Amazing!
Windows98 Running in the Browser
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Re: Windows98 Running in the Browser
#12Impressive! But loading Google for kicks, in IE, sort of killed it. Definitely can feel the nostalgia. I remember the first time I decided to leave Windows 95 run overnight, the next morning, moving the mouse would send the harddrive playhead flying like crazy... You know the old "SHRrrrrt Shrrrt..." It had such a memory leak overnight that moving the mouse was causing the swap to kick in non-stop!
Interesting. In 1997 I had a thinkpad running Windows 95 and I went weeks between reboots. It was rock solid.
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#13Is it public domain now?
No, but it is no longer supported by Microsoft so it is abandonware. It is still closed source and piracy to copy without permission but Microsoft does not care about it because it is too old to sue over.
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#14omg finally a reasonable minesweeper emulator
:) Check the javascript replica
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#15Wow, what a flashback! This was the OS I actually grew up with. I remember being 3 or 4 years old and playing Carnivores 2 on my Dad's Windows 98 PC. Even the slowness and unresponsiveness is there, just like I remember! Yeah...this was the golden age. So much hope and so much optimism for what could be in regards to technology and what it would allow for the general population. I still think we're not there, but we can get there still, perhaps.
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#16I immediately played Freecell, which I spent way too many hours playing as a kid.
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#17Is it public domain now?
No, but it is no longer supported by Microsoft so it is abandonware. It is still closed source and piracy to copy without permission but Microsoft does not care about it because it is too old to sue over.
They've been known to send C&Ds to various sites that host old versions like this.
"no longer supported" is a flimsy argument for abandonware anyway. by that reasoning, Windows 7 is abandonware and it still runs basically every Windows program ever.
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#18Awww, "My Briefcase"! I had totally forgotten that was a thing :) What a nice little nostalgia trip.
Omigosh, I really miss the heck out of when Windows had charm, and personality like this.
Stuff like Hover! - getting that Weezer music video with the Happy Days set on the Win 95 media edition or whatever...such cool little things that displayed a sense of ‘fun’ about very business-centric software.
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#19What interests me is the core interactions with Windows systems remain mostly the same, unchanged, in the span of last 20 years!
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, but it is no longer supported by Microsoft so it is abandonware. It is still closed source and piracy to copy without permission but Microsoft does not care about it because it is too old to sue over.
They've been known to send C&Ds to various sites that host old versions like this. "no longer supported" is a flimsy argument for abandonware anyway. by that reasoning, Windows 7 is abandonware and it still runs basically every Windows program ever.
I think that kind of boils down to the ‘spirit of the law’ kinda thing.
Windows 98, conversely; cannot run modern software, and the majority of software in use for the last decade - it is only going to be installed as an experiment by geeks like us, for the most part.