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Re: Prank Windows XP simulator

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Post by mixmastamyk » Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 7:53 PM UTC

dm319 wrote: post #14

MarkusWandel wrote: post #9

This is great! Even though I skipped the whole Windows XP era by being primarily a Linux user all that time, and know it's all fake, the slight panic at what happens when you try to launch a program is real.

Darn I wish I'd come across Linux before. I was starting university and my Amiga A1200 was just too incompatible with everything. I spent ages weighing up a powerbook with the shiny new OSX or a Thinkpad T40 with XP. In the end I was most impressed with the reliability of the ThinkPad, but those years spent fighting XP when I could have been using Linux - I regret! When I discovered Ubuntu 9.04, I felt like my love o…

Linux and OSX weren't that great in the early years.

And XP was one of the best Windows, minus a few glaring holes. Some of which could be patched over with third-party apps and some completely missing, like a modern terminal.

Bottom line, XP was about the best there was just after the turn of the century, assuming you were safe behind a NAT and smart enough to use the new Firefox rather than IE in the coming years.

Re: Prank Windows XP simulator

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Post by aruggirello » Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 8:10 PM UTC

dm319 wrote: post #14

MarkusWandel wrote: post #9

This is great! Even though I skipped the whole Windows XP era by being primarily a Linux user all that time, and know it's all fake, the slight panic at what happens when you try to launch a program is real.

Darn I wish I'd come across Linux before. I was starting university and my Amiga A1200 was just too incompatible with everything. I spent ages weighing up a powerbook with the shiny new OSX or a Thinkpad T40 with XP. In the end I was most impressed with the reliability of the ThinkPad, but those years spent fighting XP when I could have been using Linux - I regret! When I discovered Ubuntu 9.04, I felt like my love o…

Old Amiga user here - There's something about GNU/Linux that felt instantly familiar for me - it instantly clicked. I too lost too many years on Windows...

BTW as an Amiga fan, let me take you back to Kickstart 1.3 and a few demos:

http://www.chiptune.com/

Re: Prank Windows XP simulator

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Post by pomian » Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 8:13 PM UTC

tyingq wrote: post #24

I get a Dell BIOS after the BSOD, and I'm running a Dell. Coincidence, or does it detect the vendor?

also dell bios screen, on android!

Re: Prank Windows XP simulator

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Post by dmitrygr » Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 8:15 PM UTC

Cute, but it it failed on click #2. "Show Desktop" indeed miminizes all windows. But clicking it again should restore them to where they were when "Show Desktop" was last clicked. It instead does nothing.

Re: Prank Windows XP simulator

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Post by HenryBemis » Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 8:19 PM UTC

The "Hacker" mode needs update.. it has BTC9 and writes it's approximately $44k ;)

That's old news! :)

Re: Prank Windows XP simulator

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Post by StavrosK » Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 8:29 PM UTC

janlukacs wrote: post #20

I panicked even at the fake BSOD... so many memories. Winamp still looks good.

I remember in the era of Windows XP, I had downloaded a BSOD screensaver. Unfortunately, it never worked, as the few times I tried to preview it, it kept crashing the system.

...I realized why at around the fourth try.

Re: Prank Windows XP simulator

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Post by cadr » Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 8:54 PM UTC

002445 wrote: post #13

Anyone else got stuck playing tetris forgetting how you got there?

I kind of wished the tetris game messed with you. Like have some crazy shape or have the score go all over the place. Somehow I think that would get more people that the xp theme itself.

Re: Prank Windows XP simulator

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Post by antisol » Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 8:55 PM UTC

Not quite as good as Windows RG ;)

Re: Prank Windows XP simulator

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Post by second--shift » Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 9:08 PM UTC

this is cute but modern web sites won't work in the embedded Internet Explorer - I kept getting an error "Firefox won't display this page in an embedded page - click here to open in new tab"

Re: Prank Windows XP simulator

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Post by dm319 » Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 9:14 PM UTC

aruggirello wrote: post #42

dm319 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Darn I wish I'd come across Linux before. I was starting university and my Amiga A1200 was just too incompatible with everything. I spent ages weighing up a powerbook with the shiny new OSX or a Thinkpad T40 with XP. In the end I was most impressed with the reliability of the ThinkPad, but those years spent fighting XP when I could have been using Linux - I regret! When I discovered Ubuntu 9.04, I felt like my love o…

Old Amiga user here - There's something about GNU/Linux that felt instantly familiar for me - it instantly clicked. I too lost too many years on Windows... BTW as an Amiga fan, let me take you back to Kickstart 1.3 and a few demos: http://www.chiptune.com/

When I discovered Linux, I bought a few Linux magazines - and realised that Linux Format (a monthly in the UK) seemed to carry over much of the same staff from Amiga Format. I had a weird sense of losing the party for a while and somehow chancing upon it again. That website is great, and weirdly the Amiga has come up a couple of times this week. One was marcan mentioning an X1000 driver which he's using for his asahilinux project, and another was re-discovering some Amiga games tunes that the author has commented on 25 years later on YouTube.