I HEART WIN95!!!

[captain_slinky]

So rememer those Ozzfest tickets I was trying to get rid of a few weeks ago? Ended up trading them to the highest bidder from Craigslist - an old Toshiba Satelite laptop running Windows 95. She wasn't even sure if it works any more because her husband had formatted the hard drive way back when they had put this one in mothballs back in '98.

So I downloaded an "Evaluation Copy" of Windows 95 off The Torrents and installed that to see how it works.

MY GOODNESS is Windows 95 a nice OS! No bells! No whistles! No cryptic menus! And best of all, it plays ALL my favorite games! I currently have the old Magic: The Gathering installed, as well as Unreal Tournament and Sim City. Later on (HD Space permitting) I'll also install Warcraft and Starcraft! OOH! And the Lucasfilms old-west FPS "Outlaws"! I'VE MISSED THESE GAMES SO MUCH!!! Every time I tried to install them on Win2k or higher I've been getting weird "Virtual Device Error" messages that were too involved for me to care about fixing... but now that things install just fine I'm a Happy Slinky!

I need to track down a copy of Cyberstorm... I have fond memories of that turn-based strategy game from my very earliest memories of late-night LAN Parties at Sierra *siiiiigh*.

Comments

[wildbilltx.livejournal.com]

I had a friend who did the same thing with an older PC with an Athlon 750 to play old games.. a "retro machine" as he called it. Except his was ran Windows 98 SE instead of 95.
About the only thing I didn't like about 95 or 98 was having to find the right drivers for the soundcard and video.

[teegin.livejournal.com]

That just goes to prove my point. Operating systems are supposed to get smaller, faster, and easier to navigate not the other way round VISTA!. hint hint fucking hint.