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Windows 95 tips, tricks, and tweaks (2013)

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Oh neat! Hope this is okay to share here re: the context; but I uploaded a cache of files to spin up a Windows 95 VM in virtualbox to Archive a bit ago. Was messing around with it for a few weeks to try and get an old game my boyfriend wanted to play working that ultimately couldn't be achieved.

https://archive.org/details/win-95-vm

The .vhd is immediately bootable; just mess with the settings a bit. The .vdi requires you to patch with the FIX95CPU.iso.

Either way, documentation from the sources I used are included in the upload.

I've also had a great time installing Windows 95 into a DOSBox instance. Might be even easier than a full fledged VM.

Have you seen the Win95-in-dosbox-in-the-browser item in the archive?

If not, it's here:

https://archive.org/details/win95_in_dosbox

What is going on in those comments, wow.

Reminds me of early YouTube comments.

"I hope you stub your toe every day." Some really intense passive aggressive stuff going on there.

What game was it? Why couldn't you play it? Those usually play fine.

DK: Oz, The Magical Adventure

It wasn't so much an issue with the system but the actual game itself. The director (.dxr) files are all corrupted sadly. Tried some 'hacks' to maybe even get a peak/convert the files with very old installs of Macromedia and some extra software but came up short. The game would load - but when you're taken to the startup screen, the assets kick back an error of '..file is not director file...' and crashes :(

It's on a todo, hopefully one day I can get it going haha :')

Oh, that's too bad. Can you get it elsewhere? Maybe this will work?:

https://oldgamesdownload.com/dk-oz-the-magical-adventure/

Or maybe this?:

https://archive.org/details/DKOZadventure

There’s also a Windows 95 vm written in Electron that is a self contained .exe file that just works, with no mucking around.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17827797

This one is my favorite so far: https://64.media.tumblr.com/3117452ff1ccc9b9dd37f228300ea5f2...

It's a bit more subtle and not so in-your-face horror, which I think works out in its favor.

>Created by Neil Cicierga

Is this the same guy that makes song mashups and remixes? If so, he is one hell of a creative and high energy person.

Yes. It's the same Neil Cicierga. The link at the top goes to his personal website with mentions of his band, Lemon Demon

Oh, my daughter listens to Lemon Demon. She shared some of it and I told her she has good taste.

This, um, artwork, seems very on-brand. I like it.

Note that his work under the pseudonym Lemon Demon (from which you'd likely recognize the song The Ultimate Showdown) is almost entirely unrelated to his mashup albums (Mouth Sounds, Mouth Silence, etc), which he released under his own name. He's also the guy behind Potter Puppet Pals.

And Hyakugojuuichi! and a bunch of similar "animutations": https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EqO5lNS094M

Now get off my lawn. And give me my sweater back, or I'll play the guitar.

I'm glad someone else remembers the old arts. I used to have a big collection of my favourites in .swf form, but lost them in an OS reinstall. The youtube renders aren't the same; many animutations had secret interactive bits or hidden messages if you resized the player.

Ah, the flash era.

This is my absolutely fave one of his mashups. First time I heard it I said, "This is genius. I wish I thought of that. It makes so much sense but I just never put those two tunes together in my mind." https://youtu.be/UwHlEBlWT-4

A frighteningly high number of internet phenomena and meme styles have their roots in Neil Cic works.

Now we just need a way of splicing these into the actual Windows 95.

"Resource Hacker" should be enough to edit some strings, you just need to find the right file.

http://angusj.com/resourcehacker/

I was just watching an episode of the last season The Office (U.S.) (2012) where the guy was complaining they still had Windows 95.

Not as outrageous when you realized many people are still using windows 7, which was released more than 13 years ago.

https://64.media.tumblr.com/591356e31408f1b7b370ceeb7a584ac2... reminds me of the time when themes were called skins --- not surprisingly, there was lots of innuendo around that.

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