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Hab' für euch gerade die GameStar CD-ROM aus 1/2001 ins Internet Archive hochgeladen. Darauf gab es damals eine Vollversion von Diablo, inkl. deutschem Handbuch im PDF-Format:
https://archive.org/details/gamestar_0101_diablo
Frohes Monsterkloppen! 😉
#Diablo #GameStar #CDROM #Win95 #Windows95 #Gaming #PCGaming #Retro #RetroGaming #Blizzard #90er #90s
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Hab' für euch gerade die GameStar CD-ROM aus 1/2001 ins Internet Archive hochgeladen. Darauf gab es damals eine Vollversion von Diablo, inkl. deutschem Handbuch im PDF-Format:
https://archive.org/details/gamestar_0101_diablo
Frohes Monsterkloppen! 😉
#Diablo #GameStar #CDROM #Win95 #Windows95 #Gaming #PCGaming #Retro #RetroGaming #Blizzard #90er #90s
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Hab' für euch gerade die GameStar CD-ROM aus 1/2001 ins Internet Archive hochgeladen. Darauf gab es damals eine Vollversion von Diablo, inkl. deutschem Handbuch im PDF-Format:
https://archive.org/details/gamestar_0101_diablo
Frohes Monsterkloppen! 😉
#Diablo #GameStar #CDROM #Win95 #Windows95 #Gaming #PCGaming #Retro #RetroGaming #Blizzard #90er #90s
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Hab' für euch gerade die GameStar CD-ROM aus 1/2001 ins Internet Archive hochgeladen. Darauf gab es damals eine Vollversion von Diablo, inkl. deutschem Handbuch im PDF-Format:
https://archive.org/details/gamestar_0101_diablo
Frohes Monsterkloppen! 😉
#Diablo #GameStar #CDROM #Win95 #Windows95 #Gaming #PCGaming #Retro #RetroGaming #Blizzard #90er #90s
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good night Infinisys.co.jp, and thank you for your 35+ years of selling the official After Dark screen savers and modules. 🫡
here are a few snapshots of their After Dark pages over the past 30 years.
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this is some pretty obscure history for Ultima fans, but i thought i'd share it here in case it brings back some memories for someone else too.
back in the mid-90s, finding any information about upcoming Ultima games was a worldwide treasure hunt. Origin Systems/EA hadn't figured out the internet as a marketing tool yet, so fans would root around through every gaming magazine for a morsel of info on Ultima IX.
a single blurry, low-resolution screenshot appeared one day - I first saw it on Usenet. someone claimed it was a screenshot from Ultima IX, found in a german magazine. it was a knight in a suit of armour, standing on a staircase near a bookshelf in some kind of castle. the render was stunningly realistic (given the 3d capabilities at the time)
some believed it, many did not. people got *excited*, whether they were dubious or believers. i was among the many who wanted to believe.
a few years later, real Ultima IX screenshots started to appear, and that old screenshot was largely forgotten.
i thought about that screenshot for decades afterward, because i never really knew if it was real or a hoax. one weekend, i sat down to figure it out.
it took many hours of trolling through Usenet archives from the mid-90s, and digging through many false leads, but i found it. people had said in 1996 that it came from a German magazine called GameStar.
they were partly correct. it was a german magazine, but it was another one called PowerPlay. It was an extensive interview with Richard Garriott at his peak, rich with EA dollars and living like a pirate.
in between the interview columns were hi-res screenshots of Ultima IX as it existed in 1996. this was not (yet) the isometric engine that people fell in love with, but what appear to be renders in what i presume to be 3DS Max.
so here they are - 30 years later. i suspect these were mockups made to promote the game, rather than anything playable.
i've uploaded archival copies to IA here:
https://archive.org/details/ultima_ix_powerplay_screenshotsand if you read German, you can read the extended interview here (pp. 172-178):
https://archive.org/details/powerplaymagazine-1996-02 -
on today's episode of game collecting speculator stupidity: Arcomage
https://www.ebay.com/itm/327132405136
for anyone not familiar with Arcomage: it is a wonderful card minigame built into the Might & Magic 7 and 8 RPGs, that plays a bit like a simplified M:TG.
ca. 2000, 3DO re-released it as a separate game. it didn't sell well, and ended up in $5 bargain bins a year later.
a few years later, it disappeared completely, and became hard to find even on ebay. a copy would pop up for $25 now and then. early in the pandemic, i saw a cd sell for about $75, which i thought was excessive.
this isn't a highly sought after title. it's generally well liked, but only among RPG people, and only among a particular M&M subset of those people. there are a dozen good arcomage clones out there, and have been for over 20 years (since the Flash era).
so here we are today: two idiots chip-bidding each other, now at $400 USD, on a cd in a jewel case. the seller is going to wake up laughing every morning until these two collectors ruin one another.
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when i was a kid with my first 2x cd-rom drive, buying a cd-rom in a retail box was a $100+ CAD affair. so at my house that never happened.
all of my software on CD were either pack-ins that came with the computer, or from cheap multi-disc compilation packs like Sirius Software's 5ft10 pak.
one of those pack-ins was a copy of Encarta '94. it had a nondescript jewel case without cover art - just a green MS certificate of authenticity. i never knew what the retail box looked like, until today.
holy cow is it beautiful. the box is a hardcover flip-open activity book, designed for kidhands to pull open and rifle through. visually, it models the Dorling Kindersley UK educational books - I assume they did the graphic design.
the user manual is a thick kid friendly comic book. there's even a separate manual that teaches kids how to write a book report and *then* an entire section of proper citations and giving research credit.
MS was a big, big place in those days. its educational division was more or less walled off from the rest of the murderous beast, and it shows. this program is thoughtful, beautiful, and suffused with craftsmanship.
i'm right in the middle of retooling the Multimedia HyperGuide podcast, and now i have to do an episode on Encarta. it's so damned well made. in the mean time, feel free to listen to previous episodes here:
https://podcast.vga256.com -
when i was a kid with my first 2x cd-rom drive, buying a cd-rom in a retail box was a $100+ CAD affair. so at my house that never happened.
all of my software on CD were either pack-ins that came with the computer, or from cheap multi-disc compilation packs like Sirius Software's 5ft10 pak.
one of those pack-ins was a copy of Encarta '94. it had a nondescript jewel case without cover art - just a green MS certificate of authenticity. i never knew what the retail box looked like, until today.
holy cow is it beautiful. the box is a hardcover flip-open activity book, designed for kidhands to pull open and rifle through. visually, it models the Dorling Kindersley UK educational books - I assume they did the graphic design.
the user manual is a thick kid friendly comic book. there's even a separate manual that teaches kids how to write a book report and *then* an entire section of proper citations and giving research credit.
MS was a big, big place in those days. its educational division was more or less walled off from the rest of the murderous beast, and it shows. this program is thoughtful, beautiful, and suffused with craftsmanship.
i'm right in the middle of retooling the Multimedia HyperGuide podcast, and now i have to do an episode on Encarta. it's so damned well made. in the mean time, feel free to listen to previous episodes here:
https://podcast.vga256.com -
when i was a kid with my first 2x cd-rom drive, buying a cd-rom in a retail box was a $100+ CAD affair. so at my house that never happened.
all of my software on CD were either pack-ins that came with the computer, or from cheap multi-disc compilation packs like Sirius Software's 5ft10 pak.
one of those pack-ins was a copy of Encarta '94. it had a nondescript jewel case without cover art - just a green MS certificate of authenticity. i never knew what the retail box looked like, until today.
holy cow is it beautiful. the box is a hardcover flip-open activity book, designed for kidhands to pull open and rifle through. visually, it models the Dorling Kindersley UK educational books - I assume they did the graphic design.
the user manual is a thick kid friendly comic book. there's even a separate manual that teaches kids how to write a book report and *then* an entire section of proper citations and giving research credit.
MS was a big, big place in those days. its educational division was more or less walled off from the rest of the murderous beast, and it shows. this program is thoughtful, beautiful, and suffused with craftsmanship.
i'm right in the middle of retooling the Multimedia HyperGuide podcast, and now i have to do an episode on Encarta. it's so damned well made. in the mean time, feel free to listen to previous episodes here:
https://podcast.vga256.com -
when i was a kid with my first 2x cd-rom drive, buying a cd-rom in a retail box was a $100+ CAD affair. so at my house that never happened.
all of my software on CD were either pack-ins that came with the computer, or from cheap multi-disc compilation packs like Sirius Software's 5ft10 pak.
one of those pack-ins was a copy of Encarta '94. it had a nondescript jewel case without cover art - just a green MS certificate of authenticity. i never knew what the retail box looked like, until today.
holy cow is it beautiful. the box is a hardcover flip-open activity book, designed for kidhands to pull open and rifle through. visually, it models the Dorling Kindersley UK educational books - I assume they did the graphic design.
the user manual is a thick kid friendly comic book. there's even a separate manual that teaches kids how to write a book report and *then* an entire section of proper citations and giving research credit.
MS was a big, big place in those days. its educational division was more or less walled off from the rest of the murderous beast, and it shows. this program is thoughtful, beautiful, and suffused with craftsmanship.
i'm right in the middle of retooling the Multimedia HyperGuide podcast, and now i have to do an episode on Encarta. it's so damned well made. in the mean time, feel free to listen to previous episodes here:
https://podcast.vga256.com -
when i was a kid with my first 2x cd-rom drive, buying a cd-rom in a retail box was a $100+ CAD affair. so at my house that never happened.
all of my software on CD were either pack-ins that came with the computer, or from cheap multi-disc compilation packs like Sirius Software's 5ft10 pak.
one of those pack-ins was a copy of Encarta '94. it had a nondescript jewel case without cover art - just a green MS certificate of authenticity. i never knew what the retail box looked like, until today.
holy cow is it beautiful. the box is a hardcover flip-open activity book, designed for kidhands to pull open and rifle through. visually, it models the Dorling Kindersley UK educational books - I assume they did the graphic design.
the user manual is a thick kid friendly comic book. there's even a separate manual that teaches kids how to write a book report and *then* an entire section of proper citations and giving research credit.
MS was a big, big place in those days. its educational division was more or less walled off from the rest of the murderous beast, and it shows. this program is thoughtful, beautiful, and suffused with craftsmanship.
i'm right in the middle of retooling the Multimedia HyperGuide podcast, and now i have to do an episode on Encarta. it's so damned well made. in the mean time, feel free to listen to previous episodes here:
https://podcast.vga256.com -
Lustig! Ich hab das originale Diablo natürlich auch schon seit Jahren in meiner Sammlung auf GOG.com, aber ich habs gerade auch nochmal hinbekommen, es unter 86Box und Windows 95 von einer alten Heft-CD der GameStar 1/2001 zum Laufen zu bringen. Gibt dem Ganzen nochmal extra Nostalgie-Punkte! 😎
#GameStar #HeftCD #Diablo #RetroGaming #Retro #Gaming #90s #CDROM #Win95 #Windows95 #PCGaming
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Lustig! Ich hab das originale Diablo natürlich auch schon seit Jahren in meiner Sammlung auf GOG.com, aber ich habs gerade auch nochmal hinbekommen, es unter 86Box und Windows 95 von einer alten Heft-CD der GameStar 1/2001 zum Laufen zu bringen. Gibt dem Ganzen nochmal extra Nostalgie-Punkte! 😎
#GameStar #HeftCD #Diablo #RetroGaming #Retro #Gaming #90s #CDROM #Win95 #Windows95 #PCGaming
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Lustig! Ich hab das originale Diablo natürlich auch schon seit Jahren in meiner Sammlung auf GOG.com, aber ich habs gerade auch nochmal hinbekommen, es unter 86Box und Windows 95 von einer alten Heft-CD der GameStar 1/2001 zum Laufen zu bringen. Gibt dem Ganzen nochmal extra Nostalgie-Punkte! 😎
#GameStar #HeftCD #Diablo #RetroGaming #Retro #Gaming #90s #CDROM #Win95 #Windows95 #PCGaming
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Lustig! Ich hab das originale Diablo natürlich auch schon seit Jahren in meiner Sammlung auf GOG.com, aber ich habs gerade auch nochmal hinbekommen, es unter 86Box und Windows 95 von einer alten Heft-CD der GameStar 1/2001 zum Laufen zu bringen. Gibt dem Ganzen nochmal extra Nostalgie-Punkte! 😎
#GameStar #HeftCD #Diablo #RetroGaming #Retro #Gaming #90s #CDROM #Win95 #Windows95 #PCGaming
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retro Furcadia tee from 25 years ago found on ebay
i think this was from one of the furcadia fundraisers held by DrCat and 'Manda.
totally wholesome; a time when its inhabitants kept the entire business afloat through sheer love and dedication to the online community.
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it's hard to imagine that back in the mid-90s, the stiff and strait-laced MS had an entire department for making kids multimedia
their edutainment department was mostly independent of the rest of the monster, and produced some really unique educational software. Dinosaurs is one of their best - the combination of high production value, solid paleontological detail, and skeumorphic interfaces makes for a totally memorable experience.
i found this non-interactive demo buried in the program. i heard one of the former MS developers mention recently that scenes like these were built in Macromedia Director, and then nested within the program (built in C/C++) using a Director runtime.
you might notice the weird random b+w noise around the window, and in some of the background. that's a byproduct of the team using indexed palettes to handle the hundreds of compressed images. every single image was run through DeBabelizer to extract its index, and then averaged with other images to find shared colour palettes from 256 colours. the team had to make sure that the colour palette chosen never intruded into the "safe palette" used by the window frame, titlebar, and background. obviously, this one paletting error snuck past QA.
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it's hard to imagine that back in the mid-90s, the stiff and strait-laced MS had an entire department for making kids multimedia
their edutainment department was mostly independent of the rest of the monster, and produced some really unique educational software. Dinosaurs is one of their best - the combination of high production value, solid paleontological detail, and skeumorphic interfaces makes for a totally memorable experience.
i found this non-interactive demo buried in the program. i heard one of the former MS developers mention recently that scenes like these were built in Macromedia Director, and then nested within the program (built in C/C++) using a Director runtime.
you might notice the weird random b+w noise around the window, and in some of the background. that's a byproduct of the team using indexed palettes to handle the hundreds of compressed images. every single image was run through DeBabelizer to extract its index, and then averaged with other images to find shared colour palettes from 256 colours. the team had to make sure that the colour palette chosen never intruded into the "safe palette" used by the window frame, titlebar, and background. obviously, this one paletting error snuck past QA.
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it's hard to imagine that back in the mid-90s, the stiff and strait-laced MS had an entire department for making kids multimedia
their edutainment department was mostly independent of the rest of the monster, and produced some really unique educational software. Dinosaurs is one of their best - the combination of high production value, solid paleontological detail, and skeumorphic interfaces makes for a totally memorable experience.
i found this non-interactive demo buried in the program. i heard one of the former MS developers mention recently that scenes like these were built in Macromedia Director, and then nested within the program (built in C/C++) using a Director runtime.
you might notice the weird random b+w noise around the window, and in some of the background. that's a byproduct of the team using indexed palettes to handle the hundreds of compressed images. every single image was run through DeBabelizer to extract its index, and then averaged with other images to find shared colour palettes from 256 colours. the team had to make sure that the colour palette chosen never intruded into the "safe palette" used by the window frame, titlebar, and background. obviously, this one paletting error snuck past QA.
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it's hard to imagine that back in the mid-90s, the stiff and strait-laced MS had an entire department for making kids multimedia
their edutainment department was mostly independent of the rest of the monster, and produced some really unique educational software. Dinosaurs is one of their best - the combination of high production value, solid paleontological detail, and skeumorphic interfaces makes for a totally memorable experience.
i found this non-interactive demo buried in the program. i heard one of the former MS developers mention recently that scenes like these were built in Macromedia Director, and then nested within the program (built in C/C++) using a Director runtime.
you might notice the weird random b+w noise around the window, and in some of the background. that's a byproduct of the team using indexed palettes to handle the hundreds of compressed images. every single image was run through DeBabelizer to extract its index, and then averaged with other images to find shared colour palettes from 256 colours. the team had to make sure that the colour palette chosen never intruded into the "safe palette" used by the window frame, titlebar, and background. obviously, this one paletting error snuck past QA.
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it's hard to imagine that back in the mid-90s, the stiff and strait-laced MS had an entire department for making kids multimedia
their edutainment department was mostly independent of the rest of the monster, and produced some really unique educational software. Dinosaurs is one of their best - the combination of high production value, solid paleontological detail, and skeumorphic interfaces makes for a totally memorable experience.
i found this non-interactive demo buried in the program. i heard one of the former MS developers mention recently that scenes like these were built in Macromedia Director, and then nested within the program (built in C/C++) using a Director runtime.
you might notice the weird random b+w noise around the window, and in some of the background. that's a byproduct of the team using indexed palettes to handle the hundreds of compressed images. every single image was run through DeBabelizer to extract its index, and then averaged with other images to find shared colour palettes from 256 colours. the team had to make sure that the colour palette chosen never intruded into the "safe palette" used by the window frame, titlebar, and background. obviously, this one paletting error snuck past QA.
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Playing DigDug from Microsoft's "Return of Arcade" on Windows 95 using 86Box. That's what #RetroGaming looked like 30 years ago! Still awesome! 😉
#90s #Windows #Win95 #Microsoft #Arcade #Retro #90er #Gaming #PCGaming #Emulation #86Box
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several years ago I began archiving educational software. Dangerous Creatures had the BEST Win95 Plus! Pack theme. 😻
edit: I totally misremembered. The dangerous creatures theme with the cougar deskop was sorta ok. the BEST theme was called Jungle. it came with the Plus! For Kids Pack
for @david_bardos
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MS Dinosaurs and Encarta are often fondly remembered, but i personally think that Oceans had some of the best multimedia design. it's very book-like in presentation, with zero scrolling. every page is carefully written to exploit the limited space, and the sheer amount of hyperlinking between pages makes exploration *fun*.
here's a 2 minute quick tour of Oceans. i'm not sure how many people ever saw it back in the day. top-tier edutainment imo.
one of the most painful aspects of wikipedia is that due to its layout and allergy to brevity/density, it's about as fun to explore as a phone book. i'd love to some day see a redesign focused on the joy of exploration.
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Mal ein Blick zurück auf den "DLH '98" und, es gab auch sogar eine DOS-Version! Der "Dirty Little Helper" war die größte offline Cheat-Datenbank und zwischen 1996 und 2006 quasi ein Must-Have für jeden Gamer! Und das ist jetzt auch schon wieder 20 Jahre her. Es ist zum Heulen! 😆
#DLH98 #DLH #DirtyLittleHelper #Cheats #Gaming #RetroGaming #Retro #90s #2000s #90er #DOS #DOSGaming #Win95 #PCGaming
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Mal ein Blick zurück auf den "DLH '98" und, es gab auch sogar eine DOS-Version! Der "Dirty Little Helper" war die größte offline Cheat-Datenbank und zwischen 1996 und 2006 quasi ein Must-Have für jeden Gamer! Und das ist jetzt auch schon wieder 20 Jahre her. Es ist zum Heulen! 😆
#DLH98 #DLH #DirtyLittleHelper #Cheats #Gaming #RetroGaming #Retro #90s #2000s #90er #DOS #DOSGaming #Win95 #PCGaming
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Mal ein Blick zurück auf den "DLH '98" und, es gab auch sogar eine DOS-Version! Der "Dirty Little Helper" war die größte offline Cheat-Datenbank und zwischen 1996 und 2006 quasi ein Must-Have für jeden Gamer! Und das ist jetzt auch schon wieder 20 Jahre her. Es ist zum Heulen! 😆
#DLH98 #DLH #DirtyLittleHelper #Cheats #Gaming #RetroGaming #Retro #90s #2000s #90er #DOS #DOSGaming #Win95 #PCGaming
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I just added another BIN/CUE disc image to "Kai's Photo Soap" on the Internet Archive. It's 80MB bigger than just the plain ISO file, which might be the Power Macintosh version of the program, but I'm not sure.
https://archive.org/details/kais_photo_soap_de
#PowerMac #Apple #Macintosh #RetroComputing #Retro #Tech #90s #Windows95 #Win95
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Das Bildbearbeitungsprogramm "Kai's Photo Soap" aus dem Jahre 1997 steht ab sofort im Internet Archive zum Download zur Verfügung. Die CD-ROM ist kompatibel mit Windows 95, NT 4.0 und... wenn ich das korrekt verstanden habe... Power Macintosh. Viel Spaß damit und frohe Osterfeiertage!
Link: https://archive.org/details/kais_photo_soap_de
#RetroComputing #Windows95 #Win95 #90s #90er #CDROM #Retro #Tech #Oldschool
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Is anyone still familiar with this photo editing classic from 1997? "Kai's Photo Soap"... for Windows 95. I've had this as a young student back in the day... And I remember wasting a lot of expensive ink with my poor LPT1 ink-jet printer.
The CD-ROM runs great using 86Box. Pure nostalgia! 😍
P.S. Here's a link: Link: https://archive.org/details/kais_photo_soap_de
#RetroComputing #Windows95 #Win95 #PhotoEditing #90s #90er #Oldschool #CDROM #Retro #Tech #Emulation #86Box
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Oh, mein gutes, altes Windows 95 hat heute auch bemerkt, dass die Sommerzeit begonnen hat. Hat sich vermutlich auch keiner der damaligen Programmierer vorgestellt, dass das Ding noch 2026 Verwendung finden würde! 😜
#Windows95 #Win95 #RetroComputing #Retro #Tech #Microsoft #Windows #90er #90s #Emulation #86Box
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Windows Update Restored
This project restores the update functionality for Windows 95 through Windows XP, including Automatic Updates. Our goal is to bring back the convenience of the original Windows Update and Microsoft Update websites, letting users relive the classic experience. -
Running Windows on a MacBook Neo? Of course!... Windows 95! This is still the best version..
#86Box #Win95 #Windows95 #RetroComputing #Emulation #MacBookNeo #MacBook #Apple #MacOS #Retro
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I ran a few 86Box virtual machines on the MacBook Neo to check out its emulation capabilities. Everything works quite nicely, from discovering my existing retro machines, running all kinds of DOS games, MT-32 music emulation, even the floppy drive sounds.
The emulation performance seems to be very respectable for an A18Pro iPhone chip. I went through several virtual systems, from a slow 386SX all the way up to a Pentium MMX 233MHz and even, just for testing, a Pentium II 300MHz. The performance meter never dipped below 100% and everything did work as expected. I believe, this is VERY good news for retro gaming on this budget MacBook.
Conclusion: I'm very happy!
#RetroGaming #MacBookNeo #MacGaming #86Box #Emulation #Apple #MacBook #AppleA18Pro #Retro #Gaming #DOSGaming #Win95 #Windows95
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Hab mir jetzt heute mal ein altes Monopoly ersteigert, welches ich früher auch schonmal hatte. Hat zum Glück nur 5 EUR gekostet 😉 .
Ich hab das Ding jetzt auch auf Windows 95 zum Laufen gebracht und es sieht auch heute noch wirklich brauchbar aus. Auch wenn es nicht wirklich gut auf FullHD hochskaliert. Es geht doch nichts über eine rosarote Retro-Brille!
#Windows95 #Win95 #CDROM #Monopoly #Hasbro #RetroGaming #90er #90s #Retro
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Hier noch ein sehr spezielles Sammlerstück aus dem Jahre 2000. Eine kleine, zerlegbare Mini CD mit der Testversion von WinZip 8.0. Kompatibel mit Windows 95/98/NT, sowie Windows 2000/XP. Solch ein Datenträger ist heutzutage wohl extrem selten.
https://archive.org/details/winzip8_de_demo-cd
Viel Spaß damit!
#Win95 #Windows95 #WinZip #Win98 #Windows98 #Kompression #Sammlerstück #CDROM
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Hab tatsächlich lange überlegt, ob ich das hier überhaupt hochladen sollte:
Eine noch unfertige, nur für PC-Hersteller bestimmte OEM-Boot-Diskettenvorlage für Windows 95 SR-2. Noch ohne CD-ROM-Treiber, aber mit Anleitungen und OEM-Hinweisen zur Installation in AUTOEXEC.BAT, CONFIG.SYS und DRVCOPY.INF durch den jeweiligen OEM-Partner.
Kopiert man eine funktionierende SAMPLE.SYS Treiberdatei auf die Diskette, funktioniert sie einwandfrei. Viele Hersteller passten eine solche Diskette aber natürlich noch weiter an.
https://archive.org/details/mswin_95_de_oem-sr2_bootdisk_template
Viel Spaß beim Basteln! 😉
#Windows95 #Win95 #OEM #Microsoft #BootDisk #Diskette #FloppyDisk #KryoFlux #Treiber #CDROM #90er #90s #RetroComputing #Retro
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Hier gibt es nun auch noch die Windows 95 OEM CD-ROM des SR-2.1 aus dem Jahre 1997, sowie eine dazu kompatible Boot-Diskette mit CD-ROM-Treibern verschiedener Hersteller. Das Windows 95, Service Release 2.1 unterstützte bereits FAT32, Partitionen über einer Größe von 2GB, sowie grundlegende USB-Treiber. Die Boot-Diskette liegt sowohl als .img Disk Image, als auch in Form sauberer KryoFlux Streams vor.
CD-ROM: https://archive.org/details/mswin_95_de_oem_sr2.1
Boot-Diskette: https://archive.org/details/mswin_95_de_oem-sr2_bootdiskViel Spaß damit! 🙂
#CDROM #KryoFlux #FloppyDisk #Diskette #Windows95 #Win95 #Microsoft #90er #90s #RetroComputing #32Bit
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Für das Betriebssytem Windows 95 hab ich soeben auch noch eine Diskettenfassung der deutschen Updateversion hochgeladen. Wie schon bei der Vollversion, die ich letzte Woche veröffentlicht hatte, handelt es sich auch hier wieder um Datenträger im 1,68MB DMF-Format.
https://archive.org/details/mswin_95_de_update_disks
Ich wünsch euch viel Spaß damit!
#RetroComputing #Win95 #Windows95 #Microsoft #FloppyDisk #Diskette #InternetArchive #90s #90er
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in 1998 i was in my 2nd year of university; once a month i'd have enough cash to buy a new PC game. cash burning a hole in my wallet, i'd wander over to my favourite big box store (The Future Shop) and browse through their 4 aisles of big box PC games and spend 1-2 hours reading the copy on *every* box. there were so many great AAA games out that i'd end up having to choose between 3 or 4. it was torture.
that particular day i had to choose between Fallout 2, X-Wing vs Tie Fighter, Half-Life and Baldur's Gate which were all in the centre of one aisle. 😓
at the very end of the same aisle were games with FMV like Riven, Ripper, and a new one called Black Dahlia. it had a huge yellow STARRING DENNIS HOPPER sticker on the front cover. i gave it a dirty look: years earlier i had been burned to a crisp on FMV games like The Critical Path and Ground Zero: Texas, and i wasn't going to make that mistake again. i grabbed a copy of Half-Life and went straight to the checkouts.
25+ years later, i finally got to see what i missed out on. Black Dahlia was among the last of the classic FMV adventure games, and it's surprisingly well-produced. @sqhistorian's documentary is composed of interviews with the original cast, crew and development team - and watches exactly like an (Ars) War Stories doc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjaLilGWm_k
if you're into the mechanics of movie production, set design, and the complexities of translating cinematics to gameplay, i highly recommend it.
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"The #userinterfaces of the late ’90s were the last ones designed by people who actually cared, by people who approached the whole process with the end user in mind, rooted in scientific data collected by simply looking at people use their ideas. They were optimised for the user as best they could, instead of being optimised for the company’s bottom line.
It’s been downhill ever since."From:
The #Windows 95 user interface: a case study in #usability engineering
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Auch wenn die Dinger vermutlich schon zu Dutzenden im Netz rumfliegen, hab ich jetzt doch nochmal im Keller gekramt und meine originale Windows 95 Update CD-ROM eingescannt und alles komplett ins Internet Archive hochgeladen. Inkl. CD-Sleeve mit Seriennummer. Ich bilde mir ja immer noch ein, meine Scans wären schöner als andere... 😉 .
https://archive.org/details/mswin_95_de_update
Viel Spaß damit!
#Windows #Win95 #Windows95 #Update #CDROM #RetroComputing #Oldschool #90er #90s #Software #IBMPC
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Boahh... ich hab heute wohl bald 100 Mal Windows 95 in 86Box installiert um alle Boot Disketten und CD-ROM Varianten durchzutesten und in die Sammlung einzusortieren. Bin - mit ein paar Pausen, wo ich am Auto gebastelt hatte - bestimmt seit 12 Stunden am Basteln. Uff... Ich brauch kommende Woche wohl Urlaub, vom Urlaub!
#86Box #Emulation #Windows #Win95 #Windows95 #RetroComputing #90er #90s #Retro #Oldschool #Vintage
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Ich gebe zu, bei dieser Retro CD-ROM hätte ich selbst mal absolut keine Idee, wofür man sie heutzutage noch benutzen könnte oder wollen würde. Aber hey, ich bin hier nur fürs Archivieren zuständig! 😜
Hier hätte ich jetzt das offizielle, deutsche Internet Explorer StarterKit für Windows 95 mit dem IE 3.02! Für Windows 3.1, Windows NT und den Macintosh ist glaub ich auch was drauf. Naja, vielleicht braucht das jemand für ein Museum oder so...
https://archive.org/details/mswin_95_de_isk
#RetroComputing #InternetExplorer #IE3 #Microsoft #Win95 #Windows95 #Oldschool #90er #90s #CDROM #StarterKit #Alt #Museum
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Ich gebe zu, bei dieser Retro CD-ROM hätte ich selbst mal absolut keine Idee, wofür man sie heutzutage noch benutzen könnte oder wollen würde. Aber hey, ich bin hier nur fürs Archivieren zuständig! 😜
Hier hätte ich jetzt das offizielle, deutsche Internet Explorer StarterKit für Windows 95 mit dem IE 3.02! Für Windows 3.1, Windows NT und den Macintosh ist glaub ich auch was drauf. Naja, vielleicht braucht das jemand für ein Museum oder so...
https://archive.org/details/mswin_95_de_isk
#RetroComputing #InternetExplorer #IE3 #Microsoft #Win95 #Windows95 #Oldschool #90er #90s #CDROM #StarterKit #Alt #Museum
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Would you look at that?! One of my USB floppy disk drives does actually support Microsoft's 1.68MB DMF diskettes! And here I was, thinking these disks were only readable by my KryoFlux controller. I guess, I was wrong! Amazing! 😃
#KryoFlux #FloppyDisk #DMF #Microsoft #Diskette #Windows95 #Win95 #RetroComputing
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Die Scans alter CD-ROMs von Kratzern, Schmutz und Staubpartikeln zu befreien, ist leider immer so eine sehr zeitaufwendige Geschichte. Bei sehr detailreichen Drucken wie in diesem Fall, umso mehr. Naja, man hat ja sonst nix zu tun... 😅
#Preservation #InternetArchive #Windows95 #Win95 #CDROM #Pixelmator
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Die volle 32-Bit Power! Nach längerer Suche hab' ich es diese Woche endlich geschafft, eine vollständige, deutsche Diskettenversion von Windows 95 zu ergattern und alle Floppies erfolgreich per KryoFlux auszulesen. Hochgeladen wurden jetzt sämtliche IMG Images und RAW Streams, sowie hochauflösende JPEG-Scans sämtlicher 19 Datenträger. Zur Vollständigkeit halber hab ich euch auch noch das Windows 95 Service Pack 1 dazugelegt.
https://archive.org/details/mswin_95_de
Viel Spaß damit ihr wahnsinnigen Nerds! 😃
#Retro #RetroComputing #RetroGaming #Win95 #Windows95 #Windows #Microsoft #32Bit #DirectX #90er #90s #Oldschool #PCGaming #IBMPC #Diskette #FloppyDisk #KryoFlux
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Dank einer freundlichen Spende konnte ich heute nun endlich die offizielle, deutschsprachige Demo-Diskette von Windows 95 im Internet Archive hochladen und teilen. Diese Demo lag damals einem 10er Pack Verbatim Leer-Disketten bei und sollte für das neue 32-Bit Windows werben. Eine ziemliche Rarität im Jahre 2026!
https://archive.org/details/win95-demo_de
Viel Spaß! 😜
#Windows #Demo #Microsoft #Windows95 #Win95 #Diskette #FloppyDisk #DiskImage #RetroComputing #Retro #90er #90s