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Re: Windows 93 (2014)

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Post by UweSchmidt »

drzaiusapelord wrote: post #75
UweSchmidt wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The email problem may be solved separately by a yet unknown solution - maybe encryption will be part of the next Iteration. "Personal assistants" that listen in on conversation, waiting for a keyword - that's a completely different dimension than "just" reading email.

You can disable the 'always listening' option in most (all?) of these products and just have a press to talk option. I leave mine on for convenience. There's no law saying you need to if you want to use these technologies.

- defaults matter and shape behaviour/expectations - disabling these options is often difficult - other people's phones listen to me as well - ...

Re: Windows 93 (2014)

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Post by toothbrush »

drzaiusapelord wrote: post #43
jgw wrote: post #32

Clever and artful, with a little nostalgia thrown in. 1993 was the year I started my undergrad and would not see a "web browser" until the following year. It's nice to re-capture a little of the spirit of what computing was like back then. Tip: Be sure to click on the virus and after what happens happens, fling the icons around. Moments of mindless fun.

Old timer here as well. The 'Virtual Girl' brings back memories of the 'personal assistant' fad from way back when. Funny how we've gone back to that now that the technology is more than a gimmick with Siri, Cortana, Alexa, and GNow. Sometimes I wonder about that peroid where so many things were possible (and tried!) but the technology and infrastructure just wasn't there to make it feasible. For all the lamenting ab…

Wow, Bonzi Buddy. The memories. Hadn't heard or thought that name in easily 10 years!

> the first LAN I worked on was 10mbps

Is that what counts as old timer these days? wags cane

Re: Windows 93 (2014)

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Post by arcatek »

softawre wrote: post #68
qwertyuiop924 wrote: post #50

It's pretty amazing how much classic software can actually run, and works pretty well. The Wolf3D clone is totally playable, and you can actually use LSDJ (one of my all-time favorite pieces of software), and it seems to be actually running the real LSDJ, too, which is pretty impressive, considering that it means that the site actually has an embedded gameboy emulator

Speaking of web emulation. It exists for a ton of platforms now (and usually requires flash). http://play.emuparadise.me/playonline/NES/Dragon_Warrior_IV_...

http://start9.io doesn't require Flash, but requires you to upload your roms. It currently support GB, GBC & GBA games.

Re: Windows 93 (2014)

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Post by zerognowl »

Worth checking out The Old School Emulation Center on Archive.org

> The Old School Emulation Center (TOSEC) is a retrocomputing initiative dedicated to the cataloging and preservation of software, firmware and resources for microcomputers, minicomputers and video game consoles

https://archive.org/details/tosec

Re: Windows 93 (2014)

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Post by cyphar »

Frogolocalypse wrote: post #19
jodrellblank wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The real question is, how long until the typical web page includes a JavaScript Linux vm running Docker to display (ads or content)?

Ha. I hadn't thought about that. Why learn web-programming eh?

> Ha. I hadn't thought about that. Why learn web-programming eh?

No, the actual program is written in Node. It's javascript all the way down my friend. :P

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