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Catch of the Day: Greetings from the OS/2 Warp Zone! 🌀💾
Hey Retro Fans!
Today, we're shining our spotlight on a very special operating system in our logs. Someone actually visited the Frog pond using OS/2!
With 4 clicks, Mozilla Firefox (Version 45.0) running on an OS/2 system showed up in our stats.
For those who weren't around in the 90s: OS/2 was IBM's legendary answer to Windows. Back then, it was often praised as "a better DOS than DOS and a better Windows than Windows." The OS/2 Warp version, in particular, brought true, rock-solid multitasking to PCs long before Microsoft pushed it into the mainstream with Windows 95.
Although OS/2 ultimately lost the commercial battle for the desktop, it still retains an incredibly loyal and brilliant hardcore community today (partly through modern successors like ArcaOS) who even compile newer Firefox ports for the system. We think it's absolutely fantastic that this technical masterpiece is still being used today to browse the Frog pond!
May your systems never crash!
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Catch of the Day - Good Friday Edition: Of Ataris and Crazy Emulators! 🕹️🦇
Hey Retro Fans!
You just don't stop amazing us! Our log files from the past 24 hours read like the script for a documentary on crazy hardware tinkering.
The absolute highlights of the day:
🦇 Atari ST is online: We had visits from HighWire – the custom-built browser for Atari's classic TOS (Tramiel Operating System). It’s an incredible feeling to serve our text content to a 16-bit system from the late 80s!
🎮 Netscape 4.0 on a PSP?! Yes, you read that right. Someone actually got the Netscape Navigator from 1997 running on a PlayStation Portable (with a massive 653 clicks!). This is most likely running via a homebrew Linux port or a DOSBox emulation on the handheld. Absolute madness!
👔 The Business Dinos live: We also recorded visits from old BlackBerry 10 devices and a genuine IBM OS/2 Warp system!
Whether you’re dragging your old Ataris out of the basement or testing obscure emulators on consoles – the Frog pond is open for you. Keep it up!
Your FrogFind Team 🐸
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FrogFind's "Catch of the Day": A Greeting from IBM! (OS/2 Warp) 🚀🖥️
Hey Retro Fans and have a great weekend!
Today's Catch of the Day takes us right back to the mid-90s, straight onto the battlefield of desktop operating systems. Around 1:20 PM, we recorded this beautiful entry:
🏆 Netscape Navigator 4.61 on IBM OS/2
Why is this so cool?
Long before Linux on the desktop was a thing, there was a giant competitor to Microsoft's Windows 95: OS/2 Warp by IBM. It was incredibly stable, true 32-bit, offered outstanding multitasking, and was deeply loved by power users, banks, and network specialists.
Unfortunately, Microsoft ultimately won the marketing war, but OS/2 still has a small, incredibly loyal fanbase today (and even lives on in modern forks like ArcaOS!). The fact that someone booted up their old IBM machine (or a virtual machine) this afternoon to surf FrogFind using the classic Netscape 4 is pure retro dedication.
OS/2 lives! And on FrogFind, it loads faster than ever. 😉
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