It seems it was made emulating an ancient processor using current processors and in fact creating a massively overclocked virtual processor + virtual disks. Very nice.
Speedrunning Windows 95
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Re: Speedrunning Windows 95
#22Anecdote: back in the early 2000s, I regularly installed Windows XP on the machines of school friends and family members and got pretty fast at it. After a few months, I realized that I had memorized the original Windows XP "default" CD key (the one starting with FCKGW...) by accident. I haven't done an installation of XP in 15 years, yet you could wake me up in the middle of the night and I could tell you this damn…
There was a thread a few days ago where someone mentioned their password was the key to "a very popular software" and someone in the replies guessed it:
Re: Speedrunning Windows 95
#23Someone had a thread on Twitter trying to crash it ASAP and the key was the run dialogue box with "con\con" ... This even crashes the JavaScript Windows 95 emulators.
In case anyone was wondering (as I was):
> While any of these special filenames would have worked, the most common one used to crash old Windows machines was con, a special filename that represents the physical console: the keyboard (for input) and the screen (for output). Windows correctly handled simple attempts to access the con device, but a filename included two references to the special device—for example, c:\con\con—then Windows would crash. If that file was referenced from a webpage, for example, by trying to load an image from file:///c:/con/con then the machine would crash whenever the malicious page was accessed.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/05/in-a-...
Re: Speedrunning Windows 95
#24this is a waste of time, i just burned a custom cd with an autorun.inf and every morning before school, after installing linux the previous day, i would pop it in so my mom could use AOL.
still, 24 years after windows 95, i gotta say this is .. hilarious. ;d
Re: Speedrunning Windows 95
#25I remember that it used to take an hour or 2.. including walking away and coming back
Re: Speedrunning Windows 95
#26Anecdote: back in the early 2000s, I regularly installed Windows XP on the machines of school friends and family members and got pretty fast at it. After a few months, I realized that I had memorized the original Windows XP "default" CD key (the one starting with FCKGW...) by accident. I haven't done an installation of XP in 15 years, yet you could wake me up in the middle of the night and I could tell you this damn…
FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-2B7Q8-8TG6W. I am not sure if its correct.
edit: yes it is. Checked the link in other thread.
Re: Speedrunning Windows 95
#27Anecdote: back in the early 2000s, I regularly installed Windows XP on the machines of school friends and family members and got pretty fast at it. After a few months, I realized that I had memorized the original Windows XP "default" CD key (the one starting with FCKGW...) by accident. I haven't done an installation of XP in 15 years, yet you could wake me up in the middle of the night and I could tell you this damn…
There was a thread a few days ago where someone mentioned their password was the key to "a very popular software" and someone in the replies guessed it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19298120
Hah, I had no idea that others have this problem too. There must be something to this sequence that makes it very easy to memorize.
Re: Speedrunning Windows 95
#28Anecdote: back in the early 2000s, I regularly installed Windows XP on the machines of school friends and family members and got pretty fast at it. After a few months, I realized that I had memorized the original Windows XP "default" CD key (the one starting with FCKGW...) by accident. I haven't done an installation of XP in 15 years, yet you could wake me up in the middle of the night and I could tell you this damn…
FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-2B7Q8-8TG6W. I am not sure if its correct. edit: yes it is. Checked the link in other thread.
The last two quintuples are switched, otherwise it is correct. The "RKT-8TG6W" is my favorite part, because it makes for a nice rhyme (at least in German, where "W" is a single syllable"):
RKT
8T
G6W
Re: Speedrunning Windows 95
#29Can you speedrun something that is not locked to specific hardware like a console game would be? Feels like hardware is most of the "speed"
Most games run a time-limited simulation, so better hardware will only reduce lag and load times, as well as let you dedicate more computing power toward graphics calculations. An in-game timer can be made to ignore all of these.
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#30Meanwhile, I can't manage to install 95 in a VirtualBox install :/