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Re: Speedrunning Windows 95

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Post by myrandomcomment »

lanstin wrote: post #40

Ok we need speedrun install Gentoo 2004. Speedrun install Slackware Linux 1.0 from floppies. Speedrun install perl 5 from Configure. Speedrun update all the GNU autotools and gcc from a non-root user with a non standard prefix.

As someone using Gentoo in 2004 (what was I thinking?) I would love to see how long this takes in a VM back by a CPU from 2019 and tons of RAM. I have some memory in the back of my head of compiling Gentoo on a Sun Sparc 20 (4xCPU ... I think) with max ram (32 or 128MB?!?) - because I owned one and could (it was old HW in 2004). It took a few days from stage 1. Today if I need to compile anything I ssh to a builder server with 48 cores and 256gb of RAM as the i7 laptop is to slow. Ah, memories.

Re: Speedrunning Windows 95

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Post by hackerbrother »

justizin wrote: post #24

this 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

you installed linux every night and installed windows every morning?

Re: Speedrunning Windows 95

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Post by jimmaswell »

andrelaszlo wrote: post #77
lqet wrote: post #19

Anecdote: 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…

I just had a similar thing happening a year or two ago. My mom sent me some old backup CDs that she found while cleaning out her basement. I was very happy to find my first attempt at making a game with graphics on one of the discs. The game was written in Visual Basic so I downloaded a copy of the IDE and luckily the installer ran under Wine. When I got to the license screen, some forgotten but apparently not decaye…

Reminds me of Game & Watch.

Re: Speedrunning Windows 95

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Post by andrelaszlo »

jimmaswell wrote: post #83
andrelaszlo wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just had a similar thing happening a year or two ago. My mom sent me some old backup CDs that she found while cleaning out her basement. I was very happy to find my first attempt at making a game with graphics on one of the discs. The game was written in Visual Basic so I downloaded a copy of the IDE and luckily the installer ran under Wine. When I got to the license screen, some forgotten but apparently not decaye…

Reminds me of Game & Watch.

Exactly, I had one - still have it actually, it's working too :)

Re: Speedrunning Windows 95

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Post by robocat »

sp332 wrote: post #20

There's another speedrun category: time to bluescreen https://mobile.twitter.com/Foone/status/1103384684812255233

Bought a Dell XPS. After opening the box and starting it, Windows 10 crashed on the second click in the install process!

Re: Speedrunning Windows 95

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Post by zaroth »

ComputerGuru wrote: post #33

I had an assembly line for setting up Windows 95 with the 21 floppy disks (and later Windows 98 with 38) at a school lab. Start one, when it asks for disk 2 move on to the next PC, and the next thing you know, you have a clean install on every PC in the "lab."

If you have 21 disks and 21 machines, how much slower is this install method than if you had 21^2 disks for 21 machines?

Assuming all disks read in equal time and it takes no time to move the disks.

Re: Speedrunning Windows 95

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Post by ayakura »

jimmies wrote: post #55
781 wrote: post #34

OT: can someone explain this anime/waifu thing to me, in particular why does someone record a video like this one with careful window placement so that we can see the anime? I feel like I'm missing something.

Just a playful way to mess with people. At work, I see a guy that wears a D-Va shirt every other day. He is a big guy, and the whole D-Va thing is printed full-screen on his shirt. It makes quite a funny sight. 4chan people are notorious for pulling that kind of shit. I wouldn't be surprised if the person that makes that video is from /g/. If you don't find it funny, then you don't find it funny, like how you don't g…

> He is a big guy

For you

Re: Speedrunning Windows 95

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Post by thegeekpirate »

Magi604 wrote: post #49
lqet wrote: post #19

Anecdote: 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…

This was me, but with the OG Starcraft: Brood War CD Key. I think I still remember the key, but I'm not sure and I don't have the CD to verify.

Brood War didn't come with a CD-key, only the original StarCraft disc did =)

Re: Speedrunning Windows 95

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Post by _mrmnmly »

lqet wrote: post #19

Anecdote: 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…

My friend had similar 'super power's but.. with Diablo 2 CD key ;)

Re: Speedrunning Windows 95

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Post by bmn__ »

Qub3d wrote: post #66
lqet wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 :)

American checking in on the pronunciation: "Arr kay tay, acht tay, gay zex vey"?

You're way off. Only monophthongs.

/ɛʁ kaː tʰeː axt tʰeː geː zɛks veː/

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