The low EMS memory warning in some DOS games. My first computer and I had no clue what I was doing, but managed to create my own boot disk that boosted it, solving the problem. In the x-wing and tie fighter games you started in Windows 95 and it exited and went to DOS to play them.
Sony Ericsson modding, you could run non-Java programs.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8dcs1ai4aM
>>106728714The OHRRPGCE, an RPG Maker competitor still updated since the 90s. Had its own scripting language, map editor and everything and could export games to DOS
>>106728714>Late 90's to 05>Owning an Hauppauge TV tuner>Decoding Canal+This one is super rare and very specific.
>>106728980I had one and wanted to do this but was too dumb to do it. I only installed an alternative camera "driver" (settings file) which just made it crash half of the time lol.
PyAIML chatbots>tfw I was trying to create my own AI gf 20 years before LLMs
>>106729055i've always wondered if the cable internet connection also carried cable tv signal.
first versions of samsung notes could transcribe handwritten math formulas offline and look them up in wolfram
>>106728875I never set up ems and just used extended memory if I remember correctly
>>106729055>Owning an Hauppauge TV tunerAch Bernd...
>>106729628Hauppauge wasn't only popular in Germany
>>106729619Here is the games list that required it. My 16mb Packard Bell 100mhz gave me issues. I think the games only required like 4mb, but this is just a DOS config issue really. https://www.vogonswiki.com/index.php/List_of_programs_that_require_EMS
>>106729879Oh yeah I guess I never really used any software that actually needed it to run
>>106728714AST's terrible Windows 3.1 shell. It was my first home computer and I'd love to experience it again but no one on planet Earth seems to have a copy of it.
>>106729606Windows can transcribe formulas since Vistajust open the Math Input Panel (works with just a mouse, too)
>>106730372>windowsSure but can your phone do it?Because current version of samsung notes app in s-pen phones can't.
>>106730399I use my phone only for calls, messaging and things that require MFA - don't give a shit about anything else on it
>>106730216>https://archive.org/search?query=ast+advantagehave you looked here?
>>106730664>>106730216i see at least 2 iso images of about 400mb there.i was asked to find some old soundfont synth plugin for some old audio workstation from 2000's and the guy found it there too.
it frightens me what will happen if archive.org ever disappears.i hope they put everything on ipfs or something
>>106728714Aston Shell replacement.
>>106730216Wow, this was my first computer too.
>>106730957>>106728714BlackBox shell.>>106729089I used to fuck around with chatbots all the time trying to get them to be as versatile as possible, but they were always retarded in the end.Can't remember the names of any of them. I was fairly young at the time.
>>106729619first there was ems.sys which over time got replaced by xms.sys (another memory pager that was a bit better in handling memory over 640K)eventually came dos4gw that was able to handle all of the memory as one single piece, including the free memory below 640kthis is all if memory serves
>>106730737ipfs is only as good as the people participating in it, serving content.don't expect normies to run it.
>>106730664>>106730719I'll give those restore disks a try.
>>106731193I just wanted my 98SE shit to look like GitS and .hack.
>>106730957You're right, I haven't heard of that one.
>>106730216>Shell inside a shellwhat the fuck WHYwindows 3.1 already was piss easy, what's the fucking purpose
povray
uncook.exe and uncook95If a web server didn't serve the MIME type for MP3, Netscape would treat MP3s as text and add newline characters to them when downloading. It didn't completely corrupt the MP3, but players would glitch on the characters. Uncook would remove them. Internet Explorer and Opera didn't have this problem. I seem to remember that free web hosts like Geocities or Tripod had this problem since they didn't serve the correct MIME type.
>>106728714For me, it was NAD.
>>106728875That hardly makes you special.If you were a DOS gamer in the 90s, you either learned how to manage memory, or you'd struggle to play most games.
>>106732107This was a machine that transitioned people from a typewriter to a computer.
Fractint on my DX66 PC from 1990
>>106732987
>>106729055reminds me of picking up a bt878 or bt848 card to use with some videocrypt pirating software that just brute force descrambled pay tv broadcasts. unfortunately the computer i had at the time had a hard time keeping upi can't remember the name of the program i used
>>106732578Generally yeah, but if you used your DOS machine purely for games and never installed a single TSR you could mostly get away with never touching memory management.
>>106728714HoverDesk>>106730957I've never heard that one
>>106732107Old people were completely baffled by Program Manager, somehow.
>>106732107At the time some computer manufacturers still had the mindset that IBM had that allowed Microsoft to dominate in the first place: software is nothing, hardware is everything. While the AST shell allowed you to exit, some from companies like Compaq tried to hide Windows entirely. Everything from the BIOS to the OS splash screen to the shutdown graphics were Compaq branded. Programs would all launch from the Compaq shell. They didn't want you to buy a Windows computer, they wanted you to buy a Compaq computer had happened to have Windows as part of the install.
>>106728714I mean, kjofol wasn't that obscure, I remember winamp hiring the dev to develop the new freeform winamp 3. kjofol looked like shit on windows 98 because it didn't support transparency effects, I think.
>>106735098I remember the fucking spinning launcher cube. We had one that did eventually let you exit to Windows. But then our parents only let us play in Launchpad, which you had to have a password to exit.
>>106728714you remind me of an app that I once knew nah but people know it
>>106732044>>106733106I was stuck on Windows 98 until 2006 so I had to find a lot of weird alternative shit. Like back when Autodesk was giving away student copies of Maya for free, I was stuck on Anim8or with its screwed-up engine (do not try to edit from perspective view). I appreciated the ability to do anything with a machine that old at the time, but it was still frustrating.
>>106732987>>106732998Funny how making fractals was one of the biggest things in the late 80s and early 90s. People set parameters before work/school and let their pc run just to see funny blobs in the evening
>>106730216My first computer was a dumpster dive find AST Advantage 611s in 2001.Was completely outdated but it let me IRC from my room rather than from the family computer.Was running windows 95 by then though, which ran like shit because it was way underpowered for it.IIRC it was a Cyrix 5x86 with 8MB of FPRAM.I wish i still had it.
>>106732474LOLthats one hell of a peculiar problem
>>106733106>KDE Crystal icons on windowsvery fancy
>>106728714I can only find this one single screenshot of the old "custom" internet browsers you used to get from your ISP. I remember using this exact browser, but it was called "Rogers Yahoo Browser" instead or something because my family had Rogers internet. It was like 20 years ago I think.
Anyone remember the "AOL explorer" browser
>>106737141people complain now with all the chrome reskin browsers around, but there used to be many more IE reskin browsers back in the day
i have no other place to outlet my old roblox information from when i was a kid playing in the late 2000'saround 2008ish right as the first growth wave hit the game, there was an option to make fancy screenshots of your builds in studio that used real time ray traced lighting, this was removed shortly after as it was buggy and most people didnt use it anyway because it took like 3-4 minutes to make a 720p imagethere used to be an optional chat filter, you had the blacklist style filter, safe chat (menus to select premade messages) and the optional "no filter"at one point there were 10 year olds throwing out raw n-bombs in roblox and that was just, part of the gamethey were going to build up a "world map" just before this time span and try to go with the semi-seamless open world idea like what secondlife did, and there were plans to make roblox into effectively a more accessible secondlife but oriented around a younger audiencetechnical limitations made it almost nonfunctional, at best you had the precursor to teleporting between places, with some odd preview that shows you the neighboring game worlds on the horizon, it was canned entirely as an idea when the popularity spike happened and they realized having individual limited size "worlds" for each user meant thered be a ton of dead space and it would limit creativity due to size constraints, but its a neat idea to think they couldve gone that direction with the gamethat era is weirdly lost to time because everyone that was playing then is my age, and it was just another fad for 99% of the kids playing, the real popularity boom that jumped population in the game happened with the mobile app, and its orders of magnitude more people versus some shit ass kids from the xp era playing simple games with under 1000 total people online at any given time
>>106737479i'm just a bit too old for this (i turned 18 in 2008), so while i have since heard of roblox, i'm not actually sure what it is.
>>106737518i was playing it in 2008 at the age of 12 for comparisonthink of it as 3D modelling/animation software with a very low barrier to entry and very high skill ceiling, so kids with no experience with anything like that can drop in and play with virtual legos and piece stuff together with 3D modelling tools that make sense to themand then as they learn more theres the tools there to learn more and more complicated things, from simple lua scripting to a whole animation and physics suite to a catalog of 3rd party plugins large enough to rival blender that lets you do even more
>>106728714This would make for a sick automobile dial/digital dash design.
>>106738047now i'm wondering what a full-on y2k car would look like, like the full y2k consumer product design look, really exaggerated curves, mixes of coloured, translucent and transparent plastics, deliberately scattered/"organic" and mis-matching UI elements, etc
>>106729031Very interesting!
>>106737428Speaking of browsers, anyone remember the original Mozilla Suite?
This might rattle one or two memcells... :^)>Hover! is a video game that combines elements of the games bumper cars and capture the flag. It was included on CD-ROM versions of the Microsoft Windows 95 operating system.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hover!
>>106728714How did we go from this to a built in video player in year of our lord 2025 that gets blown the guck out by a free media player, pic related.
>>106729055I did the Nagravision decoding thing with Premiere in Germany, I had a BT878 card and used MoreTV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UbKenFipjoright in the feels
Man, you guys had it so good back then. Being born in 2007 sucked.
>>106740881oppose enshittification, build out your own happy place.it doesn't need to be hopeless.t. oldfag
>>106740273enshitification
>>106741631Oh man, many breaks were sunk into this
>>106741668based
>pic relatedNot that old but brings back memories
>>106728714I have a small collection of custom XP ISOs, from back when everyone and their dog was pushing them out thanks to nLiteMost are fairly generic with (at most) less "bloat", depending on what the packager deemed bloat, and more wallpapers/themes but a few (like VooDoo edition) had some incredible tricks up their sleeve
I wish the textured mode would work under Wine
pawnold school flash multiplayer 2d team shooter, arguably pretty ahead of its time for simple online games, had a tile based map builder and custom map library, there were accounts and leaderboards and all kinds of stuffits still somewhat around now, theres been a revival with some quiet private servers with a few regular discord users, but back in the day there were hundreds of kids online at any given time just having a blast in thisnon scrolling map, so you could jump between map sections to annoy the shit out of people, and there were ways to crouch and hide yourself behind walk-through object tiles to ambush people, loved playing this when i was a kid
I'm the only person who bought a Diamond Rio, the first portable mp3 player, and before the iPod.
>>106741988and while im thinking about old 2d shooter flash games, raze, raze fucking slapseven outside of the scope of 2d flash shooters, raze is objectively good, it handles really well and gives a similar feeling of satisfaction when you absolutely shit stomp the enemies as you get with the announcer hyping up your killstreak in halo or unreal tournamentits floaty and fast, it almost feels like youre doing some absurd acrobatics flying across the map pulling obscene headshots and t-bagging the enemies corpse mid-air on your way through
>>106728714Dad had this on our computer because he didn't like Microsoft even back then.
>>106742020I was using a sandisk sansa until the early 2010's
>>106741928Picrel is VooDoo edition on a fresh install>>106731193Speaking of custom shells, Emerge Desktop
>>106742039>yfw I had a zune
>>106742060I never had zune money. And definitely not ipod money.
>>106742029My father was obsessed with Lotus, so I had Ami Pro.
>>106742465What it looked like. Pro tip: You don't need more.
>>106741004
>>106740130Of course. Shit was cash. Was so excited when SeaMonkey started to gain real traction. Breath of fresh air to have it back, for the most part.
>>106742039I still use one of these
>>106735984It's a shame how they imploded trying to release sonique 2. The betas they had out looked really nice.
>>106737424Yeah, pretty sure it was a fork of the mozilla suite. Same with the later Netscapes.
>>106740273I either never noticed that dirt and scratches on the logo, or I need to clean this fucking monitor.
>>106741708Xfire was my first social gaming thing. I would use it for halo custom edition on pc. I would host, record, and stream with it (to no one). I don't recall group chats, but there were other dms. It was great. Truly a childhood memory gem of listening to the gayest fucking euro pop trance dance shit on youtube on loop playing 64 v 64 on halo:ce.
>>106742480GeoWorks was a full GUI including a "visual word processor"
>>106742041>>106741928This may interest you.https://crustywindo.ws/Main_Page
>>106742856I had no idea. Thanks for the insight.
>>106742923It was so good for talking with friends playing different shit than you, aka non steam things
>>106743036>check out the bootleg windows 8.1 fortnite edition>pic relatedholy fuck lol
>>106730543That's what we call a "no"
>>106742977word processors are a patrician obsession.
>>106729601Cable internet use MPEG packets as a container for tcpip
>>106742862I added the scratches and dirt because I wanted it to look rugged
>>106741631wish i had the maps i made in that back in 2003
>>106741979looks like the powder toy
>>106729055>Retard: 5 (5 - 256)Barely retarded.
>>106730216https://archive.org/details/AST6050dDataUKhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBBkTVNIQewBon appetit.
>>106740178i used to like an album that had a song that had a sound that would always make me think of a sound that would frequently be heard when playing Hoverhappens at the very start but also more closely at 0:05https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klk6syaZA7k
>>106742041Where can I get my hands on this? Not on crustywindo.ws and a Google search reveals nothing
>>106728714There was an app named SISBOOM with which you could turn Python scripts into S60v2 apps. Never met anyone who knows about it
>>106740881>>106741004As 106741004 anon said, build out your own happy place. The good thing about pre-smartphone tech is that it's self-sufficient - no cloud servers, no subscriptions, the installers are still there if you know where to look (archive.org, winworldpc, certain Discords).I am building out my own happy place out of Linux, MS-DOS's Simtelnet software archive, PalmDB's collection of Palm PDA stuff, custom software I wrote, and now some custom hardware I'm building. It's achievable. Sky is the limit if you have the binaries, and you do. It's all been archived well enough to build upon.
>>106744338fun fact, doing this type of stuff is actually a positive mental health practice, a collection of objects, places, actions and such that let you relax and clear your mind for some people this is stuffed animals, an old movie and their favorite pillowfor /g/ anons this is the technology that makes you happy
>>106744297I'll upload it to my seedbox>>106743036Looks cool, thanks
>>106744297>>106746230You can fetch the torrent file from torrage or use this magnet link:magnet:?xt=urn:btih:2fa3654f59dc5c885181a2f3f05033df871bddd7&dn=Windows%20XP%20VooDoo%20Edition&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.demonii.com%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.stealth.si%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.torrent.eu.org%3A451%2Fannounce
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>>106728714For me, it's the shotgun modem. We had two phone lines at home because my dad worked from home. This thing was the GOAT at the time.
>>106746774i just today learned you can bond dial up connections from https://youtu.be/LZ259Jx8MQYlike i'd heard of people getting multiples so they can have a phone at the same time, or to run a bbs or something, but actually combining them into a single faster connection i don't recall hearing about
>>106728714QBasic and its included games, GORILLA.BAS and NIBBLES.BAS
>>106738128Suzuki Mobile Terrace.https://www.story-cars.com/2003-suzuki-mobile-terrace-conceptI'm 99% certain that Honda or another Japanese manufacturer did something similar, but even more asymmetric, but I can't find it. It was a kei car body with a flower-themed aesthetic the purposely eschewed superficial futuristic aspects.
>>106740130Yes, I miss it. I refused to use Firefox for so long because it was clearly inferior.
>>106742847I'm still mad I last mine/had it pickpocketed.
>>106728714Loved playing the original decades back.
>>106742847which one is this? I had a clip + now I have a fuze + and touch controls on it are kind of aggravating
>>106743856But just getting started.
>>106743426Wait, it's all Video?
don't have the older versions but they looked same as this
>>106749298I used to subscribe to a videogame magazine with demo CDs and they put incremental updates to a similar library that had not just text cheats but also trainers, save editors etc.
>>106728980There's a guy I follow on instagoy (yeah yeah I know) that ported blender into a sony ericsson
>>106733106>>106732044>>106731193funny how consistent UI is now something we can only dream oftake me back
>>106729055>Owning an Hauppauge TV tunerI actually found one when cleaning up old hardware boxes. Took it to the recycling center.I used to have a dreambox > good times
>>106749921kek I had one of those PCI tuner cards laying around somewhere
>>106748260oh god that was a fucking long time ago, I already forgot about it. thanks for reminding us fren
>>106748692clip jam, it's cheap and still available. I like to have a spare one in case it gets lost or anything
>>106749298i remember my gameshark or something similar for the gameboy advance having this or something very similar.
>>106742029Rent-a-center used to include that on the PCs they sold in 1994. That's the only place I ever saw it in the wild.
*nudge spams you*
>>106730957I tried to install one of these Windows skins in 2011, and it completely fried my first computer. My uncle had to hardreset the whole hard drive ;_;
>>106750268ok but fr i miss drawing in messages
>>106750359Yes, I remember my install being really unstable. I only used it for a couple of weeks, then had to remove it.
