Awww, "My Briefcase"! I had totally forgotten that was a thing :) What a nice little nostalgia trip.
As an 8 year old child, I never understood what briefcases were but that didn't prevent me from having tons of them.
Windows98 Running in the Browser
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Re: Windows98 Running in the Browser
#22What interests me is the core interactions with Windows systems remain mostly the same, unchanged, in the span of last 20 years!
Isn't the same true for osx and linux?
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#23Plugging Fabrice Bellard's https://bellard.org/jslinux/ where you can run linux and windows on a hand crafted js x86 emulator.
Of course it was Bellard. Of course.
Re: Windows98 Running in the Browser
#24What interests me is the core interactions with Windows systems remain mostly the same, unchanged, in the span of last 20 years!
if you forget Windows 8 :)
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#25Impressive! 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.
Windows 95/98 stability really depended on the quality of your hardware, drivers, and software. If things intracted poorly, it was easy to get a system that needed a reboot every few hours to stay responsive.
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#26First think I had to do was see if Active Desktop worked... And yes it does. "View My Active Desktop as a web page", I guess Windows 98 was just ahead of its time.
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#27sheep.exe <3
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Arguably anything using Windows 98 is satire. :-)
Re: Windows98 Running in the Browser
#29This is brilliant. Even the goold old Windows --> Run ... -> CON/CON bug seems to work.
Re: Windows98 Running in the Browser
#30Ping localhost works as well. Now to see if you can kill the machine by causing a ICMP packet buffer overflow.