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I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of

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Post by FergusArgyll »

jolmg wrote: post #106
FergusArgyll wrote: post #105

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Reposting from iluvcommunism who's shadowbanned https://os.ryo.lu/ Quite cool.

One can also click on their timestamp then click "vouch".

I did, I think it needs more than one vouch. Was still dead after I vouched anyway...

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Post by FarmerPotato »

bilegeek wrote: post #63
eichin wrote: post #16

I hadn't realized Domain/OS emulation was viable these days. It's one of the few systems that has actually "lost" features - the terminal-window-like thing (called pads, I think?) when in line mode had a dividing line at the bottom where your unconsumed typeahead was visible and you could continue to edit it until it got read - not just one line, the entire unconsumed input. (Not that it's a particularly desirable fe…

Unfortunately, pre-Domain/OS AEGIS is basically lost. One person popped up with talk of imaging their 9.6 floppies, but I haven't seen anything since then. [1] https://www.facebook.com/groups/retrocomputers/posts/7062462...

I just received from a retired engineer, a binder of 8” floppies that says Jan 1984, AEGIS 6.0 / Mentor 3.0, Full Backup, WBAK. The owner got them from a dumpster 40 years ago, but suspects someone just reused the binder to store blank floppies. Anyhow I’m working on it.

I’ve also found source for an AEGIS menu system (mouse, hotkeys) written in Forth.

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Post by eduo »

Nice. Reminds me of Frame of Preference, with embedded emulators for all major MacOS, placed on top of images of the machines they ran on, with effects to simulate the grain and color of those machines, and with scripted "goals" and easter eggs.

https://aresluna.org/frame-of-preference/

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Post by c6comp »

dmitrygr wrote: post #103
dmitrygr wrote: post #69

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If my download ever finishes i'll spin up a torrent. So far on retry/resume #12, 97.3/120GB done (i am live updating this comment as long as i can)

#16, 115/120GB and it is not resuming ... 2026-05-19 16:23:03 ERROR 522: . #23, 118.5/120GB and going again

in for a torrent/magnet link as well

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Post by dansquizsoft »

Oh man, this is absolutely amazing. I’ve built a much smaller project with 13 vintage OSes running in the browser, and even at this scale the amount of fiddly work involved was stupidly high. Doing this for 1700+ systems is crazy! Nice work.

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Post by edoceo »

andreww591 wrote: post #6
a1o wrote: post #2

Do you have that Windows 3.1 version that came with the Compaq that had the DE that was like a paper folder instead of an empty desktop, and that you could put the icons in the different tabs of the paper folder?

I don't think I've heard of an alternate shell/launcher like that before. Do you remember what it was called?

Windows still (well, Win2000) lets you build a custom shell, just replace explorer.exe (and a bunch of other work).

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dmitrygr wrote: post #103
dmitrygr wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If my download ever finishes i'll spin up a torrent. So far on retry/resume #12, 97.3/120GB done (i am live updating this comment as long as i can)

#16, 115/120GB and it is not resuming ... 2026-05-19 16:23:03 ERROR 522: . #23, 118.5/120GB and going again

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