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No matter how hard I try, can't find a way to trigger the BSoD. There must be a way, will keep looking.

Edit: Seems it's supposed to crash on its own at random intervals for no apparent reason. It's really just like the original.

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So much to explore, and so much fun:

Defrag is a game of Snake with some old Nokia (I guess) monophonic ringtone playing in the background.

"Manifest" is a randomly-generated hilarious equation, for example: "utf8 + doge = web 3.0"

There's a Star Wars episode all in ASCII.

Inside /a/README.txt: 'Indeed, we have a "fuck the cloud" philosophy !'

Start → Run: "There's nowhere you can run..."

In "Cat Explorer" (browser) there is a bookmark under "INTERWEBZ" for "Mark Zuckerberg's homepage" that appears to be genuinely his, back when he was 15 years old: https://web.archive.org/web/20021104225654/http://www.angelf...

In some places it gets very modern though:

What If: "What if I told you / You can eat without posting it on Instagram"

In any case, no matter what you do, don't start Hydra.exe.

(And I still couldn't get the BSoD.)

There is even more. There is a selection of old Amiga demos that run in an emulator! Whoever made this stuff is a genius for putting this sprawling thing together.

>There's a Star Wars episode all in ASCII.

You can have it in your terminal too:

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

Man, it was mind-blowing back in the day to see a video streaming from a server right to your local machine in real time

Not a proper BSOD but there's an evocation. Have you tried "crazy" in the Terminal? You'll go for a 3 min ride of music with funky animation starting with a BSOD sprite. (It's probably the same as Start > Programs > crazy but as much as I liked it, I won't run it twice.)

I clicked Corglitch and my Firefox became completely unresponsive. Somewhat close, I would say.

I managed to do that too (browser freezing until I closed the tab, also in Firefox) but there's supposed to be a proper BSoD. I found a screenshot of it:

https://venturebeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/windows_9...

(It's a stylized "Error 404: The page is missing or was never written. You can see if it becomes available again.")

Found it! Open "/c/files/documents/keynotes/opening/" file and keep clicking on the next button (the triangle) until you reach the last page with "Windows 93. Are you ready?" text. Click on "Are you ready?"

Great job. Got it! And the presentation that leads to it is hilarious in itself.

How did you find it?

I wish I could say there was some complex forensics involved, but the truth is I just stumbled upon it when exploring the files on the disk.

I wonder what "global thermonuclear war" in the terminal does. It probably starts a game of Hangman or something. It would be ironic if it were a double-bluff, though.

It's tic-tac-toe but with a reference that's obscure to me ("Greetings, Professor Falken").

These are both references to the movie War Games (1983), which is excellent.

Thank you!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames

Classic 80s cyberthriller.

Thank you!

Relevant clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXzNo0vR_dU

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