This thing is amazing! I barely used my phone at all in the morning and all through the afternoon as I went about my business. I got sucked in for the evening onwards, but baby steps.
… I’ll need to download more music, and get a bigger SD card. I’ve already played and replayed every single one of them I had loaded onto my Echo Mini these past 2 days.
Yeah…you need a Win XP machine or vm. Then find the software suite online (Internet Archive mainly)
OneCoreAPI is super helpful for using old apps on new windows and vice versa. Dramatically improves compatibility with ReactOS as well.
It is a project to unify the NT ecosystem.
Source: https://github.com/shorthorn-project/One-Core-API-Binaries-Canary
Website: http://shorthornproject.com/onecoreapi.html does not support HTTPS, connection not secure to this site
That’s what I’ve been able to find so far, too. I tried a few compatibility layers, but the farthest that got me was to allow the OS to “see” which device was connected, without being able to communicate with it.
I may spin up winXP on my old IBM ThinkPad R21 and make, essentially, a single purpose machine lol
Whatever you do don’t put it on the network! I sneakernetted everything to my XP machine.
Oh hell no! That thing won’t even know my flat has a network lol!! That is a really good point, though.