I have bought him many programs my projects over the years.
I last contacted him two days after his death to buy a large hard drives patch.
At the same time, I was asking for advice a few problems my new win 98SE installation, I wondered why he was not responding and his website was down as well.
I then already sense that something bad was happened. I got confirmation when I read https://kraussfuneralhome.com/tribute/details/858/Rudolph-Loew/obituary.html that he is dead.
He was genius and a big loss DOS/ Win9X community.
R.I.P Rudolph.