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Speaking of old CPUs, and Gaming. Used to play original DOOM FPS game on Windows 3.1, with Intel 486SX CPU inside.
I never really liked GEOS, to me it felt like a GUI on top of an OS?!
You mean like the first 6 or 7 versions of windows.
Of course that is pretty much waht geos was.... I remember doing school assignments with geowrite and an old colour dot matrix printer. It may not have been the most ground breaking of software but it was pretty cool what they got to run on a c64.
I wonder why we even bothered with the C64 when we could have just used a raspberry pi or a Rock64 board. No wait...
Blasphemy!
Hiss!
ChadD got me curious about GEOS, as a result I've been fiddling with it most of the day. One thing I never had in the day was an REU (Ram Expansion Unit), with the advent of the 1541 UII+ I've got a monster of an REU with 16MB at my disposal. Once you load the OS into the REU via DMA it's actually quite snappy and useable.
Quite impressive for an 8 bit machine.
I never really liked GEOS, to me it felt like a GUI on top of an OS?!
What do you think Windows 1.x, 2.x, and 3.x were? They were GUIs that sat on top of DOS more than anything else, and it wasn't until Windows 95 came about that it really dumped that base to work upon but kept "MS-DOS 7.0" around for compatibility purposes.
(and yes I saw that ChadD made the reference to all the old 16-bit versions of Windows being the same)
AmigaOS fans check out MorphOS.
Runs identically to AmigaOS 3.1 with a modern interface and all the mod cons you'd expect out of a modern OS. It's even compatible with old software that doesn't hit the custom chipset directly, anything that hits the chipset directly requires the use of UAC - But it's conveniently integrated into the OS.
To keep with tradition it only runs on PPC hardware.
VM-able?
Wipeout used to be one of my favorite racers. That, and ATR.
I remember at age 14 I repaired a bug in that game. All of the copies I had available would freeze in the first space level at a certain moment. The music track file was iffy. Copied it to a fresh floppy, hex-edited the file and zeroed the faulty 'frame' (checksum was bad). Was the only guy in town able to finish that game thanks to this lol
Wipeout used to be one of my favorite racers. That, and ATR.
I remember at age 14 I repaired a bug in that game. All of the copies I had available would freeze in the first space level at a certain moment. The music track file was iffy. Copied it to a fresh floppy, hex-edited the file and zeroed the faulty 'frame' (checksum was bad). Was the only guy in town able to finish that game thanks to this lol
Lol I borrowed a friends copy of Friday the 13th and hex edited the start narrative to include his name instead of Jason with some nasty poop comments. He was not happy
For games at that time, Amiga OS was the best, although DOS was coming along by that point pretty well. However, I loved OS/2 of the PC side of things and the DOS games played very well through DOS mode in OS/2. These days are very fun and quite advanced but, those days were the heyday of growth and change.
Guy at work had an Amiga and he called it a door stop. By 1993 Dos PC was were it was at for gaming. PC had X-Com, not Amiga.
Guy at work had an Amiga and he called it a door stop. By 1993 Dos PC was were it was at for gaming. PC had X-Com, not Amiga.
Windows 95 was really impressive. Nothing since then was as awesome as that video from Weezer, or Hover.
The advent of Doom in 1993 was where PC gaming began to take off, I wouldn't go as far as to claim it's where PC gaming was at. Compared to the Amiga the PC was still just too expensive and way out of reach for most.
Twelve months later the PS1 was released, that's 'where it was at' for gaming.
Well, I am talking computers and not consoles. I had a PS1 I got from my brother and the graphics were horrible compared to PC. Compare NHL hockey between PC and PS1, night and day.
I had Doom2 but I got into PC gaming for flight simulators, deep strat games etc. I sold my console stuff and went PC.
I always loved 2k. It was lean, mean and did pretty much everything I needed to do. I held off on XP for quite a long time simply because I found 2k to be the overall superior OS. It was also quite easy to have a dual boot 98/2k machine and I kept that up for a while until I realized that I practically never booted into 98. At that point I dropped 98 and went 2k full time.
I'll also give NT4 an honorable mention. For various reasons I didn't use it as my main OS for long but it was nice while I did. The resource management was so much better than 95/98 and the multitasking was heaven compared to 95/98. On my old Pentium 100 system the difference was night and day. I could run three or four resource heavy programs on NT4 simultaneously without a hiccup. If I tried to do the same on 95/98 the OS would basically shit the bed. With the exact same hardware and setup 95/98 would have crashes, stuttering and it was slow as shit even if it did work while NT4 was butter smooth. Besides drivers and software compatibility there was one major issue with NT4. Messing around with the OS was a no no. It did not take much to FUBAR the OS if you went tinkering with it like I always had a habit of doing.
NT4 was very stripped down. We had a nickname NT 'Windows entee' which means 'I won't do it' in Finnish
I guess I'm the only one who didn't like Windows 2000.
I don't know, maybe I was unlucky. Around 2009 I got a job maintaining some machines. About 15 of them were running Win2k despite having legal XP Pro licenses.
All of them were bluescreening every few hours. The natives were at the brink of mentally shutting down.
My predecessor was clueless; he would change mobos around, HDDs, RAM, he failed to see the friggin pattern in front of him. He would 'diagnose' each machine with one of the three - HDD/RAM/Mobo. Prescott Celerons on all of them... "hey they're only running office software!".
It was a beautiful shitstorm. Day one I put 2 and 2 together - they were using NOD32 and it simply wasn't playing nicely with 2k. Literally nothing else was wrong.
I was hailed the new digital technology overlord master extreme as I was taking my sweet time upgrading one machine daily to (the then already mature) XP.
It's a god damn crime to sell Celeron CPU:s. For any purpose except for ship ballast.