First thing i did was delete the trashcan. Oops.
Windows 96
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Re: Windows 96
#232Re: Windows 96
#233Earlier quoted context omitted.
To day I still factory reset my PC and my phone about once a year, just to keep them fresh. I have no idea if it's still helpful with modern a OS.
Why not just reboot the read-only VM? ;-) Fresh install on every boot!
many things like low level gaming api wouldn't work, and FYI we talk about ages when virtualization was at its infancy at best (Windows 95 era there was none that I am aware of for consumer PCs, XP era still super basic, quirky and resource hungry)
Re: Windows 96
#234Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is why I would create a c:\wininst folder and dump the CD worth of files. When I needed to do an OS reinstall, I'd boot to DOS mode, cd \wininst, and do the install from hard drive to hard drive. Much MUCH faster and much MUCH less painful.
Protip: Windows 95 (and 98) installs much faster hdd-to-hdd if you start smartdrv.exe in your config.sys/autoexec.bat even with minimal write cache.
Smartdrv.exe was a vital utility on DOS systems.
You had to unload it to play some games, though, otherwise they wouldn't fit into memory (DOOM on 4 MB systems, Duke Nukem on 8 MB systems).
God, I am old.
Re: Windows 96
#235There is also Windows 93: https://www.windows93.net/
omg, it has a TRACKER! (does anyone else remember .mod files? Predates mp3's?) Fire up "Bananamp"
Go crazy: https://milkytracker.org
Re: Windows 96
#236This is snappier running in my browser than my actual OS shell. Ahh, I miss the simpler days of computing.
It is way snappier than it was on any hardware back then, windows movements animate much better etc. Those were the times without any GPU help, running it all on some anemic 486 with maybe 16 MB of RAM and super slow and noisy HDDs which swapped constantly.
Re: Windows 96
#237Pretty. :) Gives me PTSD-like flashbacks to the time when I was tasked with installing Windows 95 on 50+ computers on the local school. For the young(er), Windows was on 14-ish 3.5" floppy disks, and I had to do some heavy calculation and logistics copying those discs while installing the OS to make my effort as efficient as possible. IIRC, I managed to keep the installing cyclus going on 28 computers at a time, and…
If you have some spare time, you can re-feel the pain in real time, JFYI, the "full" set was 21, 22 or 29 floppies, though:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IBsTvWItY0
There is also Windows 98 install in real time from 39 disks:
Re: Windows 96
#238Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was Elon Musk lol. Whats up airstrike
LOL I was admin/SYSTEM and all the silly names. What's up!
oh you were admin too lol. What's up admin
I'm thinking it's a real shame that the internet isn't like that anymore. I've kind of been wanting to build my own forum or something. Maybe bring some of that back
Re: Windows 96
#239In order to view files and folders on Windows it should be dir isn't it? So why is it showing files when you type ls and not dir, and why dir command is not found?
Yes I went down the same rabbit hole. `dir` is not found, whereas POSIX commands such as `ls`, `cd` and `cat` are available.
Re: Windows 96
#240There is also Windows 93: https://www.windows93.net/
omg, it has a TRACKER! (does anyone else remember .mod files? Predates mp3's?) Fire up "Bananamp"
This is also still alive: https://openmpt.org/
What I liked most about .mod files is that you could actually open them directly in the editors and see how they were made, quite fun to do that with old games that still used this format (Death Rally, DX-ball 2, Unreal (Tournament)).