for geeks: http://sites.google.com/site/jamessc...edirects=0&d=1

 

This + VM = WIN...dows

 

Ok, I'm retarded. How do you mount an IMG file in VMWare?

 

I forgot about IMG files, haha

 

Add a floppy drive to the image, point the location at the .img file.

 

gosh.. I really prefer 3.1.1

 

Damn thats a sexy GUI







kinda gay color scheme actually...

 

microsoft's old logo just goatse'd us.

 

Sometimes I wish Microsoft made programmable ECUs for regular ****** like us.

 

This. Installed with 6 floppy disks, FTW!

We had something before MS-Dos, but I don't remember what it was called.

 

I think it was CP/M from Digital.

 

Now I want to play my old sierra games. I have a few still on "floppy" disc. maybe have some 5.25" floating around.

 

The 5.25" were great frizzbees

 

Anyone want to share a VM with this prebuilt on it with me?

 

I'm pretty sure you can just rename the extension .iso and it will still load.

 

I had win3.1 on a CD. Yes, I was a GOD! I could install that bitch in about 45 minutes tops <G>.

FWIW, if you guys have not ran 3.1 for a while you should load it on an old computer you have laying around. It is amazing to see an OS boot up in 2 seconds. If I could actually get some internet apps to run it would be my OS of choice...

 

Something to play on your new Windows computer (Leisure Suit Larry 5):

http://vetusware.com/download/Leisur...y%205/?id=3637

 

google.chrome.os.

 

OK, I did that and I found a video:




I'll definitely take a look at this and see what is up with it. I installed the Chrome browser when it came out and it wasn't as nice as FF so I took it back off. This looks different so I'll do some investigation. Thanks!

 

Funny you mention this, as it's something I think about all the time.

My ole C64, bless its little 1.023 MHz heart, was up and displaying the command prompt almost before your finger had left the power switch.

The Tandy 1000HX which followed it years later was a tad slower, but still came up to DOS pretty quickly. That was the last machine I owned which had the whole OS in ROM.

The Amigas were pretty quick. So long as you had a hard drive, time from power to workbench was just a few seconds.


OTOH, we've still got it pretty good compared to a lot of the Big Iron of the 70s and 80s. Booting a PDP-10 into ITS was a rather involved affair.