TinyApps.Org Newsletter Issue 23 - October 28, 2002 +++NEWS+++ River II http://www.roninsg.com/riverwha.htm Hundreds of tiny open source programs that can be re- combined to change, display, manage data for almost any purpose. GNUWin II http://gnuwin.epfl.ch/en/index.html Free (as in "free speech" *and* "free beer") software compilation for Windows. ISO image includes OpenOffice, Mozilla, The Gimp, much more. Comprehensive listing of Windows startup items: http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_index.htm +++NEW APPS+++ DLExpert [769k] http://www.yanew.com Download manager with multi-thread, pause/resume, scheduling, auto dial, hangup, shutdown, more. Win32Pad [30k] + http://www.gena01.com/win32pad/ Small and feature-packed Notepad replacement Bart's Network Boot Disk [390k] + http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/network/ Network boot disk with PCI NIC auto-detect, support for TCP/IP, Nwlink and Netbeui, over 100 driver plugins available. MBRWork [16k] + http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/utilities.html Perform some common and uncommon tasks to the MBR/EMBR/Sectors of a hard drive. Savepart [172k] + http://perso.club- internet.fr/guiboure/en/index_frame.html Save, restore and copy hard-drive partitions Roadkil's Unstoppable Copier [62k] + http://download.com.com/3000-2248-10155419.html Copy files from disks (CDs, floppies, hard drives, etc) which have sustained physical damage. DDL [4k] + http://saturn.spaceports.com/~dosuser/dosutils.htm Load DOS device drivers from the command line, without having to reboot. LiteShell [37k] + http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~mosses/liteshell/ Minimalist shell. Access via hotkeys and/or context menu. Drop To DOS [10k] + http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/utilities.html With Drop to DOS, you can right click on any folder and choose the Drop to DOS option to take to you a command prompt within that folder. +++MINUMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS FOR WINDOWS+++ Windows 95 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q138349 CPU: 386DX RAM: 4MB HARD DRIVE SPACE: 50-55MB Windows 98 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q182751 CPU: 486DX 66MHz RAM: 16MB HARD DRIVE SPACE: 140-255MB Windows NT 4.0 http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstation/ProductInformation/ProductOverview/sy stemrequirements/default.asp CPU: Pentium RAM: 16MB HARD DRIVE SPACE: 110MB Windows 2000 Professional http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/professional/evaluation/sysreqs/default .asp CPU: 133MHz RAM: 64MB HARD DRIVE SPACE: 650MB Windows XP Professional http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/evaluation/sysreqs.asp CPU: 233MHz RAM: 64MB HARD DRIVE SPACE: 1536MB For Windows XP Professional, having only 64MBs of RAM may limit performance and some features. Windows 95 can be installed in well under 20MB, as explained in David Farquhar's excellent "Optimizing Windows for Games, Graphics and Multimedia": http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache:Wqd3Z3F7RWsC:thesiliconunderground.edit thispage.com/stories/storyReader%24127 (Site is not loading as of 2002/10/29 08:46 GMT, therefore Google cache link has been provided) See also Sean Liming's "Minimizing the Windows 95 Footprint for Embedded Systems Applications": http://24.237.160.4/files/omnibook/Minimize95/Min95.txt +++++ To Subscribe or Unsubscribe: Send a blank email to tinyapps-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with either 'subscribe' or 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. You can also use the web interface, which has additional options: http://tinyapps.org/ezine.html +++Disclaimer: You are 100% responsible +++for your own actions. Visiting a link, +++downloading a program, in short, *living*, +++is done entirely at your own risk (and joy).