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I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of
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#162What I find interesting about projects like this is how much of the OS "feel" doesn't survive emulation. The visual layer comes through fine, but the things that actually defined the experience — keyboard click latency, the specific mouse acceleration curves of period hardware, the way a CRT scanline gave System 7 fonts a totally different texture than a sharp LCD does, the audible click-thunk of Atari ST or early Ma…
I tend to associate the Amiga with razor-sharp interlaced displays, so seeing 640x400 noninterlaced in an emulator leaves something missing. The Amiga also had an unusually smooth mouse response due to its interrupt prioritization and use of hardware sprites for the mouse cursor. I had never seen a mouse move as buttery-smooth as it did on the Amiga. Again, this is not captured via emulation; not even my MiSTer seems to get it right.
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#163Reminds me of the alt.sysadmin.recovery canonical list of operating systems that suck. https://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/humor/Unix/os-suck.html
Ah yes, Scary Devil Monastery (which also sounds like it'd make a pretty sweet Doom map).
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#164I couldn't find Emacs?
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#165This triggered a rabbit hole search that had me rediscover Packard Bell Navigator[1]. The nostalgia and joy this page brings me is hard to describe. I hope everyone remembers their formative tech journey so fondly. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packard_Bell_Navigator
> Packard Bell Navigator is an alternative shell for the Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 operating systems
Huh. I thought the term "shell" generally referred to command line interfaces to the OS and that Unity's way of describing itself as a graphical shell was some "new" (2011) generalization of the term, but I guess there is at least this precedent for using the word like that.
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#167An amazing, herculean effort! thumbs up to Andrew This preservation of old OS is important. Spread the word, this needs to reach anyone who's interested in it.
Since there is a multitlude of whatabout...
Oberon?
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#168I couldn't find Emacs?
Although Emacs commonly refers to an editor, It was always so very much more: It is a compiler, an editor, a pain-in-the-arse, one of the most brilliant uses of the blurring of the layers of App/os/hardware. Its a lisp editor, a lisp development environment, a lisp machine, an OS, Its a database, a word processor, a calculator... the only things in computer science that It is not is a spread sheet, and a paint program, but do not say that too loud or someone will write a macro for it that does both of these things, in some weird way, you will have visions of Phillip K. Dick.
Oh, and did I say it was also a threaded-mail reader? A threaded-news reader?
Oh, and lastly, Emacs is a torture device.
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#169Is there a proper full list without needing to download the very big ZIP archive file? I don't know if it includes "every operating system I can think of". I can think of some things: TempleOS, BTRON (there might be more than one implementation; I know of an (apparently) abandoned FOSS implementation), Serenity OS, and some others that I do not remember what they are called. Also, what might be useful for preservatio…
The abstract list, which is pretty complete is here:
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#170Is there a way to see a list of the operating systems included without having to download and run the tool?
https://ia601001.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/18...'
You are basically expanding the zip file, and you can pick and choose.