this posting I’ll point you out some bloated stuff, that don’t need regular home user on normal basis.
All of these should be removed to save your disk space and improve system performance.
Quick breakdown of the most powerful AMD-based cards for legacy operating systems.
[X850XT PE]
► WINDOWS 98 [official drivers]
/ Omega drivers
] [HD 3870 X 2]
► WINDOWS 2000 [official drivers]
plus some INF tinkering, will review that one later on [HD 5970]
► WINDOWS 2000 [Blackwingcat hacks]
[R9 270X]
► WINDOWS XP [official drivers]
[6950XT]
► WINDOWS 7 [official drivers]
◄ currently rocking on that one under Windows 7 wing.
Straight’n’essential advice: do not use google, yahoo, bing, yandex, rambler or mail.ru. More trust goes out to [DuckDuckGo]
. However, even they have not so good reputation if we look into the past dealings with Yahoo.
Use [StartPage]
if you want to get results similar to google, but beware that they are not exactly the same. Startpage removes some stuff and adds some of it’s own. In general, it is proxy to google with so-called de-anonymized search queries.
UPDATED ON: 2024-01-04
Addons, addons, addons!! So many of them! How to choice the right one? Whom to trust to? I will help you with your findings and share my personal experience.
Rule of thumb: do not install too much addons, they will slow down your browser noticeably!
░ SECURITY ADDONS [uMatrix]
► best content blocker ever, even better than uBlock [Github archive]
[Ublock Origin]
► an efficient blocker. Easy on CPU and memory.
UPDATED ON: 2023-11-23
There are already plenty of excellent articles explaining why [WINDOWS 10]
/ [WINDOWS 11]
IS A COMPLETE SH#T. So, I better be quick not to be pain in the neck or a master of boredom. Essential question: “Why you don’t like modern Windows?”
Ah, yeah… one more new link, even better than previous! [A THOUSAND REASONS NOT TO USE WINDOWS 10]
░ DESIGNED BY MARKETING PEOPLE… …not engineers
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