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otacon239So many games of Spider Solitaire
I still use Winrar.
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sp3ctr4lBecause it really whips the llamaâs ass!
That would be Winamp⊠~unless I missed the joke?~
That is the joke:
If youâre still using WinRAR, youâre probably/possibly also still using Winamp, out of either a faux hipster-like desire to be retro and esoteric, or are just very stubborn and never changed your software setup.
7zip is better.
Unironically, 7zip is the best. Itâs widely available, open source, and⊠Multithreaded.
Really helps when I need to compress a few hundred gigs of experimental data at the 24 core workstation.
I am Reversi Hearts Freecell Solitaire Minesweeper 3d pinball for windows old.
I am âwrite your own shit in GWBASICâ old.
How dare you leave out SkiFree!
That damn yeti was scary af. Every game was pure anxiety.
Did you know you can press âfâ to go faster and outrun the Yeti?
WELL NOW I DO
^thanks
OhStopYellingAtMeI remember dialing into bulletin board services to leave chat comments and share small files that would take hours to download.
Shit, Iâm oldâŠ
God, same. Iâm actually using that currently on my laptop.
Itâs on my old netbook, it will never leave.
That thing is nearing 20 now I think!
If you stare at it long enough the clouds start to move a little
You guys gave guis?
Yes, they help make my terminal prettier.
Whatâs terminal? My os is just a command prompt
cm0002âitâs now safe to turn off your computerâ
Thatâs how old I am
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Fuck
I feel you man. Very nostalgic!
I had to type â/winâ to boot up Windows
Into what did you type that? Wouldnât something already have to have booted first in order to type it?
MS-DOS
Dos, windows was just a normal dos program you had to start like anything else until windows 95
And when Win95 booted, you exited into the DOS prompt, the true gaming environment at the time.
This PC booted up in DOS
I assume MS-DOS.
Oh gawd, there are people that donât know DOS.
FACKâŠ
I know about DOS if that helps? Iâm not too far off from having used it though, I bet. Iâm 38.
caseyweedermanYeah you have no excuse
Is that Windows 95?
95/98 and ME/XP to a far lesser extent but it was 98 for me lol
Any Windows machine that does not support ACPI or has it disabled. IIRC Windows has required ACPI since Vista.
And the power switch was like KA-JUNK when you pushed it, because it was a big olâ switch that actually physically connected and disconnected the power.
âItâs now safe to turn off your computerâ went away after we moved to software power control, where the operating system could signal the power supply to turn off.
I knew far, far too many people in HS that just hit the power button without actually shutting it down.
CileTheSaneI had my computer plugged into a power bar and weâd turn off the power bar to turn off the computer so that we wouldnât wear out the switch on the computer.
People actually thought youâd have a computer long enough to wear out its power switch.
The one I remember best was having to use the DOS âparkâ command before you shut down the PC. I guess I am that old.
BjörnHuh, never ever seen that. We always used the rule "you can shutdown the computer when you can see the C:".
What does park do? Put the HDD arm into a parked position? Never needed that for ours, but we also had a blazingly fast 486 with a massive 250 MB hdd.
Yeah, old drives didnât autopark like the IDE drive in your spiffy 486. I had an XT growing up, and dad was militant about having us remember to park the drive when we were done with it. I think by the end of the 80s, all drives were IDE and were autoparking, so the command was deprecated.
I never had to do that, because our computer didnât have a hard drive. We booted DOS right from the floppy.
Damn, I had a Tandy 1000HX (very much not a 486) and never had to do that.
Cool, Iâve wanted an OS ROM chip since the early nineties, and often wondered why nobody seemed to be doing it. Guess they were all along!
You technically didnât have to park the old MFM and RLL drives, but if you didnât, then you just had the drive heads resting on the platters after you shut them down. Then if you bumped or moved the PC at that time, it could scratch the disk like a record. If you never tried to move it, there probably wasnât much risk.
From the sound of it, the HDD in your Tandy probably would have been an MFM or RLL drive, and depending on the drive model, it either autoparked the drive heads or didnât. As a PC clone running MS-DOS, the command was probably supported, but maybe not needed. Or you may have just been the equivalent of one of those rebels who held down the power button every time they wanted to shut down the PC and always got away with it!
RememberTheApollo_Yup. Thankfully that âfeatureâ went away real quick and it became automatic.
Iâm right there with ya. Donât forget to make sure you set the interleaving correctly on your Winchester drive!
The ole AT power supply standard. Nice.
I had a friend who edited the .jpeg or whatever in the shutdown sequence to say âit is NOT safe to shut off your computerâ and waited for his family to freak out.
I was going to say!
The OP was using the fancy new iconsâŠ
Entertainment packs 1-4. Chips Challenge, SkiFree, Rodentâs Revenge
Oh man, I found chipâs challenge again a few years back (it took forever because I couldnât remember the name) but I totally forgot about rodentâs revenge!
You can install and run v3.1 in DosBox. In case anyone wanted to keep using it.
1: You a veteran?
2: Yes. No. I donât wanna talk about it.
Camera zooms in on 2, fades to montage:
MiG 21 thundering overhead at tree top levels, while blasting âHushâ, which is being comically raised in pitch to squeaking chipmunk levels as it approaches, and then instantly downshifts by two octaves into quaalude voice after it passes overhead.
squad is slowly advancing through Hue with no resistance thus far⊠and then suddenly, from 3 different directions, VC on mopeds, blasting âSurfin Birdâ and headbanging maniacally, rapidly approach the unit⊠2 are shot, but one makes it through, moped detonates with the force of 4 bundles of TNT
⊠rocket pod armed mi8s and hueys pieroutting around each other in the sky, throwing unguided rockets everywhere, taking out ground bound friend and foe alike, both ultimately running out if ammo and then crashing into the ground sideways and upside downâŠ
Camera pops back to 2, slowly zooms out.
2: ⊠I donât wanna talk about it.
I need someone do this with XP
XP was my last windows before I switched to Linux btw
Sounds like a very sane choice!