You Can Now Run Windows 95 Inside Windows (or Linux or macOS)

kilroy67 said:
Heck my first hard drive was like 40MB, no GB just MB!
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My first PC (actually my father's) used a Seagate ST412 (10MB)
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kilroy67 said:
Heck my first hard drive was like 40MB, no GB just MB!
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Mine was a 20MB half-height 5.25" MFM Seagate ST-225. The "chirp-master" series that you now hear in cartoons, video games, and other media as "the sound of the computer room". Tsch-tsch---chirp-chirp-chirp---tsch-tsch---chirp-chirp-chirp.

I've heard them in Dexter's Lab, Shogo, and other cartoons and games over the years.

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Hit the d/l button, then started to watch the vid that modi123 posted. The d/l completed in less than a minute. Back in the day, it took me longer to crack into the cellophane wrap, open the box, and pull out then sort all twenty-one 1.44MB 3.5" floppy disks, just to get ready for installation...
 
J3RK said:
Ha! You win! (see my ST-225 post...)

Did you run Direct Access? :D Since the drive would only fit a small handful of programs/games, DA was great. There were enough menu-items for everything.
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I do not recall. I was about 5 - 6 years old at the time. What I remember is DOS 2.?, The FDD that took up 2 x 5.25" bays was next to the hard drive and MFM. I do not remember what I did on that system. But I do remember that my gaming began on a 286 with DOS 3.0. The games I remember spending the most time on are
 
NeghVar said:
I do not recall. I was about 5 - 6 years old at the time. What I remember is DOS 2.?, The FDD that took up 2 x 5.25" bays was next to the hard drive and MFM. I do not remember what I did on that system. But I do remember that my gaming began on a 286 with DOS 3.0. The games I remember spending the most time on are
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You got me beat, my gaming began on a Packard Bell 486/66DX2 Windows 3.1 and the game was Doom!
 
NeghVar said:
I do not recall. I was about 5 - 6 years old at the time. What I remember is DOS 2.?, The FDD that took up 2 x 5.25" bays was next to the hard drive and MFM. I do not remember what I did on that system. But I do remember that my gaming began on a 286 with DOS 3.0. The games I remember spending the most time on are
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I think I was 10-12ish. It's a bit... hazy... :D I started with DOS 3.2 on a hand-built XT machine with an ISA RAM expansion, a Paradise 350 EGA card, and a 12 or 13" Princeton Graphics monitor. We had 2 5.25" floppy drives and the Seagate hard drive. It could just barely play Hero's Quest, and Codename Iceman. It would play King's Quest 3 like a champ though. :D We were slightly behind as you can tell by the hardware to game gap, but those were the parts we could get our hands on when we decided to try building a PC. (we were C64 users at the time) Shortly after that though we built a 286 with 4MB (30-pin SIMMs) Soundblaster 1.0, 256K VGA card (Cirrus based I think) and our first IDE hard drive. (or RLE or whatever was available right then 40MB I think) I got my Amiga 500 at the same time.

That 286 would BARELY run Wing Commander and Wolfenstein. It did, but... :D (WC was probably 3-4 fps ok probably more like 10...) Jumped to an AMD 386 DX-40 VLB and Orchid Fahrenheit 1280 after that though. Then I was off to the races...
 
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kilroy67 said:
When my father worked at IBM in the seventies and eighties he brought one of these home one day, I way still very young and never used it but I remember seeing it set up in the living room.
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Ours looked like that, but it was all franken-parts inside. :D Except we had half-height 5.25" drives stacked over each other. The second bay had the HDD. Must have been around 1988 I think? Like I said, a little late in the game for an XT, but we had fun building it. I still used the C64 heavily until I got the Amiga in 1989 or 1990.
 
kilroy67 said:
Heck my first hard drive was like 40MB, no GB just MB!
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My first PC's hard drive was a 40mb on a 286 clone I built out of junk parts in like 1990. Coming from a Commodore 64 I was like... WOAH I will NEVER fill this thing up.

Those early GB hard drives, circa 1995 or so were like $500 for a gigabyte. WOAH! I will NEVER, EVER fill this thing up! But I did. We all did.
 
Burticus said:
My first PC's hard drive was a 40mb on a 286 clone I built out of junk parts in like 1990. Coming from a Commodore 64 I was like... WOAH I will NEVER fill this thing up.

Those early GB hard drives, circa 1995 or so were like $500 for a gigabyte. WOAH! I will NEVER, EVER fill this thing up! But I did. We all did.
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We always filled them up. Still do. :D

The funny part is, I made a decision a while back to never touch a spinning drive again unless it was at work. So, I actually have less space than I did on all my machines now than a few years ago. I get by though. I'm just pickier about what I hold onto.

Wow, two nostalgic threads in one day and from different eras. This one, and there's a touch of it going on in the DICE / Ray Tracing thread too. :D
 
Ok well since were all talking about our old computers my 486/66DX2 died one day, couldn't figure out why. I brought it to a computer shop and come to fine out it was this LOL
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kilroy67 said:
Ok well since were all talking about our old computers my 486/66DX2 died one day, couldn't figure out why. I brought it to a computer shop and come to fine out it was this LOL
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Glass fuse!!! Still use slow-blow glass fuses in my linear power supplies. (for synthesizers though, not computers) I bet that was a happy visit!
 
J3RK said:
I still used the C64 heavily until I got the Amiga in 1989 or 1990.
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Still got it? Which one? I always wanted an Amiga but couldn't afford it. Went straight from C64 (well I also had a 128 until the power supply blew up, but it rarely left C64 mode) to a garbage bin 286 that I built into a wooden box.

If I ever find I have a lot of money laying around that serves zero purpose, I will buy an Amiga just to stare at it.
 
Burticus said:
Still got it? Which one? I always wanted an Amiga but couldn't afford it. Went straight from C64 (well I also had a 128 until the power supply blew up, but it rarely left C64 mode) to a garbage bin 286 that I built into a wooden box.

If I ever find I have a lot of money laying around that serves zero purpose, I will buy an Amiga just to stare at it.
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We got the '83 round "classic looking" C64 in '83. We couldn't afford the 1541 drive right away, but my dad traded one of his guitars to a friend that had two of them, so we had that shortly after. I could play Jumpan in a matter of minutes. :D (years later my dad's friend felt bad about that trade, and gave my dad back his guitar) To be fair we got a TON of use out of that 1541.

Later, in an effort to hack in a PAL frequency crystal and a PAL switch (so I could run european cracks and demos without flickering) my cousin and I fried that C64. So, we got the C64C as that was new at the time. That one lasted until about 1990 I think when I once again attempted the PAL hack. It worked mostly, but I think I got a solder blob on the board that eventually killed it. That's about when we built that 286 I mentioned. I had to drool over the Amiga at a few peoples' houses for a couple of years, but XMAS 1990 I think they ran that Amiga 500 deal where you could get it for $299 or something for a bit, and my parents got it for my brother and I for XMAS. We didn't have an RGB monitor though, so I had to get the composite adapter and use the old C64 monitor. It actually didn't look bad, and worked fine in PAL and NTSC. By that time my friends/family that had Amigas had built up a very nice trading network (I use the term network loosely, only a couple of them had modems... :D ) I was purely "bring a box of floppies to my cousin's house-NET" :D

Anyway, about the C64s... I had my 1541 still up until about a year ago. I actually built a cable and ripped all of my disks to D64 files. I have a stack of C64Cs and one 128D in my basement that I grabbed off of ebay before the big SID Chip craze of the early 2000s. I also have a stack of SID chips of various revisions. I keep planning to build something for them. I also got a few of those cartridges with SD slots, to run off of on the real C64s. They're pretty much all idle in a work-room though, because it's so much easier to load up VICE. I may eventually do something cool with all of it though. :D
 
This doesn't work very good on a 4k screen and there's no way to zoom in. Now I have to install VMware or something and actually install Win95 because changing resolution all the time is just too much work.

Edit: I think just finding a really old computer to install it on is better idea. lol
 
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Messed around with it a little... interesting but one gets bored quickly unless I was to spend time to figure out how to add storage to install things.

What I did find interesting is how much of the right click, alt type commands still work.
 
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