πŸ”» aetios πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί
kids these days will never get to experience the expectant excitement of this screen ever in their life. not the tense sound as it reads your disk or the clicky sounds of your harddrive as the game is installed, or the celebratory drive opening as you finish... soulless downloads is all we have left. pour one out for....
May 6, 2023 at 11:09pmWeb
Show threadpalmtop tigerMay 6, 2023
@[email protected]
Show threadπŸ”» aetios πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΊMay 6, 2023
@mia FUCKYEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh

I remember realising as a kid that as soon as the individual file bar stopped going fast the TOTAL PROGRESS bar started going because that meant a large cab was being decompressed
Show threadPolychrome May 17, 2023
@aetios @mia this was mine πŸ‘€
Show threadγ€Œγ‚»γƒ«γ€cell (Ψ³Ω„)Oct 29, 2023
@mia @aetios NoCD cracks πŸ₯Ί
Show threadpalmtop tigerOct 29, 2023
@[email protected] @[email protected]
Show threadAstryr CyberfΓ¦ May 6, 2023
@aetios i miss the wizards, where did they all go?
Show threadπŸ”» aetios πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΊMay 6, 2023
@alexandria
----------> @wizard
Show threadwloMay 7, 2023
@aetios @alexandria o/
Show threadLexyVFX, VTuber Arc???? πŸ‘€May 7, 2023
@alexandria @aetios pretty sure they all transitioned and changed their @'s
Show threadRiedlerMay 7, 2023
@alexandria @aetios I still see installShield from to time
Show threadMax LambertiniMay 8, 2023
@alexandria @aetios On windows, most indie stuff still uses them (I prefer the "unzip and click on exe" approach, but still)
Show thread Adzie May 7, 2023
@aetios oh my god I totally forgot about the disk bay opening
Show threadthe_nellyMay 7, 2023
@aetios this reminds me - people like to rag on things being clunky... but I like it that way! not everything needs to be hyperpolished and perfect! it just removes the humanity from it.
Show threadProtofox RileyMay 7, 2023
@nerm_nelly @aetios I want to hear the computer doing a think whilst it installs my rollercoaster Tycoon game
Show threadprincess pancake β€‹May 7, 2023
@[email protected] Holy shit I suddenly wanna boot up the old PC again
Show threadBrittle Anxious Nonlinear IncoMay 7, 2023
@aetios at least the solastalgia is for free now
Show threadKevin Karhan May 7, 2023

@aetios true, true...

Can we at least have the #NeoFloppy?
https://github.com/KBtechnologies/NeoFloppy

GitHub - KBtechnologies/NeoFloppy: A new storage media format using modern interfaces.

A new storage media format using modern interfaces. - KBtechnologies/NeoFloppy

GitHub
Show threadJames P.  May 8, 2023
@aetios I still see that sometimes when installing certain programs or drivers on Windows.
Show threadLisPiMay 8, 2023

@aetios Somehow I don't remember seeing this.

I didn't exactly have the money for all that many games (limiting my exposure) and lucked into second/third hand consoles for what was probably the majority of that tool's popularity.

Show threadpivotman319 🦊  May 12, 2023

@aetios this post suddenly reminded me of the oddly-specific time that seven-year old me somehow managed to create a 30 mb partition in windows xp's diskmgmt.msc snap-in... and wound up trying to install a whole-ass copy of NASCAR Heat (or was it NASCAR Racing 2? can't remember) on it via CD with this kind of installer layout

suffice to say it backfired because i had no fucking idea how disk space worked

Show threadretropromMay 17, 2023
@aetios And then you find out that they gave you recycled disks, because it says that it's registered to someone else - which is one of those reasons for making disk images right away. πŸ˜…
Show threadレむレむMay 18, 2023
@aetios it was pretty sad when innosetup ditched the classic wizard for an all emcompassing notWin2000 style look. On the NSIS side there's an addon called InstallSpider but I remember that being very unstable
Show threadok I'm here as a backup rarely still I guessJun 3, 2023
@[email protected] Ive had modern programs do this screen...
Show threadπŸ”» aetios πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΊJun 4, 2023
@theking but the combination with cd drive sounds is important p