Want to play your favourite old DOS games on Windows 7? Try DosBox and D-fend frontend conjunction. You will not be disappointed!
[DosBox]
||| [DOWNLOAD]
[D-Fend Reloaded]
||| [DOWNLOAD]
UPDATED ON: 2065-01-04 I will surely return to post to bring update on FINAL version of driver
[Canonkong]
brings [ANOTHER BIG UPDATE]
to the marvellous modern USB3 driver for [Windows 7]
. Latest version: 2025-12-28
SUPPORTED CHIPSETS X370, X399, B450, X470, TRX40, TRX50, A520, B550, PRO565, X570, B560, X670, X870, WRX80(90?)
Recommended motherboards: MSI, Gigabyte Not recommended: Asus [works, but with some restrictions] Not working at all: Asrock
CURRENT VERSION
UPDATED ON: 2024-07-17
New firmware for my [favourite street camera]
has finally landed. Latest update is [v1.91]
. You can download it [here]
[direct download].
Tired of round shaped chrome-like tabs?
These tweaks attempt to recreate the feel of Quantum with its squared tabs and menus, but in the Proton UI. As of FF91, the about:config option to disable proton has been deprecated, leaving CSS as the main way to revert the UI.
Want to bring back minimalistic strict lines and make things more serious?
[Firefox-Proton-Square]
tweak will help ya.
INSTALLATION PROCESS
Enable userChrome.css support Go to about:config toolkit.
Beyond time, lightweight, private, Japanese, mail client.
[DOWNLOAD]
For Android i can recommend [K-9 mail]
client. Note that everything above v5.916 contains mozilla telemetry.
UPDATED ON: 2023-04-18
To keep battery of newly acquired devices safe do the following:
3-4 100% charges to warm up new battery after that do not charge battery above 78-80% do not discharge below 14-15% lower minimimum 20-25% upper maximum 78-80% at least twice a year do a 100% charge keep spare batteries in the fridge at 30% charge state. Storage temperature around +5 Celsius. All you need is one simple tool: [Battery Charge Limit]
.
Just for your information: new versions of KeepassXC can be installed on Windows 7 via legacy installer.
You can download it [HERE]
. Look for Legacy section (64-bit, Windows 7/8/8.1) and you are good to go.
PS On Android i’m using [KeepassDX]
.
UPDATED ON: 2023-03-31
To speed up map rendering a bit turn on [OpenGL]
acceleration in software settings.
In version 4.3 new OpenGL renderer was transferred from hidden settings to generic ones.
Now option can be found here:
≡ Settings ► OsmAnd settings ► Map rendering engine ► Version 2 (OpenGL) It looks like that as of version 4.3.12 all compatibility and performance issues were solved. So, i advice you to install 4.
I think that you already know that you are the reader of very weird blog. So here is another unusual comparison to prove above mentioned statement. Operating system: Windows 7 x64 SP2+ ESU CPUs: Ryzen 9 5950X 16c/32t [Zen 3] and Intel Xeon E5-2696v4 22c/44t [Broadwell] Audio card: ESI Maya 4 EX PCIe Software: Renoise 3.4.2 Settings: ASIO/48Khz/~5ms CPU overload protection: 98%
Benchmark file was created by [Cactoos]
of Renoise community.
UPDATED ON: 2023-08-01 Latest compatible Blender version 3.6.1
Just a super quick note to refresh previous Blender topic.
As you may already know that [Blender 2.93 can work on Windows 7]
even despite the fact that it is not officially supported. [Alexandru Naiman]
went even deeper and it looks like he made the impossible. Now you can run even the most modern versions of Blender. We are speaking about 3.
If [rumoured]
additional three years of Windows 7 support won’t happen than we have an alternative solution.
Usually i don’t advertise non-free services, but this one is an exception. [0patch]
is micro-patching service, which fix problems of Windows 7 in computer RAM on-the-fly rather than changing system files on drive storage. I recommend this one, because i’m going to use it by myself right after ESU updates will come to EOL.
Just plain numbers if somebody care about.
WINDOWS MARKETSHARE [STATCOUNTER]
Windows 7 dropped below 10% barrier.
ANDROID MARKETSHARE [APPBRAIN]
Android 8 holds up around 8% of the market. Btw, Android 6 is fully usable till today [2022/11/23].
FIREFOX DISTRIBUTION [FIREFOX]
Stop using mainstream operating systems like Windows 11/10/8.1, modern Linux, like Ubuntu or modern MacOS versions. On mobile Android 14/13/12/11/10/9/8.1 are prohibited because they use neural networks to profile your device and dial back to “home” to dump your personal data and preferences. iOS from very beginning was very phony platform.
My personal choices are Windows 7 for desktop and Android 8.0 for mobile. These two cover my digital needs fully, no restrictions whatsoever.
Couple days back virtual friend of mine send me a link to awesome website mainly dedicated to [vintage computer fonts]
. I suppose that project’s roots come from demoscene. And yeah, design aesthetics is so cool, just look at that.
Stashing it here for catalogue purposes.
Not long ago [already reviewed]
in the past Firefox forks Icecat
and [Iceweasel]
for some reason went into 404 void due to applied sanctions to Russia.
So, i was forced to find an alternative way and stumbled upon Chinese builds of [Iceweasel]
. Just want to digest this historical fact as a blog post.
Since i’ve switched to [fanless GPU]
from Nvidia and began to monitor Windows 7 driver related news. So, here is a [link to the latest]
to date Windows 7 driver .
It’s really neat to hear that Nvidia is not dropping driver support for Windows Classics
. Red team from AMD can’t demonstrate such coolness in this category.
Lastest GPU drivers for Windows 7 will be available [here]
.
[Essential documentary]
film about creators of [PirateBay]
torrent resource.
TPB AFK: THE PIRATE BAY AWAY FROM KEYBOARD [SOUNTRACK ID NEEDED]
Can anyone identify tracks playing at 15:58 and 58:09? Thoughts of yours can be shared via my [contacts section]
.
Recently [Ghacks.net]
reported about almost unreal rumour regarding [another 3 years of extended support for Windows 7]
. If news are true, consider this as a gift from above, because i can’t stand windows 10/11 abominations and Linux is just not ready for serious multimedia workstation workloads.
In previous posts i’ve [already mentioned]
Andrew Saga’s rants about history of music tracking, but i think that provided info are not covering topic fully. So, here is one more excellent video clip, which i dug up on yt recently. Enjoy!
BBS is acronym which stands for [Bulletin board system]
. It was a distant ancestor of modern internet. In our days of totally non-private web cultivated by google, facebook and apple and other rotten companies BBS could be a neat solution to people who value their privacy and who don’t want to feed greedy corporations with telemery data of their own. Also tech will be useful for people who would like to hide themselves from modern shitty trends and stupid brainwashing or so-called government propaganda.
Non-prepaid vintage hardware reviewer based in UK. Streaming not only about retro tech, but adds some life experience touch. Likes freedom speech and don’t contact much with corrupted government “authorities”.
HIGH TREASON 610 AKA DX ZEFF ===> YT STREAM
<=== [PERSONAL FORUM]
[HT610 SITE]
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.
Just a quick note just to share the most useful YT tutorials regarding Renoise tracker.
[Official Renoise tutorials]
► essential Renoise knowledge [Tutorials from official Renoise guy]
► Achenar [Excellent Renoise tutorials]
► Groovin’in G [Gold mine of Renoise knowledge]
► Brainplace [Very useful tutorials]
► Type-A Music Also i suggest to check [official manuals]
on Renoise website. Quick Reference Card [cheatsheet]
describing pattern commands. And don’t forget to visit vibrant Renoise [community forum]
.
I’m still using trusted [Icecat port by Muslayev]
. Problem is that it begin to show it’s age by not rendering some websites in a correct way.
After checking [Firefox release roadmap]
i find out that 91 ESR branch on which Icecat is based will reach EOL status at the end of the summer. So i’ll need a replacement to keep up with modern web standards. Chrome and original Firefox are not an options because of their telemetry framework and bloated nature.
Have you ever heard about digital audio workstation written in assembly language?
Yeah, that’s [SAW Studio]
.
32-bit version can be launched even in “obsolete” Windows XP.
64-bit version released in 2019 is Windows 7 compatible.
UPDATED ON: 2022-05-21
Today i want to share my custom made 80s theme for Renoise tracker.
RENOISE `84 [v0.4b] [GRAB IT FROM MEGA.NZ]
To install it just double click on downloaded XRNC files. Renoise will launch and install theme automatically.
Also, i’ve figured out how to change internal font and set custom mouse cursor. Tracker doesn’t provide GUI for such options. All settings related to current skin could be found here: